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Multilingual research projects: Challenges for making use of standards, authority files, and character recognition ...
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Specialized terminology limits the citability of scientific papers ...
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Words are the building blocks of communicating science. As our understanding of the world progresses, scientific disciplines naturally enrich their specialized vocabulary (jargon). However, in the era of interdisciplinarity, the use of jargon may hinder effective communication amongst scientists that do not share a common scientific background. The question of how jargon limits the transmission of scientific knowledge has long been debated but rarely addressed quantitatively. We explored the relationship between the use of jargon and citations, using 21,486 articles focusing on cave research, a multidisciplinary field particularly prone to terminological specialization, and where linguistic disagreement among peers is frequent. We demonstrate a significant negative relationship between the proportion of jargon words in the title and abstract and the number of citations a paper receives. Given that these elements are the hook to readers, we urge scientists to restrict jargon to sections of the paper where its ...
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Anchialine; cave biology; FOS Other natural sciences; glossary; linguistics; scientific communication; scientific writing; Specialized vocabulary; terminology
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9w0vt4bdp http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.9w0vt4bdp
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BEYOND THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION. A CASE OF A ROMANIAN MEDICAL SCHOOL ON THE GERMAN MEDICAL EDUCATION SERVICES MARKET ...
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Phylomemetic Tree of Internet Memes (Neo-Lamarckian Model) ...
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Phylomemetic Tree of Internet Memes (Neo-Lamarckian Model) ...
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BEYOND THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION. A CASE OF A ROMANIAN MEDICAL SCHOOL ON THE GERMAN MEDICAL EDUCATION SERVICES MARKET ...
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Swedish youths as listeners of global Englishes speakers with diverse accents: Listener intelligibility, listener comprehensibility, accentedness perception, and accentedness acceptance ...
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Swedish youths as listeners of global Englishes speakers with diverse accents: Listener intelligibility, listener comprehensibility, accentedness perception, and accentedness acceptance ...
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Plagiarism in higher education across nations: a case of language students ...
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Plagiarism in higher education across nations: a case of language students ...
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Analysis of the ratio of um to of in the earlier vs. later component texts of Sturlunga saga ...
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Analysis of the ratio of um to of in the earlier vs. later component texts of Sturlunga saga ...
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4A: Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics #3 ...
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1A: Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics #1 ...
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Judgement of political statements are influenced by speaker identity ...
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Emotion, communication and social change in Italian second-generation migrants: Karima 2G ...
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A distinct marker of completion and inadvertence within the tense-aspect-evidentiality-system of Khalkha Mongolian ...
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In Search of Spaces of Their Own: Woolf, Feminism and Women’s Poetry from China. ...
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