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Previous studies have explored techniques for extracting specific details from scholars\u2019 homepage biographies, such as their publication history and educational background. However, there is a lack of research investigating the linguistic properties of homepage bios. Register refers to the linguistic variations that configure the contextual factors constraining language use. To examine the register variations in the homepage bios of humanities scholars at \u2018Project 985\u2019 Chinese universities and those at QS Top-100 universities from English-speaking countries, Multi-Dimensional Analysis and Wmatrix are used to conduct a corpus-based analysis. The entire corpus consists of two sub-corpora: one for the English homepage bios of humanities scholars at Chinese universities and another for those at universities in English-speaking countries. Each sub-corpus comprises 288 texts. 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