Science is becoming more difficult to understand due to the sheer number of acronyms, finds a new study that analysed the use of acronyms...

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

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

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

Research papers containing abstracts that are shorter and consist of more commonly used words accumulate citations more successfully,...

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

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

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

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