Do research articles with more readable abstracts receive higher online attention? Evidence from Science

Jin, Tan; Duan, Huiqiong; Lu, Xiaofei; Ni, Jing; Guo, Kai

doi:10.1007/s11192-021-04112-9

Cited by 23 publications

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“…The quantitative analysis attempts an investigation of the effect of two independent variables, culture and humor style, on online viewers' attention to and appreciation of the video clips reflecting the identified humor styles and themes. Viewers' attention is usually measured through raw view counts (Jin et al, 2021). Viewers' appreciation is calculated through the percentage of 'likes' in relation to the view counts of individual video clips.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Humor Styles, Impoliteness, and Online Viewers’ Appreciation of Egyptian vs. American Pedestrian Questions: A Cross-cultural Study

Youssef¹

2022

مجلة البحث العلمی فی الآداب

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This study contributes to cross-cultural humor research in an understudied genre, namely entertaining semi-structured man-on-the-street interviews. Two entertainment shows, Egyptian ‫الشارع‬ ‫مذيع‬ /muði:ʕəʃʃae:riʕ/ 'street broadcaster' and American Pedestrian Question (PQ) segment in Jimmy Kimmel Live, pose humorous questions to random pedestrians. Within a comprehensive framework integrating three theories of humor (Superiority, Incongruity and Relief), the humor dimensions/styles (Martin et al., 2003), and Culpeper's (1996, 2005, 2011a, 2011b Model of Impoliteness, this study contrastively investigates the humor styles and themes intended through PQs in 80 YouTube video clips. Two styles have been identified in both shows: aggressive otherdeprecating and affiliative relief-based. The former, mapped to impoliteness strategies, may feed audience's feelings of superiority at the pedestrians' expense. The latter may offer the audience 'voyeuristic pleasure' while deriving relief from pedestrians' confessions, fantasies, and the daring of authority. In confessions and fantasies, PQ themes are conservative on the Egyptian show but often unorthodox on the American show. The study further explores the effect of culture and humor style on YouTube viewers' appreciation measured by percentage of likes (%Likes). The effect of culture has only been statistically significant regarding relief-based humor, where Egyptian clips have achieved more %Likes than have the American clips.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Online viewers' attention is usually measured through raw view counts (Jin et al, 2021). However, considering that the video clips under current study span eight years from 2012 to 2020, time could possibly be an extraneous variable.…”

Section: Online Viewers' Attentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Humor Styles, Impoliteness, and Online Viewers’ Appreciation of Egyptian vs. American Pedestrian Questions: A Cross-cultural Study

Youssef¹

2022

مجلة البحث العلمی فی الآداب

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“…In contrast, such practice was believed to reflect a positive image of the research quality, and therefore, make scholars feel more interested and eager to read and cite the research paper (Lu et al, 2019). However, not every researcher shares the same perspective, Jin et al (2021) argue that scholarly writers should be mindful of their non-expert readers and aim for a greater variety of readership. Their study even pointed out that the readability of a paper’s abstract had a significant impact on its online attention (Jin et al, 2021).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lexical Profile of Academic Written English Revisited: What Does it Take to Understand Scholarly Abstracts?

Nguy

2022

SAGE Open

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The abstract is an integral part of a scientific paper. Despite the importance of abstracts, very little research has investigated the vocabulary size needed to read abstracts in scientific papers. This present study analyzed the lexical profile of 26 million words from approximately 100,000 scholarly abstracts across 10 major subjects of science. The results showed that the vocabulary size of the most frequent 7,000 and 15,000 word families in the British National Corpus/Corpus of Contemporary American English (BNC/COCA) word list plus proper nouns, marginal words, transparent compounds, acronyms were needed to gain 95% and 98% coverage of the abstract corpus, respectively. However, data from cross-disciplinary analyses demonstrated significant differences in the lexical demands between abstracts of different fields of study. The 570 word families in the Academic Word List were found to make up for 13.77% of the words in the corpus. Implications for the use of abstracts in language classrooms were discussed.

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“…The online interest in papers has been found to correlate with abstract readability (Jin et al, 2021 ). Recent developments such as video summaries have also been shown to be effective in helping research studies gain traction (Zong et al, 2019 ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Starstruck by journal prestige and citation counts? On students’ bias and perceptions of trustworthiness according to clues in publication references

Eika

Sandnes

2022

Scientometrics

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Research is becoming increasingly accessible to the public via open access publications, researchers’ social media postings, outreach activities, and popular disseminations. A healthy research discourse is typified by debates, disagreements, and diverging views. Consequently, readers may rely on the information available, such as publication reference attributes and bibliometric markers, to resolve conflicts. Yet, critical voices have warned about the uncritical and one-sided use of such information to assess research. In this study we wanted to get insight into how individuals without research training place trust in research based on clues present in publication references. A questionnaire was designed to probe respondents’ perceptions of six publication attributes. A total of 148 students responded to the questionnaire of which 118 were undergraduate students (with limited experience and knowledge of research) and 27 were graduate students (with some knowledge and experience of research). The results showed that the respondents were mostly influenced by the number of citations and the recency of publication, while author names, publication type, and publication origin were less influential. There were few differences between undergraduate and graduate students, with the exception that undergraduate students more strongly favoured publications with multiple authors over publications with single authors. We discuss possible implications for teachers that incorporate research articles in their curriculum.

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Do research articles with more readable abstracts receive higher online attention? Evidence from Science

Cited by 23 publications

References 54 publications

Humor Styles, Impoliteness, and Online Viewers’ Appreciation of Egyptian vs. American Pedestrian Questions: A Cross-cultural Study

Humor Styles, Impoliteness, and Online Viewers’ Appreciation of Egyptian vs. American Pedestrian Questions: A Cross-cultural Study

Lexical Profile of Academic Written English Revisited: What Does it Take to Understand Scholarly Abstracts?

Starstruck by journal prestige and citation counts? On students’ bias and perceptions of trustworthiness according to clues in publication references

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