Exploring Goodreads reviews for book impact assessment

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Highlights：

• Highly cited arts and humanities books received the most reviews. Highly cited books may also receive negative reviews.

• Goodreads authors tend to give praise while Goodreads librarians are more likely to give low ratings.

• Approximately 70% of the emotional words appear in the first sentence of the book review.

• Reviewers mostly discuss the book's content rather than its external characteristics.

摘要

•Highly cited arts and humanities books received the most reviews. Highly cited books may also receive negative reviews.•Goodreads authors tend to give praise while Goodreads librarians are more likely to give low ratings.•Approximately 70% of the emotional words appear in the first sentence of the book review.•Reviewers mostly discuss the book's content rather than its external characteristics.

论文关键词：Online book review,Altmetrics,Sentiment polarity,Reviewer role,Book impact assessment

论文评审过程：Received 23 December 2018, Revised 15 July 2019, Accepted 16 July 2019, Available online 23 August 2019, Version of Record 23 August 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2019.07.003