The relationship between readability and scientific impact: Evidence from emerging technology discourses
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Highlights：
• Readability analysis of 135,502 abstracts pertaining to twelve technologies.
• The language of the abstracts has become more complex over time.
• More complex texts are more likely to receive at least one citation.
• Highly-cited articles of larger discourses tend to be more complex to read.
• Scientists may have an incentive to (artificially) make their abstracts more complex to read.
摘要
•Readability analysis of 135,502 abstracts pertaining to twelve technologies.•The language of the abstracts has become more complex over time.•More complex texts are more likely to receive at least one citation.•Highly-cited articles of larger discourses tend to be more complex to read.•Scientists may have an incentive to (artificially) make their abstracts more complex to read.
论文关键词：Readability,Citations,Scientific impact,Emerging technologies
论文评审过程：Received 7 May 2021, Revised 29 December 2021, Accepted 11 January 2022, Available online 22 January 2022, Version of Record 22 January 2022.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2022.101252
