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- Quality, Information Architecture, User-Generated Content, Citation Behavior

In this celebration of Philip Shaw's 65th year, we present a study of three types of butterfly books: a monograph with national coverage, a field guide with national coverage and a field guide with Europe-wide coverage. We sample these in both English and Swedish. This topic is chosen partly because the honoree is an enthusiastic butterfly watcher-cum-photographer and partly because natural history volumes have received very little attention from rhetoricians and discourse analysts. All six volumes use words and pictures to aid the identification of butterflies, by teaching observers the field marks that can operate to align tokens with types. However, beyond this, differences emerge by studying the various treatments of a single sample species-the Silver-washed Fritillary. Only one, the English-language European guide, uses a highly condensed style with many abbreviations and sentence fragments. The other five employ standard prose. However, the two English-language volumes differ from their Swedish counterparts in one important respect: the former employ considerably more evaluative and aesthetically-charged language, as well as a much more concerned voice regarding environmental changes and declines in butterfly populations. This difference would seem to be relatable to differences in rhetorical conventions and in the status of butterflies in the British Isles and Sweden.

Abstract. References to other scholars’ work is an important component of research writing, and one which requires careful attention in order to convey the writer’s stance toward the reported propositions and their relationship to each other and to the writer’s own work. Second language writers often find it difficult to master the skill of selecting appropriate forms for reporting verbs, and this is an area in which English for Academic Purposes (EAP) materials and teachers are called upon to provide guidance. However, accounts of reporting verb usage have demonstrated that this is a complex area, and simple prescriptions or proscriptions are not sufficient: appropriate choices are dependent on the relationship between form and function, both locally and globally in the citing text. The present paper extends the existing research literature on reporting verbs by examining some of the factors which guide the citing writer’s choices. Implications for the EAP classroom are also taken up.

Homing in on the segregated culture of early modern En-glish domestic criticism as its primary example, this article explores how white voices and "white logic" have dominated reading practices in early modern English studies, and academia in general, for some time-often without critique. In different ways, those voices and viewpoints have left little to no room at the metaphorical scholarly table for influencers of a different hue, thus rendering visible in the field and profession the existence of the "color line," as W. E. B. Du Bois called it. With an antiracist agenda that embraces the goals of Black feminism, Brown thinks through the continued disconnect between domestic criticism and premodern critical race studies, a disconnect that denotes a representative pattern. Specifically, Brown highlights how whiteness goes unexamined critically, a fact that is surprising since the domestic sphere is, and was, a formative space where processes of racialization occur, processes informing the centuries-old racism that persists in the post-Obama era, or the post-postracial era: a time where anti-blackness and related violence (physical, verbal/rhetorical, psychological, emotional) is hypervisible. Encouraging readers to be(come) "accomplice feminists," Brown calls for the decentering of whiteness and the desegregation of scholarly discourse and citational practices.

- by David Sterling Brown
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- Race and Racism, Critical Race Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Domesticity

Scientific self-evaluation practices are increasingly built on citation counts. Citation practices for the top journals in economics, psychology, and statistics illustrate article characteristics that influence citation frequencies. Citation counts differ between the investigated disciplines, with economics attracting the most citations and statistics the least. Although articles in statistics are cited less frequently, its proportion of uncited articles is the smallest of all three disciplines. Academic authorship characteristics clearly influence the number of citations. Having authors alphabetically ordered, a practice differently present in the investigated disciplines, increases citations. Further, the more authors there are, the more the article is cited, and a first author with a common surname has positive effects on citation counts, whereas two or more authors sharing a surname attracts fewer citations. In addition, the shorter the article's title, the higher the number of citations.

- by Philipp E Otto
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- Citation Behavior, Authorship, Citation Indicators

