Dalmeet Singh Chawla Sep 11, 20201 minScience is getting harder to readScience is becoming more difficult to understand due to the sheer number of acronyms, finds a new study that analysed the use of acronyms...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla May 10, 20181 minPhysics reviewers are concisePhysicists can get wordy when describing their own work, but apparently they get straight to the point when providing feedback to others....
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Feb 1, 20181 minA picture speaks a thousand words in new scientific journalThe Journal of Sketching Science, a new scholarly publishing platform that summarises complex scientific research as illustrations,...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Nov 9, 20171 minNew astronomy journal keeps papers short and sweetAn unorthodox new astronomy journal is geared toward short, succinct updates of work in progress. Research Notes of the American...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Mar 10, 20161 minPapers with simpler abstracts are cited more, study suggestsResearch papers containing abstracts that are shorter and consist of more commonly used words accumulate citations more successfully,...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Sep 9, 20151 minHow science is distilling its messageWith constant floods of information into academic literature, science publishers are rapidly realising that the need for brevity is more...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Aug 25, 20151 minIn brief, papers with shorter titles get more citations, study suggestsJournal papers with short titles attract more citations, according to a study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science that...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Jul 21, 20151 minSpeeding up scholarly communication for rapid sharingWilliam Mobley, a neuroscientist from the University of California, San Diego, is urging academic publishers to start offering authors...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Feb 18, 20151 minTruly Brief CommunicationsScientific journals are known to publish long and often difficult-to-understand research papers. But a new journal, The Journal of Brief...