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The authors acknowledge support from Projects No. MTM2015-63914-P and No. PGC2018-093854-B-I00 of the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain and Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia Innovacion y Universidades of Spain.

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Martinez-Atienza Barthelemy, JuliaAuthorMartin-Gutierrez, SamuelAuthorLosada, Juan C.AuthorBenito, Rosa M.Corresponding Author

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Relationship between ideology and language in the Catalan independence context

Publicated to:Scientific Reports. 9 (17148): 17148- - 2019-12-01 9(17148), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-53404-x

Authors: Atienza-Barthelemy, Julia; Martin-Gutierrez, Samuel; Losada, Juan C.; Benito, Rosa M.;

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Univ Politecn Madrid, Grp Sistemas Complejos, Escuela Tecn Super Ingn Agron Alimentaria & Biosi, Av Puerta Hierro 2, E-28040 Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

Political polarization generates strong effects on society, driving controversial debates and influencing the institutions. Territorial disputes are one of the most important polarized scenarios and have been consistently related to the use of language. In this work, we analyzed the opinion and language distributions of a particular territorial dispute around the independence of Catalonia through Twitter data. We infer a continuous opinion distribution by applying a model based on retweet interactions, previously detecting elite users with fixed and antagonist opinions. The resulting distribution presents a mainly bimodal behavior with an intermediate third pole that shows a less polarized society with the presence of not only antagonist opinions. We find that the more active, engaged and influential users hold more extreme positions. Also we prove that there is a clear relationship between political positions and the use of language, showing that against independence users speak mainly Spanish while pro-independence users speak Catalan and Spanish almost indistinctly. However, the third pole, closer in political opinion to the pro-independence pole, behaves similarly to the against-independence one concerning the use of language.

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MediaPolitical polarizationSpeakers

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Scientific Reports due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2019, it was in position 17/71, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Multidisciplinary Sciences.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 5.04, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-15, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 3
  • Scopus: 6
  • Europe PMC: 1
  • Google Scholar: 11

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-15:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 26.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 26 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 27.7.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 23 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/86500/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 32
  • Downloads: 7

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Atienza-Barthelemy, Julia) and Last Author (BENITO ZAFRILLA, ROSA MARIA).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been BENITO ZAFRILLA, ROSA MARIA.