Analyzing linguistic complexity and scientific impact

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Highlights：

• This paper studies the relationship between the linguistic complexity and the scientific impact of publications.

• High-impact articles usually demonstrate a moderate linguistic complexity, while low-impact ones exhibit random linguistic patterns.

• Point estimation and confidence intervals suggest that these trends are not practical significant.

摘要

•This paper studies the relationship between the linguistic complexity and the scientific impact of publications.•High-impact articles usually demonstrate a moderate linguistic complexity, while low-impact ones exhibit random linguistic patterns.•Point estimation and confidence intervals suggest that these trends are not practical significant.

论文关键词：English scientific writing,Syntactic complexity,Lexical complexity,Lexical diversity,Lexical density,Lexical sophistication

论文评审过程：Received 12 June 2018, Revised 25 July 2019, Accepted 25 July 2019, Available online 9 August 2019, Version of Record 9 August 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2019.07.004