Analyzing linguistic complexity and scientific impact

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 817-829

  Lu, Chao ^a   Bu, Yi ^b   Dong, Xianlei ^c   Wang, Jie ^d   Ding, Ying ^e   Larivière, Vincent ^f   Sugimoto, Cassidy R ^b   Paul, Logan ^b   Zhang, Chengzhi ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

English scientific writing; Lexical complexity; Lexical density; Lexical diversity; Lexical sophistication; Syntactic complexity

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; TECHNICAL WRITING;

LEXICAL COMPLEXITY; LEXICAL DIVERSITY; LEXICAL SOPHISTICATION; SCIENTIFIC WRITING; SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85071006545     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: 18755879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2019.07.004     Document Type: Article

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