The advantage of simple paper abstracts

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Highlights：

• We investigate whether or not the style of a scientific paper's abstract bears any relation to the number of times that paper is cited.

• We find that papers whose abstracts contain more frequently used words tend to receive slightly more citations.

• We find that journals which publish papers whose abstracts are shorter and contain more frequently used words receive slightly more citations per paper.

摘要

Highlights•We investigate whether or not the style of a scientific paper's abstract bears any relation to the number of times that paper is cited.•We find that papers whose abstracts contain more frequently used words tend to receive slightly more citations.•We find that journals which publish papers whose abstracts are shorter and contain more frequently used words receive slightly more citations per paper.

论文关键词：Citation analysis,Scientific writing,Computational social science,Science of science

论文评审过程：Received 16 June 2015, Revised 1 November 2015, Accepted 1 November 2015, Available online 13 December 2015, Version of Record 13 December 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2015.11.001