This study complicates one part of the scholarly legend that Gottlob Christian Storr infused the Kantian letter with an Orthodox spirit. In §§17-18 of his DC, Storr positions Immanuel Kant’s physico-theological and moral arguments for rational belief in God within an argument for the divine authority of Scripture—on which he suggests the reliability of the book’s dogmatic statements rest. By foregrounding some versions of Kant’s arguments (while hiding others) and by illegitimately drawing biblical-theological conclusions from transcendental and limited-speculative premises, the scholarly story goes, Storr made it seem as if Lutheran Orthodoxy follows from Kant’s arguments for rational belief in God. I argue rather that Storr put Kant’s arguments in the mouth of reason—construed as a figure in a traditional Lutheran story of transformation. In this story—told from a post-transformation perspective—reason’s awareness of God is both transformed by an encounter with Word and it is a placeholder that makes a comparison between ‘pre’ and ‘post’ transformation visible. In this encounter with Word, reason comes to trust that the God who is able to help is also willing to help, and to trust that the God who reveals his willingness to help is also the divine Author of Scripture. Because Kant’s arguments—on Kant’s own terms—concern only reason’s Because Kant’s arguments—on Kant’s own terms—concern only reason’s rational belief in a God who is able to see the secrets of our hearts and are cognitive symbolic, Storr is able (while keeping within the bounds of the Lutheran dogmatics genre) to (re)present them as symbolic summaries of Scripture (i.e., as dogmatic statements) that harmonize neatly with reason’s self-understanding. Storr does not cherry-pick the Kantian words that support his cause, but exploits the compatibility of Kant’s heuristic language with the Lutheran heuristic. And he does not cast methodological rigor aside so much as he incorporates Kant’s arguments into a Lutheran rule for hierarchically combining human- relative modes of argumentation and measures of reliability with divine or Scripture- relative modes and measures. While he owes much to sixteenth-century thinking, Storr answers a pressing question of the late eighteenth-century: how to reliably bring together multiple modes of argumentation and measures of reliability.

- by Stiles Alexander
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- Aesthetics, Composition and Rhetoric, Book History, Philosophical Theology

Although expert and student citation behaviors have been explored in different genres,
doctoral students' citation behaviors in grant proposal writing have so far not been subject
to investigation. This paper reports on an exploratory study involving six doctoral students
in education at a research-intensive Canadian university. The participants commented on
the citations they used in their grant proposals submitted to a federal funding agency. The
qualitative data analysis yielded five citation functions (to claim knowledge, to seek support,
to claim importance, to establish a territory, and to claim competence), which are akin to the
rhetorical moves identified in previous research on scholars' grant writing. These five
citation functions are predominantly accompanied with three strategies (to emulate other
writers, to follow professors' suggestions, and to mask unfamiliarity with the topic), which are
indices of a student identity underlying the above five rhetorical acts. We discuss how the
doctoral students in the study deployed these rhetorical functions and strategies as
gambits to project a scholarly identity in their grant proposal writing, and conclude with
implications for teaching and further research.

- by Ismaeil Fazel
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- Grant Writing, Citation Behavior, Academic discourse socialization

As novice members of their academic discourse communities, postgraduates face the challenge of learning to write in ways which will be judged as appropriate by those communities. Two resources in this effort are students' own observations of the features of published texts in their disciplines, and feedback on their texts from teachers and advisors. These resources depend, though, on the extent to which textual features can be observed. Swales (1996) has noted the existence of occluded academic genres. The notion of occlusion is extended here to refer to the features of academic texts which are not ordinarily visible to the reader. One important area of occlusion is citation and, specifically, the relationship between a reference to a source and the source itself. This article reports the findings of an investigation into three visible and occluded features of postgraduate second-language writing. The novice writers in this study were found to respond to their disciplines' expectations in terms of the visible aspects of source use, but with regard to the occluded features their writing diverged considerably from received disciplinary norms. The findings also suggest that, with respect to disciplinary norms, a gap may exist between what is prescribed and what is practiced.

We address issues concerning what one may learn from how citation instances are distributed in scientific articles. We visualize and analyze patterns of citation distributions in the full text of 350 articles published in the Journal of Informetrics. In particular, we visualize and analyze the distributions of citations in articles that are organized in a commonly seen four-section structure, namely, introduction, method, results, and conclusions (IMRC). We examine the locations of citations to the groundbreaking h-index paper by Hirsch in 2005 and how patterns associated with citation locations evolve over time. The results show that citations are highly concentrated in the first section of an article. The density of citations in the first section is about three times higher than that in subsequent sections. The distributions of citations to highly cited papers are even more uneven.

