Year: 2023
Type: report
Abstract: The scholarly impact of academic research matters for academic promotions, influence, relevance to public policy, and others.Focusing on writing style in top-level professional journals, we examine how it changes with age, and how stylistic differences and age affect impact.As toplevel scholars age, their writing style increasingly differs from others'.The impact (measured by citations) of each contribution decreases, due to the direct effect of age and the much smaller indirect effects through style.Non-native English-speakers write in different styles from others, in ways that reduce the impact of their research.Nobel laureates' scholarly writing evinces less certainty about the conclusions of their research than that of other highly productive scholars.
DOI: 10.3386/w31150
Authors: Lea-Rachel Kosnik, Daniel Hamermesh
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4366138092