What do the differences and commonalities in doctoral dissertation acknowledgments across disciplines reveal?

• Kexin Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Culture and Communication, Shandong University, Weihai, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0930-9342

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• Jingwen Han ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-first authors.

  Affiliation International College of Chinese Studies, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China

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• Huibin Zhuang

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: huibinzhuang@aliyun.com

  Affiliation School of Culture and Communication, Shandong University, Weihai, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-220X

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