Words by the tail: Assessing lexical diversity in scholarly titles using frequency-rank distribution tail fits

• Nicolas Bérubé ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicolas Bérubé, Maxime Sainte-Marie

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation École de Bibliothéconomie et des Sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC. H3C 3J7, Canada

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• Maxime Sainte-Marie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicolas Bérubé, Maxime Sainte-Marie

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: msaintemarie@gmail.com

  Affiliation École de Bibliothéconomie et des Sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC. H3C 3J7, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0760-0290

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• Philippe Mongeon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, P.O. Box 905, 2300 AX Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Vincent Larivière

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations École de Bibliothéconomie et des Sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC. H3C 3J7, Canada, Observatoire des Sciences et des Technologies (OST), Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur la Science et la Technologie (CIRST), Université du Québec à Montréal, CP 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC. H3C 3P8, Canada

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