Linguistic and Methodological Divergences between Journals: an Interdisciplinary Analysis with Computational Linguistics and Topic Modeling

Filippo Pietrini

Working Papers - Economics from Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa

Abstract: This empirical study employs computational linguistics and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to analyze the language and the main topics of three economics journals with different aims, scopes and readership, compared to a mathematics and a sociology journal. The aim is to discern linguistic, methodological and topics divergences with a focus on how these differences reflect the variety of theoretical approaches in economic research. The findings suggest significant discrepancies along these three dimensions, underscoring the potential of combining different textual analysis tools for meta-research purposes.

Keywords: Computational Linguistics; Topic Modeling; Journal Comparison; Empirical Analysis; Economic methodology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B2 B5 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2025
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