- by 志刚胡
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- Scientometrics, Citation Behavior, Citation context analysis, Citation Analysis

Citation counts take years to accumulate but you can help boost your citations in a number of different ways. Here are my tips and strategies that I personally use and that I know work. It probably goes without saying that the more you write and publish, the greater the number of citations. However, here are my top ten tips, based on a number of review papers on the topic

- by Mark D Griffiths
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- Bibliometrics, Citation Behavior, Bibliometric and citation analysis, Citation

Entre las especies de mosquitos (Diptera: Culicidae) sinantrópicos que existen en la región de las Américas, tres desempeñan un papel protagónico en la transmisión de enfermedades de importancia médica en países de bajos y medios ingresos (LMIC): Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus y Culex quinquefasciatus. Con el objetivo de caracterizar la infestación domiciliar de estos mosquitos, se realizó un estudio entomológico en el municipio de Jutiapa (Guatemala) y Jarabacoa (República Dominicana), ambos incluidos

- by Li Rita
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- Civil Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Architecture, Construction Technology

To build a reputation through publication, academics have to do more than simply develop their own contribution to the discipline. They must also become conversant with the rhetorical conventions and epistemological assumptions of the discourse community, and learn to manage relationships with its other members. The appropriate management of citations is an important aspect of this process. Although citations are ostensibly used to link the writer's present arguments to previous research, they also appear to have a function in signalling community membership. In this, the actual language of the works cited is of particular interest. It is known that US and UK scholars make scant use of material not published in English. However, it is striking that academics based in expanding circle countries also rarely appear to refer to papers published in other languages. This paper reports on a study of leading journals within the social and applied sciences, showing that few publications in languages other than English are cited. A cluster of issues that might motivate this trend are discussed, including possible information loss, the ambition to construct an international professional identity, trends in higher education, the power balance in the discourse community, and fear of rejection by leading journals.

- by Christian Wildberg
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- Simplicius, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Citation Behavior, Anaximander

The construction industry contributes significantly to economic development worldwide, yet it is one of the most hazardous industries where numerous accidents and fatalities happen every year. Little research to date has shed light on the impact of economic development on construction safety research. In this paper, we conduct an analysis of construction safety articles published in the 21st century via a bibliometrics approach. We have analysed: (1) construction safety in developed and developing countries; (2) the major organisations that have conducted construction safety research; (3) authors and territories of the research and (4) topics in construction safety and future research directions. The largest number of published construction safety documents were published by scholars from the US and China; the total number of published articles by these two countries was 1,125, at 56% of the 2000 articles that were published. Both countries showed high levels of research collaboration. While our results suggest that economic development may drive academic construction safety research, there has been an increase in construction safety research conducted by developing countries in recent years, probably due to an improvement in their economic development. While authors' keywords evidenced the popularity of research on safety management and climate, the network analysis on all keywords, i.e. keywords given by Web of Science and authors, suggest that construction safety research focused on three areas: construction safety management, the relationship between people and construction safety, and the protection and health of workers' impact on construction safety. We found that there is a new interdisciplinary research trend where construction safety combines with digital technologies, with the largest number involving deep learning. Other trends focus on machine learning, Building Information Modelling, machine learning and visualisation.

How to come up with a killer journal article title. Don’t forget
the colon.

- by Tim Moore
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- Languages and Linguistics, Academic Writing, Intertextuality, Academic Literacies

Purpose
The primary goal of this study is to sensitize researchers of qualitative citation patterns that characterize original research, contribute toward the growth of knowledge, and ultimately, scientific progress.
Design/methodology/approach
This study describes how ideas are intertextually inserted into citing works to create new concepts and theories, thereby contributing to the growth of knowledge. By combining existing perspectives and dimensions of citations with Foucauldian theory, this study develops a typology of qualitative citation patterns for the growth of knowledge and uses examples from two classic works to illustrate how these citation patterns can be identified and applied.
Findings
A clearer understanding of the motivations behind citations becomes possible by focusing on the qualitative patterns of citations rather than on their quantitative features. The proposed typology includes the following patterns: original, conceptual, organic, juxtapositional, peripheral, persuasive, acknowledgment, perfunctory, inconsistent, and plagiaristic.
Originality/value
In contrast to quantitative evaluations of the role and value of citations, this study focuses on the qualitative characteristics of citations, in the form of specific patterns of citations that engender original and novel research and those that may not. By integrating Foucauldian analysis of discourse with existing theories of citations, this study offers a more nuanced and refined typology of citations that can be used by researchers to gain a deeper semantic understanding of citations.

