How we Guide, Write, and Cite at CHI

Henning Pohl; Aske Mottelson

doi:10.1145/3290607.3310429

How we Guide, Write, and Cite at CHI

Henning Pohl, Aske Mottelson

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Abstract

There are many opinions on how to write an influential CHI paper, ranging from writing in an active voice to including colons in the title. However, little is known about how we actually write, and how writing influences impact. We conducted quantitative analyses of the full text of all 6578 CHI papers published since 1982 to investigate. We looked at readability, titles, novelty, and name-dropping and related these measures to the papers' citation count; overall and for different subcommittees. We found that CHI papers are more readable than papers from other fields. Furthermore, readability, title length, and novelty markers all influence citation counts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts - CHI '19 EA
Number of pages	10
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2019
Pages	1-10
Article number	alt01
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3310429
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 4 May 2019 → 9 May 2019

Conference

Conference	2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	04/05/2019 → 09/05/2019
Sponsor	ACM SIGCHI

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