Physicists can get wordy when describing their own work, but apparently they get straight to the point when providing feedback to others. According to a rece...

The Journal of Sketching Science, a new scholarly publishing platform that summarises complex scientific research as illustrations, launches today. The full ...

An unorthodox new astronomy journal is geared toward short, succinct updates of work in progress. Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society (RNAAS)...

Research papers containing abstracts that are shorter and consist of more commonly used words accumulate citations more successfully, according to a recent s...

With constant floods of information into academic literature, science publishers are rapidly realising that the need for brevity is more apparent than ever b...

Journal papers with short titles attract more citations, according to a study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science that analysed 140,000 paper...

William Mobley, a neuroscientist from the University of California, San Diego, is urging academic publishers to start offering authors the option to publish ...

Scientific journals are known to publish long and often difficult-to-understand research papers. But a new journal, The Journal of Brief Ideas, which aims to...