Which structure of academic articles do referees pay more attention to?: perspective of peer review and full-text of academic articles
Aslib Journal of Information Management
ISSN: 2050-3806
Article publication date: 1 September 2022
Issue publication date: 30 August 2023
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore which structures of academic articles referees would pay more attention to, what specific content referees focus on, and whether the distribution of PRC is related to the citations.
Design/methodology/approach
Firstly, utilizing the feature words of section title and hierarchical attention network model (HAN) to identify the academic article structures. Secondly, analyzing the distribution of PRC in different structures according to the position information extracted by rules in PRC. Thirdly, analyzing the distribution of feature words of PRC extracted by the Chi-square test and TF-IDF in different structures. Finally, four correlation analysis methods are used to analyze whether the distribution of PRC in different structures is correlated to the citations.
Findings
The count of PRC distributed in Materials and Methods and Results section is significantly more than that in the structure of Introduction and Discussion, indicating that referees pay more attention to the Material and Methods and Results. The distribution of feature words of PRC in different structures is obviously different, which can reflect the content of referees' concern. There is no correlation between the distribution of PRC in different structures and the citations.
Research limitations/implications
Due to the differences in the way referees write peer review reports, the rules used to extract position information cannot cover all PRC.
Originality/value
The paper finds a pattern in the distribution of PRC in different academic article structures proving the long-term empirical understanding. It also provides insight into academic article writing: researchers should ensure the scientificity of methods and the reliability of results when writing academic article to obtain a high degree of recognition from referees.
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Acknowledgements
This study is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 72074113) and the opening fund of the Key Laboratory of Rich-media Knowledge Organization and Service of Digital Publishing Content (Grant No. zd2022-10/02).
Citation
Qin, C. and Zhang, C. (2023), "Which structure of academic articles do referees pay more attention to?: perspective of peer review and full-text of academic articles", Aslib Journal of Information Management, Vol. 75 No. 5, pp. 884-916. https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-05-2022-0244
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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