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The readability of scientific texts is decreasing over time

Clarity and accuracy of reporting are fundamental to the scientific process. Readability formulas can estimate how difficult a text is to read. Here, in a corpus consisting of 709,577 abstracts published between 1881 and 2015 from 123 scientific journals, we show that the readability of science is s...

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Published in:eLife
Main Authors: Plavén-Sigray, Pontus, Matheson, Granville James, Schiffler, Björn Christian, Thompson, William Hedley
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5584989/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28873054
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.27725
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