Check out the 11/16/09 PhD Comic:
It a series of graphs on “buzzwords” (# papers with ___ word published in its title) and just kind of an amusing perspective on academic writing, as well as asking us to wonder why they grouped certain buzzwords together…
I would be interested to know how many came from the humanities and soc science papers. I know certain hardened natural scientists cringe often at the way those ‘critters in humanities misuse our terms!’
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Yeah I was wondering the same thing– I think a more interesting buzzwords study would be to filter by discipline (I’d be curious to see the buzzword stats for just humanities/soc sci papers…)