Cover not available

Article published In: Gesture
Vol. 18:1 (2019) ► pp.83–109

Get fulltext from our e-platform
JBE logo with link
PDF logo with download linkDownload PDF
authorization required

Data transparency and citation in the journal Gesture

 | La Trobe University
 | SOAS University of London
 | UiT The Arctic University of Norway
 | University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
 | University of Melbourne
Published online: 11 September 2020
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.00034.gaw
Abstract
Data is central to scholarly research, but the nature and location of data used is often under-reported in research publications. Greater transparency and citation of data have positive effects for the culture of research. This article presents the results of a survey of data citation in six years of articles published in the journal Gesture (12.1–17.2). Gesture researchers draw on a broad range of data types, but the source and location of data are often not disclosed in publications. There is also still a strong research focus on only a small range of the world’s languages and their linguistic diversity. Published papers rarely cite back to the primary data, unless it is already published. We discuss both the implications of these findings and the ways that scholars in the field of gesture studies can build a positive culture around open data.
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Survey of data citation in Gesture
    • Source of data
    • Location of data
    • Data types
    • Languages included
    • Data citation conventions
  • Results
    • Source of data
    • Location of data
    • Data types
    • Languages included
    • Data citation conventions
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
References (84)
References
Alibali, Martha W., Andrew G. Young, Noelle M. Crooks, Amelia Yeo, Matthew S. Wolfgram, Iasmine M. Ledesma, Mitchell J. Nathan, Ruth Breckinridge Church, & Eric J. Knuth (2013). Students learn more when their teacher has learned to gesture effectively. Gesture, 13 (2), 210–233. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Andreassen, Helene N., Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Lauren Collister, Philipp Conzett, Christopher Cox, Koenraad De Smedt, Bradley McDonnell, and the Research Data Alliance Linguistic Data Interest Group (2019). Tromsø recommendations for citation of research data in linguistics (Version 1). Research Data Alliance. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Ball, Alex & Monica Duke (2015). How to cite datasets and link to publications. DCC How-to Guides. Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre. Available online: [URL]
Benazzo, Sandra & Aliyah Morgenstern (2014). A bilingual child’s multimodal path into negation. Gesture, 14 (2), 171–202. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Lauren Gawne, Barbara F. Kelly, & Tyler Heston (2017). A survey of current reproducibility practices in linguistics journals, 2003–2012. [URL]
Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Helene N. Andreassen, Lauren Gawne, Gary Holton, Susan Smythe Kung, Peter Pulsifer, & Lauren B. Collister, The Data Citation and Attribution in Linguistics Group, & the Linguistics Data Interest Group (2018). The Austin Principles of Data Citation in Linguistics. Version 1.0. [URL] (accessed Nov 23, 2018).
Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Lauren Gawne, Susan Smythe Kung, Barbara F. Kelly, Tyler Heston, Gary Holton, Peter Pulsifer, David I. Beaver, Shobhana Chelliah, Stanley Dubinsky, Richard P. Meier, Nicholas Thieberger, Karen Rice, & Anthony C. Woodbury (2018). Reproducible research in linguistics: A position statement on data citation and attribution in our field. Linguistics, 56 (1), 1–18. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Buckheit, Jonathan B. & David Donoho (1995). WaveLab and reproducible research. In A. Antoniadis & G. Oppenheim (Eds.), Wavelets and statistics (pp. 55–81). New York: Springer. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Chambers, Chris (2017). The seven deadly sins of psychology: A manifesto for reforming the culture of scientific practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Chui, Kawai & Huei-ling Lai (2008). The NCCU Corpus of Spoken Chinese: Mandarin, Hakka, and Southern Min. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 6 (2), 119–144.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Cooperrider, Kensy & Rafael Núñez (2012). Nose-pointing: Notes on a facial gesture of Papua New Guinea. Gesture, 12 (2), 103–129. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Corballis, Michael C. (2012). How language evolved from manual gestures. Gesture, 12 (2), 200–226. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Corina, David P. & Eva Gutierrez (2016). Embodiment and American Sign Language. Gesture, 15 (3), 291–305. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Corpus of English for academic and professional purposes. (2014). Corpus of videos and accompanying transcripts from educational contexts. Unpublished raw data. [URL]
de Jorio, Andrea (1832). La mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano. Naples: Stamperia e cartiera del Fibreno.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
de Leeuw, Jan (2001). Reproducible research: The bottom line. UCLA Department of Statistics papers. [URL] (accessed October 9, 2018).
de Nooijer, Jacqueline A., Tamara van Gog, Fred Paas, & Rolf A. Zwaan (2014). Words in action: using gestures to improve verb learning in primary school children. Gesture, 14 (1), 46–69. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Donoho, David L. (2010). An invitation to reproducible computational research. Biostatistics, 111, 385–388. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Gawne, Lauren (collector) (2009). Kagate (Nepal) (SUY1), Digital collection managed by PARADISEC. [Open Access]. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Gawne, Lauren, Barbara F. Kelly, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, & Tyler Heston (2017). Putting practice into words: The state of data and methods transparency in grammatical descriptions. Language Documentation & Conservation, 111, 157–189. 10125/24731Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Gawne, Lauren & Suzy J. Styles. (still in press). Situating linguistics in the social science data movement. In Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, & Eve Koller (Eds.), The open handbook of linguistic data management. Cambridge, M.A.: MIT Press Open.
Gezelter, Dan (2009). Being scientific: Falsifiability, verifiability, empirical tests, and reproducibility. The OpenScience project. Online: [URL] (accessed Nov 23, 2018).
