| 刘宇,伍丹炜,叶继元.文本可读性与学术论文的影响力:基于图书情报学的实证研究[J].中国图书馆学报,2023,49(5):111~127 |
| Text Readability and the Impact of Academic Articles:An Empirical Study Based on Library and Information Science |
| 文本可读性与学术论文的影响力:基于图书情报学的实证研究 |
| Received:January 26, 2023 |
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| Key words:Academic evaluation Text readability |
| 中文关键词: 学术评价 文本可读性 被引次数 引文分析 学术影响力 |
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It is a classical research issue in bibliometrics that what factors affect the citation frequency of academic articles. Previous studies have mainly focused on the relationship between the content or format characteristics of articles and the citations they received,while few studies shed light on the issue from the perspective of readability,which is an integral component of the content characteristics of an academic article. A critical factor concerning the efficiency of knowledge dissemination and the recognition of the research is to what extent readability affects a reader's understanding and absorbing of the information in the article. This study aims to examine the impact of text readability of an article on the citations it received.
The articles published from 2016 to 2020 in the well known journals of Chinese library and information science were used as the research sample. The readability of the research sample was measured by the R value algorithm,which is proposed by JING Xiyu of National Kaohsiung Normal University. The R value is the most scientific readability indicator in analyzing Chinese text since it was designed to evaluate the readability of Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary school. Meanwhile,the fact that an article uses or does not use a compound title,formulas,tables,and figures was used as four complementary variables to measure the readability of the research sample. Additionally,the quality and authority characteristics of articles were under control to investigate the impact of readability on the citations of articles. The co authorship and the number of references were used as the quality indicator of an article. The journal prestige,author's job title,and institutional hierarchy were used to control the halo effect of citations received for an article. The publication age was used to control the cumulative effect of citations over time.
It has been found that the readability R value of articles,whether or not using a compound title,and the presence or absence of formulas and tables in the text has a significant impact on citation frequency,while the presence or absence of figures has no significant impact on citation frequency. The study verified that readability does play a substantial role in the impact of an article in the Chinese scientific communication context. Furthermore,the research data shows that authoritative factors,time effects,and references number have significant impact on citation frequency in the Chinese scientific context,and the impact effect is relatively robust. However,co authorship has a very limited effect on increasing citations. The results indicate that it is important for Chinese researchers to improve their academic writing skills for better readability and peer recognition as well as endeavor to publish results in higher level journals to gain more attention from the academic community. 3 tabs. 83 refs.
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哪些因素会影响学术论文的被引次数是文献计量学领域的一个经典研究议题。目前的研究主要关注论文的内容特征和形式特征与被引次数之间的关系,鲜有研究从文本可读性视角切入这一议题。文本可读性影响读者对文本内容的理解和知识吸收,是一个关乎知识传播效率和研究成果认可度的重要因素。本研究在控制论文知识品质和权威性的基础上,使用文本可读性R值等五个变量研究论文的文本可读性对被引次数的影响。以中文图书情报学知名期刊发表于2016—2020年的论文为研究样本,研究发现论文的文本可读性R值、是否采用复合式标题、是否使用公式和表格对被引次数有显著影响,而是否使用图对被引次数没有显著影响。研究验证了中文情境下文本可读性对论文影响力的实质性作用,研究结果对科研人员改善自身的中文学术写作以及提高研究成果影响力具有重要参考价值。表3。参考文献83。
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