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Hyland, ken and Feng (Kevin) Jiang. 2019. Points of Reference: Changing Patterns of Academic Citation. Applied Linguistics 40 (1) : 64–85.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
academic world | agency | applied linguistics | citation | corpus analysis | sociology
Place, Publisher
Oxford University Press
Journal WWW
http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper examines how academic citation practices have altered over the past 50 years, using a corpus of 2.2 million words from the same leading journals in four disciplines. It found an essential rise in (also progressively required) citations over the period, especially in applied linguistics and sociology.