Green, Jennifer, Anastasia Bauer, Alice Gaby, & Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis (2018). Pointing to the body: Kin signs in Australian Indigenous sign languages. Gesture, 17 (1), 1–36. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Green, Jennifer, Gail Woods & Ben Foley (2011). Looking at language: Appropriate design for sign language resources in remote Australian Indigenous communities. In Nicholas Thieberger, Linda Barwick, Rosey Billington, & Jill Vaughan (Eds.), Sustainable data from digital research: Humanities perspectives on digital scholarship (pp. 66–89). Melbourne: University of Melbourne.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Gruber, James, Jeanette King, Jen Hay, & Lucy Johnston (2016). The hands, head, and brow: A sociolinguistic study of Māori gesture. Gesture, 15 (1), 1–36. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Harris, Richard (2017). Rigor mortis: how sloppy science creates worthless cures, crushes hope, and wastes billions. New York: Basic Books.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Haspelmath, Martin & Susanne Maria Michaelis (2014). Annotated corpora of small languages as refereed publications: A vision. Diversity Linguistics Comment. Online: [URL] (accessed Nov 23, 2018).
Ioannidis, John P. A. (2012). Why science isn’t necessarily self-correcting. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7 (6): 645–654. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Jasny, Barbara R., Gilbert Chin, Lisa Chong, & Sacha Vignieri (2011). Introduction to special issue: Again, and again, and again. Science, 334 (6060), 1225. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
John, Leslie K., George Loewenstein, & Drazen Prelec (2012). Measuring the prevalence of questionable research practices with incentives for truth telling. Psychological Science, 23 (5), 524–532. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Jones, Sarah (2011). How to develop and data management and sharing plan. DCC How-to Guides. Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre. Available online: [URL]
Kettner, Viktoria A. & Jeremy I. M. Carpendale (2013). Developing gestures for no and yes: Head shaking and nodding in infancy. Gesture, 13 (2), 193–209. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Kimura, Daisuke & Natalia Kazik (2017). Learning in-progress. Gesture, 16 (1), 127–151. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Kok, Kasper, Kirsten Bergmann, Alan Cienki, & Stefan Kopp (2016). Mapping out the multifunctionality of speakers’ gestures. Gesture, 15 (1), 37–59. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Kung, Susan Smythe. (still in press). Developing a data management plan. In Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, & Eve Koller, The open handbook of linguistic data management. Cambridge, M.A.: MIT Press Open.
Lempert, Michael (2017). Uncommon resemblance. Gesture, 16 (1), 35–67. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Looney, Veronica & Richard P. Meier (2014). Genie’s middle-finger points and signs: A case study. Gesture, 14 (1), 97–107. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lücking, Andy, Kirsten Bergman, Florian Hahn, Stefan Kopp, & Hannes Rieser (2013). Data-based analysis of speech and gesture: The Bielefeld Speech and Gesture Alignment Corpus (SaGA) and its applications. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 7 (1/2), 5–18. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
MacWhinney, Brian (2007). The TalkBank project. In Joan C. Beal, Karen P. Corrigan, & Hermann L. Moisl (Eds.), Creating and digitizing language corpora: Synchronic databases (Vol. 11, pp. 163–180). Houndmills: Palgrave-Macmillan. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mechraoui, Amal & Faridah Noor Binti Mohd Noor (2017). The direction giving pointing gestures of the Malay Malaysian speech community. Gesture, 16 (1), 68–99. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Morris, Desmond, Peter Collett, Peter Marsh, & Marie O’Shaughnessay (1979). Gestures: Their origins and distribution. London: Cape.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Nelson, Leif D., Joseph Simmons, & Uri Simonsohn (2018). Psychology’s renaissance. Annual Review of Psychology, 691, 511–534. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Open Science Collaboration. 2015. Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349 (6251), aac4716. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Padden, Carol A., Irit Meir, So-One Hwang, Ryan Lepic, Sharon Seegers, Tory Sampson (2013). Patterned iconicity in sign language lexicons. Gesture, 13 (3), 287–308. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Sikveland, Rein O. & Richard A. Ogden (2012). Holding gestures across turns: Moments to generate shared understanding. Gesture, 12 (2), 166–199. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Skubisz, Joanna (2017). A systematic review of the methods reported in the journal GESTURE. iGesto. Porto: February 2–3.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Sutton-Spence, Rachel & Donna Jo Napoli (2013). How much can classifiers be analogous to their referents? Gesture, 13 (1), 1–27. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Tkachman, Oskana & Wendy Sandler (2013). The noun-verb distinction in two young sign languages. Gesture, 13 (3), 253–286. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Thieberger, Nicholas, Anna Margetts, Stephen Morey, & Simon Musgrave (2016). Assessing annotated corpora as research output. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 36 (1), 1–21. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Vines, Timothy H., Arianne Y. K. Albert, Rose L. Andrew, Florence Débarre, Dan G. Bock, Michelle T. Franklin, Kimberly J. Gilbert, Jean-Sébastien Moore, Sébastien Renaut, & Diana J. Rennison (2014). The availability of research data declines rapidly with article age. Current Biology, 24 (1), 94–97. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Wehling, Elisabeth (2018). Discourse management gestures. Gesture, 16 (2), 245–276. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Whyte, Angus (2015). Where to keep research data: DCC checklist for evaluating data repositories. V.1.1. Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre. Available online: [URL]
Cited by (2)

Cited by two other publications

Rodríguez Louro, Celeste, Katharine Parton & Lauren Gawne
2025. For the love of people: Introduction to the special issue in honour of Barbara Frances Kelly. Australian Journal of Linguistics 45:3 ► pp. 259 ff. DOI logo
Owoyele, Babajide, James Trujillo, Gerard de Melo & Wim Pouw
2022. Masked-Piper: Masking personal identities in visual recordings while preserving multimodal information. SoftwareX 20 ► pp. 101236 ff. DOI logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 9 december 2025. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue