Does Journal Indexation Matter? A Genre-Approach Move Analysis of Nursing English Research Article Abstracts

Abstract

Background. A plethora of previous studies have discussed the importance of a genre-approach move analysis because the analysis results can provide a picture of the typical conventions of research article writing across disciplines.
 Purpose. Nursing as a professional discipline, however, has received scant attention, particularly in the abstract section in the journals with different indexation. To fill such an empirical void, this qualitative study probes the notion of whether journal indexation matters in manifesting the rhetorical moves in the nursing abstracts.
 Methods. Fifty abstracts from a Scopus-indexed Q1 journal and another 50 from three Sinta-indexed journals in Indonesia were analyzed manually. This study employed a descriptive comparative approach to analyze and present the data.
 Findings. The findings demonstrated conformity manifestations of method and results moves along with their linguistic realizations by using simple past tense in active or passive forms. The article abstracts from the Scopus-indexed nursing journal emphasized the novelty of the research more than their counterparts from the identification of gap of previous research and highlighting the significance of the study.
 Implications. This study suggests writers consider the contributing role of journal indexation type in projecting a higher standard of abstract writing in preparing their abstracts to increase the acceptance rate during an initial screening stage.

Rhetorical Moves Analysis on Scopus-Indexed Research Article Abstracts by National and International Authors

“…However, the proportions of steps' occurrence, particularly that of Step 4 of Move 1 and Step 3 of Move 3 was evidently significant in favor of the national authors' abstracts. Two additional steps outside the sub-communicative stages proposed by Hyland (2000) were found and labeled with the extended model by Lubis and Kurniawan (2020) due to the convenient description of the said steps.…”

“…Despite the low recorded proportions, the occurrences of these new steps may potentially spark a new trend and chart new horizons in abstracts' rhetorical organizations. Additionally, the emergence of the previously unclassified subcommunicative stages may indicate the eligibility of Hyland's (2000) extended model proposed by Lubis and Kurniawan (2020)…”

“…Swales and Feak (2009), who also analyzed multi-disciplines research article abstracts, also proposed a five-move configuration extending Swales' (1990) model consisting of Introduction, Purpose, Method, Results, and Conclusion. Additionally, Lubis and Kurniawan (2020) proposed their configuration which was based on Hyland's (2000) model with slight tweaks and modifications on the subcommunicative units or steps.…”

A Comparative Move Analysis of Religious Sermons by Influential Female and Male Islamic Scholars

“…To date, genre analysis based on the theoretical framework of Swales (1981Swales ( , 1990Swales ( , 2004 focuses more on scientific article research, such as Bhatia (2002), Biber, Connor, and Upton (2007), Bunton (2005), Davis (2015), Hardjanto (1997Hardjanto ( , 2016aHardjanto ( , 2016bHardjanto ( , 2017, Khansari (2016), Kurniawan, Lubis, Suherdi, and Danuwijaya (2019), Lubis and Kurniawan (2022), Pho (2013), Pratiwi and Kurniawan (2021), Samraj (2002Samraj ( , 2005, and Suherdi, Kurniawan, and Lubis (2021).…”