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Style and Substance in Psychology

Are Influential Articles More Readable than Less Influential Ones?

James Hartley

Department of Psychology, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK; fax: +44 1782 583385; j.hartley{at}psy.keele.ac.uk

Eric Sotto

Rachel Street 13, Haifa, 34401, Israel; esotto{at}netvision.net.il

James Pennebaker

Department of Psychology, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA; fax: +1 512 471 5935; Pennebaker{at}psy.utexas.edu

The results from four studies are reported separately to test the idea that influential articles in psychology will be more readable than less influential ones. This idea is upheld when the papers involved are ones that have been highly rated by fellow colleagues (Studies 1 and 2) but it is not supported when the papers involved are highly-cited journal articles (Studies 3 and 4).

Key Words: academic prose • citations • journals • readability • scientific writing

Social Studies of Science, Vol. 32, No. 2, 321-334 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0306312702032002005
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