Title:
Why scientific papers are growing increasingly inscrutable
Author:
Hannah Seo
Published:
Popular Science, 25 August 2020
https://www.popsci.com/story/science/science-journals-acronyms-communication/
From the article:
A group of researchers in Australia, including a marine ecologist and a statistician, looked at almost 25 million scientific articles between 1950 and 2019, searching for trends in acronym use. They published their analysis in eLife. The researchers identified more than 1 million unique acronyms in just the abstracts and titles alone, and found that the proportion of words in a scientific paper that are acronyms has more than tripled since 1950.