Does Journal Indexation Matter? A Genre-Approach Move Analysis of Nursing English Research Article Abstracts

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Background.A plethora of previous studies have discussed the importance of a genre-approach move analysis because the analysis results can provide a picture of the typical conventions of research article writing across disciplines.

Purpose.Nursing as a professional discipline, however, has received scant attention, particularly in the abstract section in the journals with different indexation. To fill such an empirical void, this qualitative study probes the notion of whether journal indexation matters in manifesting the rhetorical moves in the nursing abstracts.

Methods. Fifty abstracts from a Scopus-indexed Q1 journal and another 50 from three Sinta-indexed journals in Indonesia were analyzed manually. This study employed a descriptive comparative approach to analyze and present the data.

Findings.The findings demonstrated conformity manifestations of method and results moves along with their linguistic realizations by using simple past tense in active or passive forms. The article abstracts from the Scopus-indexed nursing journal emphasized the novelty of the research more than their counterparts from the identification of gap of previous research and highlighting the significance of the study.

Implications.This study suggests writers consider the contributing role of journal indexation type in projecting a higher standard of abstract writing in preparing their abstracts to increase the acceptance rate during an initial screening stage.

About the authors

Arif Husein Lubis

Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

Email: lubis_ah@yahoo.com
ORCID iD: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5457-4777

Eri Kurniawan

Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

Email: lubis_ah@upi.edu
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6128-5466

Wawan Gunawan

Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

Email: saffsd@fdfvsd.erxxx
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1792-8350

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