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Citations in Scientific Texts: Do Social Relations Matter?

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This article presents an investigation of the role of social relations in the writing of scientific articles through the study of in-text citations. Does the fact that the author of an article knows the author whose work he or she cites have an impact on the context of the citation? Since citations are commonly used as criteria for research evaluation, it is important to question their social background to better understand how it impacts textual features. We studied a collection of science articles (N=123) from five disciplines and interviewed their authors (N=84) in order to: 1) identify the social relations between citing and cited authors; and 2) measure the correlation between a set of features related to in-text citations (N=6,956) and the identified social relations. Our pioneering work, mixing sociological and linguistic results, shows that social relations between authors can partly explain the variations of citations in terms of frequency, position and textual context.
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hal-01907377 , version 1 (29-10-2018)

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Béatrice Milard, Ludovic Tanguy. Citations in Scientific Texts: Do Social Relations Matter?. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2018, 69 (11), pp.1380-1395. ⟨10.1002/asi.24061⟩. ⟨hal-01907377⟩
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