Robust, novel, innovating, unprecedented – words to avoid to publish in high impact factor medical journals
Study finds that the words robust, novel, innovating, and unprecedented have a 15000% relative increase in frequency over the last 40 years. A recent study1 in the BMJ Christmas issue investigated the use of positive and negative words in the scientific literature. The study included a retrospective analysis of PubMed titles and abstracts between 1974 […]
