Improving the Clarity of Journal Abstracts in Psychology

By J. Hartley. 2003

90 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Dietmar Pfahl
2. Andreas Jedlitschka
3. Phuong Dzung Pho

In History and Philosophy of Science

1. Dietmar Pfahl
2. Andreas Jedlitschka
3. Phuong Dzung Pho

Citations in the corpus

• Reporting guidelines for controlled experiments in software engineering (2005, background): “Hartley [24] found that the number of words will increase by about 30%.”
• Reporting Experiments in Software Engineering (2008, background): “With the exception of Wohlin et al. [25], who recommend a special section to describe the problem under study, most of the proposed guidelines include the description of the problem within a more comprehensive section, often labeled “Introduction”.”
• Research article abstracts in applied linguistics and educational technology: a study of linguistic realizations of rhetorical structure and authorial stance (2008, background): “As it captures the essence of the whole article, the abstract tends to be the first part of a journal article to be read (Hartley, 2003; Salager-Meyer, 1990); this is especially true in today's busy world flooded with information.”