This study aims to investigate the semantic and syntactic features of verbs used in the introduction section of Applied Linguistics research articles published in Iranian and international journals. A corpus of 20 research article introductions (10 from each journal) was used. The corpus was analysed for the syntactic features (tense, aspect and voice) and semantic meaning of verbs. The finding...

this article analyzed the various bibliometric components of the articles published in the malaysian journal of library and information science from 1996 to 2012. various quality aspects of the 279 articles published in the period were studied. the study demonstrates and elaborates on the various aspects of the journal, such as its distribution of article by year, authorship patterns, distribut...