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| Title |
Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency in Climate Change Science
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, December 2016
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0167983 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ann Hillier, Ryan P. Kelly, Terrie Klinger |
| Abstract |
Peer-reviewed publications focusing on climate change are growing exponentially with the consequence that the uptake and influence of individual papers varies greatly. Here, we derive metrics of narrativity from psychology and literary theory, and use these metrics to test the hypothesis that more narrative climate change writing is more likely to be influential, using citation frequency as a proxy for influence. From a sample of 732 scientific abstracts drawn from the climate change literature, we find that articles with more narrative abstracts are cited more often. This effect is closely associated with journal identity: higher-impact journals tend to feature more narrative articles, and these articles tend to be cited more often. These results suggest that writing in a more narrative style increases the uptake and influence of articles in climate literature, and perhaps in scientific literature more broadly. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 788 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 213 | 27% |
| United Kingdom | 61 | 8% |
| Canada | 52 | 7% |
| Spain | 32 | 4% |
| Australia | 29 | 4% |
| Germany | 16 | 2% |
| France | 11 | 1% |
| Chile | 9 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 7 | <1% |
| Other | 95 | 12% |
| Unknown | 263 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 409 | 52% |
| Scientists | 321 | 41% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 40 | 5% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 18 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 319 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 2% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 307 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 72 | 23% |
| Student > Master | 61 | 19% |
| Researcher | 60 | 19% |
| Other | 21 | 7% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 5% |
| Other | 57 | 18% |
| Unknown | 31 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 63 | 20% |
| Environmental Science | 41 | 13% |
| Social Sciences | 29 | 9% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 23 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 15 | 5% |
| Other | 97 | 30% |
| Unknown | 51 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 717. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 March 2024.
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