On academic reading: citation patterns and beyond

Олейник, Антон; Кирдина, Светлана Георгиевна; Попова, Ирина Петровна; Shatalova, Tatyana

doi:10.1007/s11192-017-2466-z

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“…). Despite recent criticism (Hartley, 2016), we used the Flesch Scale in this study, as it is still widely used in quantitative studies of texts and especially scientific texts, as a marker for the differences between individual texts (Didegah, Bowman, & Holmberg, 2018;Oleinik, Kirdina-Chandler et al, 2017;Van Wesel, Wyatt, & ten Haaf, 2014).…”

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The reinstrumentalization of theDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM) in psychological publications: A citation context analysis

2021

Quantitative Science Studies

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Research instruments play significant roles in the construction of scientific knowledge, even though we have only acquired very limited knowledge about their lifecycles from quantitative studies. This paper aims to address this gap by quantitatively examining the citation contexts of an exemplary research instrument, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM), in full-text psychological publications. We investigated the relationship between the citation contexts of the DSM and its status as a valid instrument being used and described by psychological researchers. We specifically focused on how this relationship has changed over the DSM’s citation histories, especially through the temporal framework of its versions. We found that a new version of the DSM is increasingly regarded as a valid instrument after its publication; this is reflected in various key citation contexts, such as the use of hedges, attention markers, and the verb profile in sentences where the DSM is cited. We call this process the re-instrumentalization of the DSM in the space of scientific publications. Our findings bridge an important gap between quantitative and qualitative science studies and shed light on an aspect of the social process of scientific instrument development that is not addressed by the current qualitative literature.

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The reinstrumentalization of theDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM) in psychological publications: A citation context analysis

2021

Quantitative Science Studies

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“…Developed by Rudolf Franz Flesch in 1943 (Flesch, 1948), this domain-independent scale considers (1) sentence length and (2) the number of syllables to assign a corpus a score from 0 (most difficult to read) to 100 (easiest). Despite some recent criticism (Hartley, 2016), the Flesch Scale is still widely used in quantitative science studies (Didegah et al , 2018; Oleinik et al , 2017; Van Wesel et al , 2014).…”

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Relationships between method-section citation rates and citation contexts: evidence from highly cited references in psychology

2021

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PurposeThe Method section of research articles offers an important space for researchers to describe their research processes and research objects they utilize. To understand the relationship between these research materials and their representations in scientific publications, this paper offers a quantitative examination of the citation contexts of the most frequently cited references in the Method section of the paper sample, many of which belong to the category of research material objects.Design/methodology/approachIn this research, the authors assessed the extent to which these references appear in the Method section, which is regarded as an indicator of the instrumentality of the reference. The authors also examined how this central measurement is connected to its other citation contexts, such as key linguistic attributes and verbs that are used in citation sentences.FindingsThe authors found that a series of key linguistic attributes can be used to predict the instrumentality of a reference. The use of self-mention phrases and the readability score of the citances are especially strong predictors, along with boosters and hedges, the two measurements that were not included in the final model.Research limitations/implicationsThis research focuses on a single research domain, psychology, which limits the understanding of how research material objects are cited in different research domains or interdisciplinary research contexts. Moreover, this research is based on 200 frequently cited references, which are unable to represent all references cited in psychological publications.Practical implicationsWith the identified relationship between instrumental citation contexts and other characteristics of citation sentences, this research opens the possibility of more accurately identifying research material objects from scientific references, the most accessible scholarly data.Originality/valueThis is the first large-scale, quantitative analysis of the linguistic features of citations to research material objects. This study offers important baseline results for future studies focusing on scientific instruments, an increasingly important type of object involved in scientific research.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: 10.1108/OIR-03-2021-0171

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“…The subsequent discussion will be dealing with texts only, which represent a limitation of the reported results. 2 The proposed approach will be adapted and applied to the other types of items in the future.…”

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“…A text contains several ideas, being in this sense 'polyphonic.' Even a scholarly article, whose production normally follows the rule 'one article-one idea,' can include additional ideas along with a central one [2]. At best, the holistic assessment captures the most salient feature of the item, ignoring its other elements and dimensions.…”

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Detection of Opinion Communities with the Help of Chance-Corrected Measures of Agreement

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2020

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This paper discusses the feasibility and benefits of incorporating coefficients of inter-coder agreement (Krippendorff's α, Bennett, Alpert and Goldstein's S, Scott's π and Cohen's κ) into recommender systems. It is argued that with their help it is possible to increase the accuracy of users' assessment of various items (texts, but also potentially images, movies, music and goods). Chance-corrected measures of similarity also allow for the detection of similarly minded users in a more accurate manner. Results of small-scale empirical tests inform the discussion. Predictions made using chance-corrected measures of similarity are compared with those based on more conventional measures of similarity, the cosine coefficient and the Jaccard index.

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On academic reading: citation patterns and beyond

Cited by 7 publications

References 31 publications

The reinstrumentalization of theDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM) in psychological publications: A citation context analysis

The reinstrumentalization of theDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM) in psychological publications: A citation context analysis

Relationships between method-section citation rates and citation contexts: evidence from highly cited references in psychology

Detection of Opinion Communities with the Help of Chance-Corrected Measures of Agreement

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