I use readability scores to test if referees and/or editors apply higher standards to women's
writing in academic peer review. I find:(i) female-authored papers are 1-6 percent better …

Female authors are under-represented in top economics journals. In this paper, I investigate
whether higher writing standards contribute to the problem. I find that (i) female-authored …

The use of the journal impact factor for evaluation purposes has been widely challenged
because of the simplistic algorithm involved in impact factor calculation. As a result, a …

Author keywords for scientific literature are terms selected and created by authors. Although
most studies have focused on how to apply author keywords to represent their research …

Topic modelling is a powerful text mining tool that has been applied in many fields such as
software engineering, political and linguistic sciences. To evaluate the development of topic …

The Web has become a popular and important medium of transmitting information from one
place to another place. For making information accessible to all, we need to check their …

Academia is a marketplace of ideas. Just as firms market their products with packaging and
advertising, scholars market their ideas with writing. Even the best ideas will make an impact …

Recent studies found linguistic positivity bias in academic writing, that is, researchers tend to
present their works with more positive words than negative ones. The present study aims to …

To some extent, written academic discourse represents the knowledge and practices of the
academic community. Studies investigating writing styles in various disciplines have …

This study examines how the readability of scientific discourses changes over time and to
what extent readability can explain scientific impact in terms of citation counts. The basis are …