'Our striking results demonstrate ...': Persuasion and the growth of academic hype
'Our striking results demonstrate ...': Persuasion and the growth of academic hype
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DOI：
10.1016/j.pragma.2021.06.018
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发表时间：
2021-07-21
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Jiang, Feng (Kevin)
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作者：
Hyland, Ken;Jiang, Feng (Kevin)
今天的学者们在研究出版的巨大压力下工作，比以往任何时候都有更高的期望，更明确的激励和更激烈的竞争。在本文中，我们将探讨这是否导致作者恶意地“出售”或“炒作”他们的研究。基于过去50年来三个时期、四个学科的主要期刊上的360篇文章的语料库，我们追踪了400个“炒作”词的使用情况，这些词试图促进、美化或夸大研究论文的各个方面。我们的结果显示，这些项目的大量增加，每篇论文中的炒作数量都是原来的两倍。我们还表明，增加是最显着的硬科学和炒作显示作者更愿意展示积极的态度，强调他们的贡献和炒作研究的首要地位，方法和作者的先前研究。我们讨论这些研究结果的背景下，目前的职业压力学者。(C)2021爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
Academics today are working in a time of intense pressure in research publishing, with greater expectations, more explicit incentives and fiercer competition than ever before. In this paper we explore whether this has led authors to rhetorically 'sell' or 'hype' their studies. Based on a corpus of 360 articles in leading journals in four disciplines at three periods over the past 50 years, we trace the use of 400 ' hyping' words which seek to promote, embellish or exaggerate aspects of research papers. Our results show a massive increase in these items with twice as many hypes in every paper. We also show that increases are most marked in the hard sciences and that hyping displays a greater willingness by authors to display positive attitude, underline their contribution and to hype research primacy, methods and the author's prior research. We discuss these findings in the context of current career pressures on academics. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.