CellWell record HH-50477
The readability of scientific texts is decreasing over time
Pontus Plavén-Sigray; Granville James Matheson; Björn Christian Schiffler; William Hedley Thompson
eLife · 2017
In plain language
Across more than 700,000 biomedical abstracts published between 1881 and 2015, the readability of scientific text steadily decreased, with rising jargon and sentence complexity.
- Evidence
- Emerging
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- Primary research (design unspecified)
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