1. The context of multiple in-text references and their signification
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Iana Atanassova, Marc Bertin, Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches Appliquées en Sciences Sociales (LERASS), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires et transculturelles - UFC (EA 3224) (CRIT), Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), and Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)
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Structure (mathematical logic) ,Information retrieval ,POS tagging ,Point (typography) ,Computer science ,05 social sciences ,Section (typography) ,Context (language use) ,Library and Information Sciences ,050905 science studies ,Linguistics ,Article ,[INFO.INFO-TT]Computer Science [cs]/Document and Text Processing ,IMRaD structure ,Citation analysis ,In-text references ,Bibliometrics ,Noun ,Rhetorical question ,Multiple in-text references ,0509 other social sciences ,050904 information & library sciences ,IMRAD ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Content citation analysis - Abstract
In this paper, we consider sentences that contain multiple in-text references (MIR) and their position in the rhetorical structure of articles. We carry out the analysis of MIR in a large-scale dataset of about 80,000 research articles published by the Public Library of Science in 7 journals. We analyze two major characteristics of MIR: their positions in the IMRaD structure of articles and the number of in-text references that make up a MIR in the different journals. We show that MIR are rather frequent in all sections of the rhetorical structure. In the Introduction section, sentences containing MIR account for more than half of the sentences with references. We examine the syntactic patterns that are most used in the contexts of both multiple and single in-text references and show that they are composed, for the most part, of noun groups. We point out the specificity of the Methods section in this respect.
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- 2017
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