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Style and substance in psychology: are influential articles more readable than less influential ones?
James Hartley1, Eric Sotto, James Pennebaker
1Department of Psychology, The University of the Texas, Austin, USA. Pennebaker@psy.utexas.edu
Social Studies of Science
|July 12, 2002
Abstract:
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).