Metaphors among titles of medical publications: an observational study [PDF]
In this study, we attempted to determine the frequency and types of metaphors in a corpus of titles from a single medical journal collected over one year. The frequency of metaphor tokens (4.6%) was highest among editorials and other opinion articles and
Philippa Mungra
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A comparison of title words for journal articles and Wikipedia pages: Coverage and stylistic differences? [PDF]
This article assesses whether there are gaps in Wikipedia’s coverage of academic information and whether there are non-obvious stylistic differences from academic journal articles that Wikipedia users and editors should be aware of. For this, it analyses
Sud, Pardeep, Thelwall, Mike
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Character education: themes and researches. An academic literature review [PDF]
Character education is both a rooted and developing discipline. Even though there is no consensual definition, it can be widely described as a schoolbased process to promote personal development in youth, through the development of virtue, moral values ...
Pattaro, Chiara
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Students and Administrative Staff Interaction: A Socio-Cultural Competence of Pakistani English Address Forms in Academic Discourse [PDF]
This article is a part of ongoing investigation into Pakistani English addressing practices in multilingual academic discourse. The article investigates the use and choice of address forms categories used between students and administrative staff ...
Muhammad Arif Soomro
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Avoiding obscure topics and generalising findings produces higher impact research [PDF]
Much academic research is never cited and may be rarely read, indicating wasted effort from the authors, referees and publishers. One reason that an article could be ignored is that its topic is, or appears to be, too obscure to be of wide interest, even
C Chung +32 more
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Akademickie czasopisma informacyjne w katalogach OPAC, bibliotekach cyfrowych i na stronach WWW bibliotek wyższych uczelni technicznych [PDF]
Academic magazines constitute a separate specific group of titles in the offer of academic libraries. Librarians join in their electronic publishing and university publishers assume the long-term archiving of digital resources.
Knop, Urszula
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Congratulations on the 75th Anniversary of Alexei Gvishiani
This article examines the scientific achievements of the editor-in-chief of the Russian Journal of Earth Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Alexei Gvishiani, and his contribution to the field of geophysics and systems analysis.
Kedrov Ernest
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With the help of academic search engine optimization (ASEO), publications can more easily be found in academic search engines and databases. Authors can improve the ranking of their publications by adjusting titles, keywords and abstracts.
Lisa Schilhan +2 more
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Rules of thumb for deselecting, relocating, and retaining bound journals [PDF]
Purpose – Like many other academic libraries, Joyner Library at East Carolina University has experienced pressure in recent years to convert stacks space to other uses.
Shouse, Daniel, Thomas, William Joseph
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Big deal - good deal? Or is there a better deal? [PDF]
The purchase by library consortia of all journals published by one publisher - the so-called Big Deal - is bad for small publishers and for large libraries even if - in the short-term - good for large publishers and for small libraries.
Friend, Frederick J.
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