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. 2017 Jul 21;19(2-3):127–138. doi: 10.1007/s00799-017-0225-7

Table 2.

Percentage of sentences with MIR in the IMRaD structure

Number of in-text references in MIR I (%) M (%) R (%) D (%)
2 21.74 15.67 19.49 20.74
3 11.63 4.43 7.31 9.34
4 6.25 1.53 3.05 4.36
5 3.45 0.68 1.39 2.12
6 2.04 0.34 0.70 1.13
7 1.22 0.17 0.39 0.64
8 0.77 0.10 0.23 0.36
9 0.48 0.06 0.14 0.21
10 0.32 0.05 0.10 0.13
11 0.22 0.03 0.07 0.08
12 0.15 0.02 0.05 0.06
13 0.10 0.02 0.04 0.04
14 0.08 0.01 0.03 0.03
15 0.05 0.01 0.03 0.02