Researchers adopt keywords to signify the core content of papers, and the spatial distribution of these keywords within the paper can provide insight into researchers' adoption behavior patterns. In this study, the primary purpose was to investigate how keyword adoption patterns affect academic papers' perceived value. First, we collected 5,739 papers from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) to extract the first-level subtitles for statistically characterizing the functional structure of papers in the Library and Information Science (LIS) field. Second, we introduce a balance de...
