This really highlights a structural issue in academic publishing that often goes unnnoticed. The idea that keywords function like social media hashtags but less effctively resonates. Particularly interesting is the point about automated indexing systems like PubMed being trained on a 15year window, which inherently biases toward recent terminology and Gobal North perspectives. The tension between making titles searchable versus readable is something I hadn't considerd before.
Thank you for reading! I know, condensing a 6000 word paper to 6 words, pretty shocking how much this impacts a paper's visibility. Academic papers have been published for decades, and such a system only prioritizes recent research--there are tons of good studies from the before 2000 that aren't going to get brought up. I regularly read a lot of papers from the 1980s in my own research area that has a lot of good science in it.
Very interesting, I did not give it so much thought before. I should do a bit of research so see how this is shaped in astroparticle physics
Yeah, its definitely a very important part of publishing that's rarely talked about. 6 words can really influence a paper's visibility.
This really highlights a structural issue in academic publishing that often goes unnnoticed. The idea that keywords function like social media hashtags but less effctively resonates. Particularly interesting is the point about automated indexing systems like PubMed being trained on a 15year window, which inherently biases toward recent terminology and Gobal North perspectives. The tension between making titles searchable versus readable is something I hadn't considerd before.
Thank you for reading! I know, condensing a 6000 word paper to 6 words, pretty shocking how much this impacts a paper's visibility. Academic papers have been published for decades, and such a system only prioritizes recent research--there are tons of good studies from the before 2000 that aren't going to get brought up. I regularly read a lot of papers from the 1980s in my own research area that has a lot of good science in it.