Changes in the communication of chemical information I: Some effects of growth
- 1 April 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Information Science
- Vol. 6 (4) , 103-108
- https://doi.org/10.1177/016555158300600402
Abstract
The readability of scientific papers has decreased dramati cally in the past 100 years, but now appears to have bottomed out at the ' very difficult' level. Volume and price inflationary pressures on publishers have probably been responsible for other changes in journal characteristics between 1900 and 1970 such as increased printing density and number of words and characters per journal per year.Keywords
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