Based on the paper title ""Heavy use of equations impedes
communication among biologists", the authors seemed concerned about
academic communication though ironically publish behind a paywall.
Perhaps the Mesur folks at LANL/Indiana can quantify the influence of
paywalls on citation count and publi
There's potentially an interesting operations research angle here too.
If I recite the story correctly, OR started from people tasked to place armor
on WWII bombers, to meet the conflicting needs of protection and minimizing
weight so they could carry more bombs. As one would expect, they starte
We knew biologists were math averse, but now it's been quantified:
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/29/11735
"The duo recommends that researchers use equations sparingly in their main
article text to ensure that their ideas reach a wide audience."
I haven't read past the abstract since the arti
