War in the Abstract: The Rise and Consequences of Militarized Language in Scientific Communication
arXiv:2606.23462v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scientists do not, by profession, wage war. Yet warfare's vocabulary consistently appears in their abstracts. To quantify the extent to which warfare's vocabulary pervades scientific abstracts, we analyze 21.4 million papers (2010-2025; OpenAlex, PubMed). We additionally run a within-subject war-framing experiment ($N = 801$; 32{,}040 trials) designed to provide causal insight into the effects of militaristic language on persuasion. Betwe
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Published: 6 August 2026
Source: arXiv cs.CY
Category: Research
Topics: Military & security
Retrieved: 6 August 2026
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