Parameters of acknowledgements in scientific articles
Year: 1999
Type: article
Abstract: Acknowledgements occupy a niche in scientific journals. What are their characteristics? For an answer, the 36 papers which constituted in large measure the author's Glasgow University M.D. Thesis were analysed. Up to 16 of them explicitly had an acknowledgement section which directly embodied thanks. Because some details recurred, there were named doctors (16 times), technical staff (9 times), medical artists (3 times) and regional librarian (once), while there were named foreign experts based in USA (thrice) and UK (twice). In the other 20 papers, there was general mention of both the receipt of surgical specimens from unrfamed doctors (11 times) and their being processed in a (free) central laboratory (8 times). The single remaining paper was a joint work of the author and two clinicians. It is concluded that, just as one should acknowledge the importance of a scientific journal based in a postgraduate institution, researchers should strive always to “Do justice to any help received”.
Author: Wilson L B. Onuigbo
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4389218759