- The use of acronyms has increased in the scientific literature, but acronym re-use is down. Analysis of 24 million article titles and 18 million article abstracts found at least one acronym in 19% of titles and 73% of abstracts. Most acronyms (79%) appeared fewer than 10 times in the literature. https://elifesciences.org/articles/60080 7 comments science
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- Science is getting harder to read | News | Nature Index https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/science-research-papers-getting-harder-to-read-acronyms-jargon 2 comments
- The advantage of short paper titles | Royal Society Open Science http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/8/150266 0 comments
- Why scientific papers are growing increasingly inscrutable https://www.popsci.com/story/science/science-journals-acronyms-communication/ 0 comments
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