- by Nik Rushdi Hassan
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- Discourse Analysis, Knowledge Management, Knowledge sharing, Discourse Markers

Even as we advance the frontiers of physics knowledge, our understanding of how this knowledge evolves remains at the descriptive levels of Popper and Kuhn. Using the Ameri-can Physical Society (APS) publications data sets, we ask in this paper how new knowledge is built upon old knowledge. We do so by constructing year-to-year bibliographic coupling networks, and identify in them validated communities that represent different research fields. We then visualize their evolutionary relationships in the form of alluvial diagrams, and show how they remain intact through APS journal splits. Quantitatively, we see that most fields undergo weak Popperian mixing, and it is rare for a field to remain isolated/undergo strong mixing. The sizes of fields obey a simple linear growth with recombination. We can also reliably predict the merging between two fields, but not for the considerably more complex splitting. Finally, we report a case study of two fields that underwent repeated merging and splitting around 1995, and how these Kuhnian events are correlated with breakthroughs on Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), quantum teleportation, and slow light. This impact showed up quantitatively in the citations of the BEC field as a larger proportion of references from during and shortly after these events.

I describe a simple modification which can be applied to any citation count-based index (e.g. Hirsch's h-index) quantifying a researcher's publication output. The key idea behind the proposed approach is that the merit for the citations of a paper should be distributed amongst its authors according to their relative contributions. In addition to producing inherently fairer metrics I show that the proposed modification has the potential to partially normalize for the unfair effects of honorary authorship and thus discourage this practice.

- by Ognjen Arandjelovic
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- Engineering, Physiology, Clinical Psychology, Mathematics

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to sensitize researchers to qualitative citation patterns that characterize original research, contribute toward the growth of knowledge and, ultimately, promote scientific progress. Design/methodology/approach This study describes how ideas are intertextually inserted into citing works to create new concepts and theories, thereby contributing to the growth of knowledge. By combining existing perspectives and dimensions of citations with Foucauldian theory, this study develops a typology of qualitative citation patterns for the growth of knowledge and uses examples from two classic works to illustrate how these citation patterns can be identified and applied. Findings A clearer understanding of the motivations behind citations becomes possible by focusing on the qualitative patterns of citations rather than on their quantitative features. The proposed typology includes the following patterns: original, conceptual, organic, juxtapositional, periph...

- by Nik Rushdi Hassan
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- Discourse Analysis, Sociology, Computer Science, Knowledge Management

In a society experiencing information overload, and an increasingly demanding and competitive academic environment, it is vital that scholars take steps to promote access to their own research. In this talk I explain why we should spend time and resources on disseminating our research, engage with some of the reasons why scholars might not want to do so, explain some strategies for maximising electronic research dissemination, and produce evidence to show that these techniques work. This is an improved version of a talk I gave at the School of East Asian Studies Research Awayday on 29 January 2015.

SUMMARY. Scholars spend a considerable amount of time reflecting upon their professional work. When individuals decide to communicate their professional thoughts beyond informal venues, the penultimate expression of their reflection is the peer reviewed journal article. The study reported here entailed a bibliometric analysis of articles appearing in the journal Social Work in Health Care during the 1990s, in order to better understand what happens to our ideas after they appear in a peer reviewed journal article.

- by Gary Holden
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- Social Work, Bibliometrics, Social Work Education, Citation Behavior

Scholars spend a considerable amount of time reflecting upon their professional work. When individuals decide to communicate their professional thoughts beyond informal venues, the penultimate expression of their reflection is the peer reviewed journal article. The study reported here entailed a bibliometric analysis of articles appearing in the journal Social Work in Health Care during the 1990s, in order to better understand what happens to our ideas after they appear in a peer reviewed journal article.

- by Gary Holden
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- Social Work, Bibliometrics, Health Care, Sociology of Science

There is high pressure for early
career scientists to publish in high
impact journals, but rejection rates
have exceeded 90% in the highestimpact
journals. There is a high
opportunity cost, in citations, of a
publication delay, not to mention the
possibility of getting scooped by a
competitor. Scientists need to be
more strategic about their journals
of first choice, steadily building a
portfolio of good papers in a diversity
of good-fit journals, rather than
succumbing to the winner-take-all
mentality of submitting everything to
a handful of high-impact and highrejection
journals, losing precious
time, energy, morale, papers, and
citations to the worsening rejectionresubmission
cycle.

