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Abstract

A study presents an objective way of determining if scientific literature is becoming incomprehensible to all but a few initiates. The range of lexical difficulty in several text categories of selected science journals is investigated and discussed.

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Title
The Growing Inaccessibility of Science
Author
Hayes, Donald P
Pages
739
Publication year
1992
Publication date
Apr 30, 1992
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
ISSN
00280836
e-ISSN
14764687
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/356739a0
ProQuest document ID
204436432
Copyright
Copyright Macmillan Journals Ltd. Apr 30, 1992