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Differences in disciplinary concentration and linguistic complexity between scientific posts on Bluesky and X

Several social media platforms provide a route for communication about scientific topics. X, formerly known as Twitter, has been shown to offer researchers an opportunity to exchange scientific information with audiences extending well beyond the research community. In recent years another platform, Bluesky, has emerge...

LLM-assisted writing and citation advantage: evidence from scientific publications before and after ChatGPT release

Analysis of a large-scale dataset covering 234,073 research papers published between 2019 and 2025 suggests that AI-assisted writing confers a modest but systematic advantage in visibility and discoverability that translates into higher measured impact.

Moving toward the era of New Statistics: Implications for quantitative studies in English for academic purposes

Quantitative reporting practices shape what English for Academic Purposes (EAP) researchers, practitioners, and research synthesists can infer from empirical studies. This article argues that quantitative EAP research should move more decisively towards the era of New Statistics. Using selected recent EAP studies as...

Language and Persuasion Research: A Computational Literature Review Spanning Five Decades of Scholarship (1974–2025)

Three additional findings are identified: (1) the field has maintained relatively stable theoretical coherence, (2) papers that focus more on content analysis research receive fewer citations, and (3) the application of certain theoretical principles has declined over time, with researchers potentially citing underlyin...

Hedging and Boosting in Moroccan English Research Articles: The Case of Doctoral Students at Ben’Msik Faculty of Sciences

Mapping Introversion in Educational Personality Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Personality is a fundamental factor in shaping classroom dynamics, student engagement, and instructional paradigms, yet introversion remains a highly fragmented and peripheral topic within educational scholarship. This study systematically applies a macro-level bibliometric approach to map the latent environment of int...