Analysis of formalization features across different science disciplines.

(A) Average number of sentences per abstract across five science disciplines. (B) Average number of words per abstract across five disciplines. (C) Percentage of nouns per abstract across five science disciplines. (D) Percentage of noun-beginning sentences per abstract across five science disciplines. (E) Number of object-verb constructions per sentence in the abstracts of five science disciplines. (F) Maximum sentence length in the abstracts of five science disciplines. (G) Number of words per sentence (sentence length) in the abstracts of five science disciplines. (H) Percentage of pronouns per abstract across five science disciplines. (I) Percentage of pronoun-beginning sentences per abstract across five science disciplines. (J) Percentage of WH-pronouns per abstract across five science disciplines. Statistical analysis was performed using ANOVA with post hoc Tukey test. Error bars represent S.E.M. n = 100 per science discipline. Each n represents one abstract.