climate: Citations of Climate Change Papers

In speegled/fosdata: Data for use with the book "Probability, Statistics, and Data: A Fresh Approach Using R", by Darrin Speegle and Bryan Clair

Citations of Climate Change Papers

Description

Does the style of writing impact the number of citations that a climate change paper receives?

Usage

climate

Format

A data frame with 732 observations of 19 variables. Description of variables mostly from the authors.

appeal

the moral or evaluative orientation of a narrative. Does the text makes an explicit appeal to the reader or a clear recommendation for action

conjunctions

the number of times that conjunctions signifying cause and effect, contrast, or temporal ordering appeared in the text.

connectivity

he number of times that words or phrases from one sentence were used to create an explicit link to the sentence immediately preceding it

narrative_perspective

whether or not the narrator referred to themselves in the text (e.g., through use of pronouns such as I, we, and our)

sensory

the number of times that sensory or emotional language appeared in the abstract

setting

whether there is a specific mention of place or time in the abstract

citations

The log of Web of Science number of citations for the articles associated with each abstract in our dataset.

year

year of publication

journal

One of "PNAS" "Proc Roy Soc B" or "Phil Trans Roy Soc B"

number_of_authors

number of authors

abstract_length

in words

abstract_number

unique identifier

normalized_citations

adjusted for length of time paper has been published. Citations per year. Not in log scale.

normalized_sensory

Sensory words per word in abstract

normalized_conjunctions

conjunctions per word in abstract

normalized_connectivity

connectivity words per word in abstract

binary_setting

1 = yes, 0 = no decision on whether setting is used

binary_appeal

1 = yes, 0 = no decision on whether appeal is made

impact

impact factor

Details

See the paper for details on how the data was collected. This data set was created using the raw data from the article together with the R script provided by the authors.

From the authors: "Peer-reviewed publications focusing on climate change are growing exponentially with the consequence that the uptake and influence of individual papers varies greatly. Here, we derive metrics of narrativity from psychology and literary theory, and use these metrics to test the hypothesis that more narrative climate change writing is more likely to be influential, using citation frequency as a proxy for influence."

Source

Hillier A, Kelly RP, Klinger T (2016) Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency in Climate Change Science. PLoS ONE 11(12): e0167983. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167983

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