Towards a definition of the scientific paper?

Tanti, Marc

doi:10.1109/isko-maghreb.2014.7033485

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“…From biology to architecture to writing, a simple principle holds true: Form must align with function. In scientific writing, the empirical research article (RA) is the form used to communicate new, systematically tested ideas in a way that allows those ideas to be evaluated by other experts (Tanti, 2014). As a mechanism for scholarly communications, the form and structure of the RA has been the study of much research and analysis, specifically in the areas of genre classification, or successfully differentiating texts that belong to different genres, and communicative moves, or the mapping of rhetorical structure within an article section (Swales, 1981).…”

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An analysis of form and function of a research article between and within publishers and journals

Nathan¹,

Haynes²,

Meyer³

et al. 2021

Quantitative Science Studies

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The identification and subsequent analysis of research articles for machine-learning and natural language processing is a complicated task given the lack of consistent article organization principles and heading naming conventions across publishers and journals. Given this, an understanding of how research articles organizationally follow a common function and their use of various heading terms, or forms, is a critical step in applying machine-learning techniques for data and information mining across a corpus of articles. To address this need, the authors developed and implemented an article heading form and function analysis across 12 publishers including both research articles and non research articles. Our aim was to: (1) Identify each of the labelled sections used by research articles, define these sections based on their rhetorical function, and determine frequency of use; (2) Within the given dataset, determine all of the alternative labels used to identify these sections; (3) Determine whether these sections can be used to consistently determine, a) whether an article is a true research article, or b) whether an article is not a research article. Results indicated wide variability in the organization of research articles with 24 common sections, known by 186 different names both within and across publishing houses. Peer Review https://publons.com/publon/10.1162/qss_a_00135

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