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The study exercises computational linguistics, specifically chemical linguistics methods for profiling an author. We analyze the vocabulary and the style of the titles of the most visible works of Cristofor I. Simionescu, an internationally well-known chemist, for detecting specific patterns of his research interests and methods. Somewhat surprisingly, while the tools used are elementary and there is only a small number of words in the analysis, some interesting details emerged about the work of the analyzed personality. Some of these aspects were confirmed by experts in the field. We believe this is the first study aiming to author profiling in chemical linguistics, moreover the first to question the usefulness of Google Scholar for author profiling.

This article continues the stylometric study started in a previous one; we focus on stylometric distances between text segments and the use of these distances in text sectioning based on maximizing the distances between text parts. We refine the method previously introduced and improve on the results. Applications include the automation of stylistic analysis of texts, with implication on text summarization, historical analysis, and authorship analysis.