Tag: bibliometrics

In 2007, Reck & Reck computed seven readability measures for 15,511 Project Gutenberg texts and characterised the distribution of each across the corpus. This work extends that study to the present corpus — 60,787 English-prose works, the seven measures, lexical and structural features, lexicon-based sentiment, and emotional arcs — with author metadata drawn from Wikidata and an interactive tool for exploring any author against the whole distribution.

In 2013 a draft paper set out to measure the mobile-app agreements nobody reads, then stalled with its statistics left as 'XX' placeholders. This finishes it. A bibliometric analysis of 92 real mobile-app EULAs finds a postgraduate reading level, ~11 minutes each, and a structural trap: three-quarters can be rewritten at any time and bind you by 'continued use,' yet only 3% carry a version number. The agreements are written to be agreed to, not read — with the fine print, verbatim, to prove it.