Corpus of Journal Articles 2014

The Corpus of Journal Articles (CJA) 2014 is a research resource that is publicly available via the website of the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English (RCPCE) to benefit academics and students locally and internationally.  It is available to users free of charge and is not used for any commercial purposes. 

The CJA 2014 enables users to investigate the patterns of  language use in academic publications from 38 disciplines. For usages of the ConcGramOnline engine, please refer to the ConcGramOnline manual. For a full list of all the discipline-specific journals used in the compilation of the CJA 2014, click here:

The 38 disciplines from which journal articles were selected are:

Disciplines No. of articles No. of journals Journal ranking source
1. Accounting and finance 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
2. Anthropology 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
3. Applied Biology and Chemical Technology 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
4. Linguistics 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
5. Applied Mathematics 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
6. Applied Physics 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
7. Applied Social Sciences 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
8. Archaeology 20 9 Journal Citation Reports 2014
9. Building and Real Estates 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
10. Building Services Engineering 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
11. Civil and Structural Engineering 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
12. Computing 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
13. Design 20 10 SCImago Journal Rank
14. Economics 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
15. Education 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
16. Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineering 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
17. Geography 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
18. Health Technology and Informatics 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
19. History 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
20. History of Art 20 10 SCImago Journal Rank
21. Hotel and Tourism 20 20 SCImago Journal Rank
22. Industrial & Systems Engineering 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
23. Land Surveying and Geoinformatics 20 9 Journal Citation Reports 2014
24. Law 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
25. Literature 20 20 SCImago Journal Rank
26. Logistics 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
27. Management and Marketing 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
28. Mechanical Engineering 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
29. Music 20 20 SCImago Journal Rank
30. Nursing 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
31. Optometry 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
32. Philosophy 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
33. Politics 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
34. Psychology 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
35. Rehabilitation Sciences 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
36. Sociology 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
37. Textiles and Clothing 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014
38. Communication 20 20 Journal Citation Reports 2014

A total of 20 articles have been selected for each discipline. In each discipline, 20 journals with high Impact factors in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2014 published by the Thomson Reuters or SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) published by Scimago Lab in 2014 were identified.

The first article from the first issue of 2014 of each identified journal was selected for inclusion in the corpus. In the case that the number of journals listed on JCR 2014 or SJR 2014 was less than 20, the first article from the second issue of the highest ranking journal in 2014 was selected, followed by the first article from the second issue of the next highest ranking journal in 2014, and so on.

CJA 2014 currently contains 760 articles and no two articles were written by the same author(s).


The corpus also allows for the following types of advanced search:

1. Advanced Search by Discipline

This allows for the searching of 20 research articles from each discipline.

2. Advanced Search by Field

In this search mode, articles in the 38 disciplines are merged into two fields:

1. Engineering and Applied Sciences
2. Humanities and Social Sciences

The disciplines in each field are:

a. Engineering and Applied Sciences

1 Applied Biology and Chemical Technology
2 Applied Mathematics
3 Applied Physics
4 Building Services Engineering
5 Civil and Structural Engineering
6 Computing
7 Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering
8 Health Technology and Informatics
9 Industrial and Systems Engineering
10 Land Surveying and Geoinformatics
11 Mechanical Engineering
12 Nursing
13 Optometry
14 Rehabilitation Sciences
15 Textiles and Clothing
b. Humanities and Social Sciences

1 Accounting and Finance
2 Anthropology
3 Applied Social Sciences
4 Archaeology
5 Building and Real Estate
6 Communication
7 Design
8 Economics
9 Education
10 Geography
11 History
12 History of Art
13 Hotel and Tourism Management
14 Law
15 Linguistics
16 Literature
17 Logistics
18 Management and Marketing
19 Music
20 Philosophy
21 Politics
22 Psychology
23 Sociology
3. Advanced Search by Section

'Section' refers to the sections identified in the research articles. Texts are sorted by the section to which they belong as follows:

a. Research Articles
1. Abstracts
2. Introductions
3. Literature reviews
4. Introductions and literature reviews
5. Hypotheses, research questions, research aims or research purposes
6. Methods
7. Results
8. Discussions
9. Results and discussions
10. Conclusions
11. Conclusions and discussions
12. Conclusions and future directions
13. Conclusions and implications
14. Conclusions and/or summaries
15. Implications
16. Limitations
17. Directions
18. Conclusions, implications, limitation, recommendations and/or directions

b. Review Articles
1. Abstracts
2. Introductions
3. Literature reviews
4. Introductions and literature reviews
5. Conclusions, summaries and/or future directions

c. Theoretical Articles
1. Abstracts
2. Introductions
3. Introductions and discussions, or Discussions
4. Conclusions, implications and future directions
 

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