Relationship between the abstract length and citation frequency in scientific papers
Abstract is an important component of scientific papers.As one of the publicly available information in a paper,readers judge whether the paper is worth reading and downloading through the abstract.The length of the abstract and the frequency of citations are the source indicators for determining the aca-demic value of scientific papers.Therefore,this study aims to explore the relationship between the abstract length and the frequency of citations in scientific papers.The study focuses on 436 academic papers pub-lished in the first half of 2018 in Journal of Ecology,using mean research Mann Whitney U test,correla-tion analysis and other methods were used for research,and the results showed that the word count and citation frequency of scientific paper abstracts did not follow a normal distribution,and there was no linear relationship;the average citation frequency of scientific papers with shorter abstract length is higher than that of papers with moderate and longer length;there is no correlation between the two.
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