Acknowledgments are one of many conventions by which researchers publicly bestow recognition towards individuals, organizations and institutions that contributed in some way to the work that led to publication. Combining data on both co-authors and acknowledged individuals, the present study analyses disciplinary differences in researchers’ credit attribution practices in collaborative context....

Two alternative accounts can be given of the information contained in acknowledgments academic publications. According to mainstream normative account serve repay debts towards formal or informal collaborators. strategic account, by contrast, increase perceived quality papers associating authors influential scholars. The two are assessed analyzing indexed Web Science 1218 articles published “to...

Thesis acknowledgement is a written genre in which MA graduate students offer their gratitude to individuals, who have contributed to the completion of their study. The aim of the current study was to examine the thesis acknowledgements written by Iranian MA students in the field of Persian Language Teaching to Non-Persian Speakers (Amouzeshe Zaban e Farsi be Kharejian, AZFA) and TEFL in terms ...