We invite news and articles concerning all aspects of academic and professional publishing. Papers are welcomed from across the scholarly publishing community.
Record: found
Abstract: found
Article: found
Is Open Access
Linguistic changes in the transition from summaries to abstracts: The case of the Journal of Experimental Medicine
There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.
Abstract
The introduction of Abstracts to replace article summaries in 1990 recognized changes
to linguistic reporting that have been apparent during the century. The 1970s showed
a dramatic increase in the informal language used in article abstracts and summaries.
The Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM) demonstrates an increase in first‐person
pronouns within article abstracts and summaries, but moves from singular to plural
to represent the increase in multi‐authored research works. Linguistic changes during
the century also include a greater focus on the future rather than the past, and an
increase in language that indicates ‘clout’ which signifies author self‐confidence.