We have found that—when it comes to abstracts—“more is more,” despite clear and abundant advice to the contrary
2015
Key concepts
- abstruse term
- Proëmial Essay
- stylistic feature
- right mind
- abundant advice
- right article
- intriguing hypothesis
- future study
- specific abstract
- prolix prose
- search technique
- different preference
- search engine
- citation performance
- 21st century science
- new landscape
- Writing Science
- surprising result
- linguistic fitness
Scholarcy highlights
- We have found that—when it comes to abstracts—“more is more,” despite clear and abundant advice to the contrary
- An intriguing hypothesis is that scientists have different preferences for what they would like to read versus what they are going to cite
- Future studies could investigate the relationship between stylistic features and retrievability directly, as well as the strength of the relationship between retrievability and citation performance
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