A manuscript's writing style is central in determining its readership, influence, and impact. Past research has shown that, in many cases, scholars present a unique writing style that is manifested in their manuscripts. In this work, we report a comprehensive investigation into how scholars' writing styles evolve throughout their careers focusing on their academic relations with their advisors and peers. Our results show that scholars' writing styles tend to stabilize early on in their careers -- roughly their 13th publication. Around the same time, scholars' departures from their advisors' writing styles seem to converge as well. Last, collaborations involving fewer scholars, scholars from the same gender, or from the same field of study seem to bring about greater change in their co-authors' writing styles with younger scholars being especially influenceable.
翻译:手稿的写作风格在决定其读者群、影响力和学术价值方面至关重要。以往研究表明,许多学者在其手稿中呈现出独特的写作风格。本研究对学者写作风格在整个职业生涯中的演变规律开展了系统性研究,重点关注其与导师及同行的学术关系。结果表明,学者的写作风格倾向于在职业生涯早期(约第13篇出版物时)趋于稳定。与此同时,学者与其导师写作风格的偏离程度也似乎在此阶段趋于收敛。此外,涉及较少学者、同性别学者或同领域学者的合作似乎更能改变其合著者的写作风格,其中年轻学者尤易受到影响。