Marketing data: Has the rise of impact factor led to the fall of objective language in the scientific article?

The language of science should be objective and detached and should place data in the appropriate context. The aim of this commentary was to explore the notion that recent trends in the use of language have led to a loss of objectivity in the presentation of scientific data. The relationship between...

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Autores principales: Fraser, Véronique J, Martin, James G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2685417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19432970
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-10-35
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description The language of science should be objective and detached and should place data in the appropriate context. The aim of this commentary was to explore the notion that recent trends in the use of language have led to a loss of objectivity in the presentation of scientific data. The relationship between the value-laden vocabulary and impact factor among fundamental biomedical research and clinical journals has been explored. It appears that fundamental research journals of high impact factors have experienced a rise in value-laden terms in the past 25 years.
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spelling pubmed-26854172009-05-22 Marketing data: Has the rise of impact factor led to the fall of objective language in the scientific article? Fraser, Véronique J Martin, James G Respir Res Commentary The language of science should be objective and detached and should place data in the appropriate context. The aim of this commentary was to explore the notion that recent trends in the use of language have led to a loss of objectivity in the presentation of scientific data. The relationship between the value-laden vocabulary and impact factor among fundamental biomedical research and clinical journals has been explored. It appears that fundamental research journals of high impact factors have experienced a rise in value-laden terms in the past 25 years. BioMed Central 2009 2009-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2685417/ /pubmed/19432970 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-10-35 Text en Copyright © 2009 Fraser and Martin; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Marketing data: Has the rise of impact factor led to the fall of objective language in the scientific article?
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title_short Marketing data: Has the rise of impact factor led to the fall of objective language in the scientific article?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2685417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19432970
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-10-35
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