How We Guide, Write, and Cite at CHI

Henning Pohl; Aske Mottelson

doi:10.1145/3290607.3310429

How We Guide, Write, and Cite at CHI

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Abstract

There are many opinions on how to write an influential CHI paper, ranging from writing in an active voice to including colons in the title. However, little is known about how we actually write, and how writing influences impact. We conducted quantitative analyses of the full text of all 6578 CHI papers published since 1982 to investigate. We looked at readability, titles, novelty, and name-dropping and related these measures to the papers' citation count; overall and for different subcommittees. We found that CHI papers are more readable than papers from other fields. Furthermore, readability, title length, and novelty markers all influence citation counts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2019
Pages	1–11
ISBN (Print)	9781450359719
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3310429
Publication status	Published - 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	CHI EA ´19: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems-Extended Abstracts - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 4 May 2019 → 9 May 2019 https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3290605

Conference

Conference	CHI EA ´19: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems-Extended Abstracts
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	04/05/2019 → 09/05/2019
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3290605

Keywords

navel-gazing
scientometrics
novelty
writing style
chi
readability
citations

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Pohl, H & Mottelson, A 2019, How We Guide, Write, and Cite at CHI. in Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 1–11, CHI EA ´19: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems-Extended Abstracts, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 04/05/2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3310429

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