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The linguistic patterns and rhetorical structure of citation context: an approach using n-grams

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SCIENTOMETRICS
Volume 109, Issue 3, Pages 1417-1434

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-2134-8

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Content citation analysis; IMRaD; Discursive patterns; Citation function; Rhetorical structure; n-grams

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Using the full-text corpus of more than 75,000 research articles published by seven PLOS journals, this paper proposes a natural language processing approach for identifying the function of citations. Citation contexts are assigned based on the frequency of n-gram co-occurrences located near the citations. Results show that the most frequent linguistic patterns found in the citation contexts of papers vary according to their location in the IMRaD structure of scientific articles. The presence of negative citations is also dependent on this structure. This methodology offers new perspectives to locate these discursive forms according to the rhetorical structure of scientific articles, and will lead to a better understanding of the use of citations in scientific articles.

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