- by Cagan Sekercioglu
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- Education, Social Sciences, Bibliometrics, Academic Writing

There is something queer (by which we mean strange) going on in the scholarly practice of political science. Why are political science scholars continuing to disregard issues of gender and sexuality—and in particular queer theory—in their lecture theatres, seminar rooms, textbooks, and journal articles? Such everyday issues around common human experience are considered by other social scientists to be central to the practice and theory of social relations. In this article we discuss how these commonplace issues are being written out of (or, more accurately, have never been written in to) contemporary political science. First, we present and discuss our findings on citation practice in order to evidence the queerness of what does and does not get cited in political science scholarship. We then go on to critique this practice before suggesting a broader agenda for the analysis of the political based on a queer theoretical approach.

- by Donna Lee
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- Gender Studies, Marxism, Queer Theory, Political Science

Scholarship is that process of becoming familiar with, ordering, and acknowledging the thinking of earlier workers in a particular line of inquiry. It can easily become a lifetime task. The process is obviously valuable. Subduing the arrogance of an ignorant mind (especially one's own) is very healthy. Scholarship not only helps to avoid past mistakes and save the waste of "reinventing the wheel", but can also be a stimulus for new and more sophisticated ideas about a topic. However, the largest body of scholarship always remains inert, not only failing to stimulate new ideas, but actually forming a bulwark against the intrusion of fresh thinking...

- by Thorold (Thor) May
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- Intellectual History, Cultural History, Psychology, Organizational Psychology
- by June Wang
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- History, Human Geography, Geopolitics, Contemporary China

China has long positioned itself as the ancient civilization of the Far East, which only makes geographical sense through the lens of the West. The literature on China resonates with this geographic illustration, about which, critical scholars have cautioned against the imperial hegemony of Eurocentric knowledge.
In this paper, we attempt to answer the call for a Global East through the situated agency of the others in the geopolitics of knowledge circulation. We argue for a research frame that integrates the circulation of knowledge and mimicry -- the circulation of knowledge foregrounds transnational flows in a multifaceted and multidirectional process, whereas mimicry calls for attention to political/ soft subversions beneath the camouflaged behavior of coping.
By investigating scholarship on the particular topic of shanzhai, we probe into two layers of knowledge production: how the variegated scholarly citation behaviors reflect the situated agency that bears the effects of asymmetric power relations formed through multiple flows of people, idea, and capital, but nonetheless demonstrates an endeavor of autonomy.

- by June Wang
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- Contemporary China, Citation Behavior, Politics of knowledge production, Mimicry

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В мировой научной сети Academia.edu, где зарегистрировано 51,328,813 Academics,мы стали обладателями последовательно шести виртуальных кубков, находясь в числе наиболее читаемых учёных:
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- by Oleg Latyshev
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- Citation Behavior, Citation context analysis, Citation Databases, Citations

There is something queer (by which we mean strange) going on in the scholarly practice of political science. Why are political science scholars continuing to disregard issues of gender and sexuality-and in particular queer theory-in their lecture theatres, seminar rooms, textbooks, and journal articles? Such everyday issues around common human experience are considered by other social scientists to be central to the practice and theory of social relations. In this article we discuss how these commonplace issues are being written out of (or, more accurately, have never been written in to) contemporary political science. First, we present and discuss our findings on citation practice in order to evidence the queerness of what does and does not get cited in political science scholarship. We then go on to critique this practice before suggesting a broader agenda for the analysis of the political based on a queer theoretical approach.

- by Donna Lee
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- Discourse Analysis, Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Marxism

Political science research aims for greater transparency. Authors are increasingly expected to share their data and methodology so that readers and reviewers can follow their line of argument and replicate their findings. However, citations of books, articles, and other secondary sources in the discipline are still predominantly general, referring to entire works rather than specific parts of them. This article addresses the problem of the overuse of general citations as a disciplinary norm in political science. An analysis of articles published in five top-tier journals in 2019 reveals that only around 10% of the citations in these articles provide detailed source information (e.g., page numbers and location information) and identifies some of the causes for this scarcity. The article calls for more transparent citation norms in the discipline, suggests preliminary steps toward this goal, and proposes solutions for the challenges posed by the increasing use of digital sources.

- by Jonathan Grossman
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- Epistemology, Humanities, Social Sciences, Bibliometrics
- by Atefeh Kalantari
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- Citation Behavior, Publication Patterns