Because the latter can be reliably created, the editorial team will do so on the authors’ behalf, but gain their approval prior to publication. In articles published by the current editorial team (i.e., those after volume 9, issue 1), abstracts will be followed by word clouds. By contrast, consider what you learn about the article from looking at its word cloud:
They were listed as “police,” “motivation,” “autonomy,” and “boredom.” They tell you little about the article even less if you already know its title. So you can see the effect, let us take a look at Phillips’ (2017) “Self-Motivation in Policing.” 4 This is the first article in QC to include keywords. Now, all QC articles are accompanied by a word cloud (on a particular page, described in the next subsection). Plus, they are more interesting to look at and, thus, garner more interest from readers. Compared to keywords, word clouds offer more information not only because they include more words, but also because their importance is reflected in their size. That got us thinking: Why not replace keywords with word clouds? 3 Because of how they are created, they are valid and reliable representations of articles’ text. We asked about keywords because they are a convention, 2 not because they are useful. Even PMC, believe it or not, doesn’t appear to index keywords. We don’t support keywords because, honestly, we looked around at how many aggregators actually use them and found few actually look at them in returning results. We noticed that PubPub does not have a field for entering them, so we asked the platform’s Head of Operations, Gabe Stein, about it. While moving QC from its old to new website, a question about keywords came up. They are a great way to capture people’s attention and get them reading. Below, we explain the decision and show you how to make word clouds for your papers. We are the first criminology journal, at least, to take this step. Therefore, …Qualitative…Criminology ( QC) is replacing keywords with word clouds. 1 For understanding articles at a glance, they are far superior to keywords. In this editorial, we introduce a third option: word clouds. Abstracts and keywords are commonly used to summarize articles.
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