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More equations, less citations?

We all knew it, but now it’s official: Tim W. Fawcett and Andrew D. Higginson show in a new PNAS article titled “Heavy use of equations impedes communication among biologists” that The density of equations in an article [addition: in the field of ecology and evolution] has a significant negative impact on citation rates, with…

June 26, 2012 in Academic Publishing, Ecology, Evolution, Scientific writing.

Do catchy titles attract more citations?

Conventional wisdom has it that paper titles must be catchy to attract the readers attention. But what makes a catchy title? What one finds increasingly in the academic literature are patterns like INTERESTING SENTENCE THAT COULD MEAN ANYTHING*: BUT WHAT DID WE REALLY DO? (I admit to being a culprit myself). The hope here is…

April 17, 2012 in Academic Publishing, Science, Scientific writing.

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