Scholarly articles in digital forms overtook printed ones, but survey suggests increase in reading may have levelled off.
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05 February 2014
This article’s headline and details have been corrected in response to a re-analysis of the data by the authors of the study. At first, the paper had stated that scientists were reading fewer papers in 2012 than 2005. But in response to questions raised by Phil Davis, a scholarly-publishing consultant based in Ithaca, New York, the authors examined median amounts of reading — not just the mean amounts, which could have been skewed by a few respondents with very high reading levels — and the confidence intervals around those averages. The new analysis show no statistically significant difference between the two years.
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Van Noorden, R. Scientists may be reaching a peak in reading habits. Nature (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2014.14658
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