Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/287468 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Business Economics [ISSN:] 1861-8928 [Volume:] 91 [Issue:] 7 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Berlin, Heidelberg [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 1025-1061
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
This article addresses the importance of tailoring publications to expectations of the intended scientific sub-community it addresses. But what does this mean when writing an article and adopting community specific jargon? This article disentangles the effects of articles' language complexity on their impact. In the domain of entrepreneurship science, we show that language uniqueness (in form of aligning jargon uniquely to one community) has a positive effect on article's impact. An article's novelty (in form of novel recombination of community jargon) has an inverted U-shape relationship with impact. We further show that the optimal level of novelty decreases with increasing uniqueness, yielding higher overall impact. These findings have implications not only for authors of scientific articles but also for their audience.
Subjects: 
Entrepreneurship science
Language complexity
Language uniqueness
Novelty
Natural language processing
Bibliometric analysis
JEL: 
L26
Z13
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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