1. Temporal Properties of Recurring In-text References
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Marc Bertin, Iana Atanassova, Centre Interuniversitaire de Rercherche sur la Science et la Technologie ( CIRST ), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires et transculturelles - UFC ( CRIT ), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté ( UBFC ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ), Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires et transculturelles - UFC (EA 3224) (CRIT), Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Centre Interuniversitaire de Rercherche sur la Science et la Technologie (CIRST), and Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM)
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0301 basic medicine ,Structure (mathematical logic) ,[ INFO.INFO-DL ] Computer Science [cs]/Digital Libraries [cs.DL] ,[ INFO.INFO-TT ] Computer Science [cs]/Document and Text Processing ,Operations research ,Computer science ,05 social sciences ,Section (typography) ,Library and Information Sciences ,[INFO.INFO-CL]Computer Science [cs]/Computation and Language [cs.CL] ,Linguistics ,[INFO.INFO-TT]Computer Science [cs]/Document and Text Processing ,03 medical and health sciences ,030104 developmental biology ,Rhetorical question ,[INFO.INFO-DL]Computer Science [cs]/Digital Libraries [cs.DL] ,[ INFO.INFO-CL ] Computer Science [cs]/Computation and Language [cs.CL] ,0509 other social sciences ,050904 information & library sciences ,IMRAD ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - Abstract
In this paper we study the properties of recurring in-text references in research articles and more specifically their positions in the rhetorical structure of articles and their age with respect to the citing article. We have processed a large scale corpus of approximately 80,000 papers published by PLOS (Public Library of Science). We examine the number and types of recurring in-text references, as well as their age according to positions in the IMRaD structure. (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion). The results show that the age of recurring references varies considerably in all sections and journals. While they are especially dense in the Introduction section, most of them reappear in the beginning of the Results and the Discussion sections. We also observe that the beginning of the Methods and the Results sections share a significant number of recurring references.
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- 2016
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