- Researchers analyzed jargon in a set of over 21,000 scientific manuscripts and found that papers containing higher proportions of jargon in their titles and abstracts were cited less frequently. Science communication suffers when a research paper is packed with too much specialized terminology. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/science/science-jargon-caves.html 45 comments science
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