Corpus Colossal: A Bibliometric Analysis of Neuroscience Abstracts and Impact Factor.

ABSTRACT: A field's priorities are reflected by the contents of its high-impact journals. Researchers in turn may choose to pursue research objectives based on what is believed to be most highly valued by their peers. However, these assessments of the field's priorities are often subjective, owing to a lack of formal quantification of high-impact journals' contents. By compiling a corpus of abstracts from within the field neuroscience, I was able to analyze which terms had differential frequencies between 13 high-impact and 14 medium-impact journals. Approximately 50,000 neuroscience abstracts were analyzed over the years 2014-2018. Several broad trends emerged from the analysis of which terms were biased toward high-impact journals. Generally speaking, high-impact journals tended to feature: geneti

SUBMITTER: Kenkel WM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6618901 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature