Table 1 Descriptive statistics of the corpus.

From: A corpus-based dependency study of the correlation between nominal group complexity and clause complexity in English academic writing

Disciplinary group

Journals (JCI in 2021)

No. of abstracts

No. of words

SS

Journal of Accounting & Economics (2.29)

54

6433

 

Journal of Management (2.67)

78

14,115

 

Journal of Marketing (2.42)

68

12,261

 

International Organization (3.09)

102

17,766

 

Political Communication (2.71)

48

8182

 

Sub-total

350

58,757

Humanities

Cliometrica (2.48)

60

9565

 

Journal of Global History (5.33)

66

10,416

 

Memory studies (2.77)

74

10807

 

Journal of Literary Semantics (2.20)

18

2842

 

Poetics today (2.42)

61

11139

 

Journal of World Literature (1.91)

71

10038

 

Sub-total

350

54807

NS

ACS Photonics (1.47)

63

10,696

 

Nanophotonics (1.17)

68

11,114

 

Quantum (1.95)

69

10,822

 

Cell Host & Microbe (5.37)

61

8721

 

Cell Metabolism (5.00)

52

7391

 

Nature Microbiology (5.53)

37

6868

 

Sub-total

350

55,612

Total

 

1050

169,176