Abstract readability: Evidence from top-5 economics journals
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The Flesch-Kincaid score has been widely used as a proxy for textual readability in prior research.
“In prior research (Berninger et al., 2021;Rodriguez et al., 2024), this metric has been widely used as a proxy for textual readability.”
From Do Research Topics and Abstract Readability Affect Citation Impact in Leading Finance Journals? (2025) · cites this paper as Rodriguez et al., 2024
Academic paper quality may be shaped by readability.
“Academic paper quality may also be shaped by readability (Rodriguez et al., 2024).”
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Do Research Topics and Abstract Readability Affect Citation Impact in Leading Finance Journals?
Luo, Z., & Tse, Y. (2025) · Applied Finance Letters · doi:10.24135/afl.v14i.1059
- Authors
- Rodriguez, B., Huynh, K. P., Jacho-Chávez, D. T., & Sánchez-Aragón, L.
- Affiliations
- Emory University (US)
- Bank of Canada (CA)
- Venue
- Economics Letters
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2024-02
- Volume
- 235
- Pages
- 111541
- ISSN
- 0165-1765 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4390755790
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 1
- Type
- conference abstract
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Economics Letters (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Text Readability and Simplification
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Academic Writing and Publishing
- Keywords
- readability, abstracts, economics journals, women in academia, author gender, research accessibility, academic writing, gender gap in publishing
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