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This paper explores the factors that help explain how to ask questions that generate more responses and examines the impact of different disciplines on response quantity.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title>The study examines 1,968 questions in five disciplines on the academic social Q&A platform ResearchGate Q&A and explores how the linguistic characteristics of these questions affect the number of responses. It uses a range of methods to statistically analyze the relationship between these linguistic characteristics and the number of responses, and conducts comparisons between disciplines.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Findings<\/jats:title>The findings indicate that some linguistic characteristics, such as sadness, positive emotion and second-person pronouns, have a positive effect on response quantity; conversely, a high level of function words and first-person pronouns has a negative effect. 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