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McCready R, Dizdarevic S. Acronyms in Nuclear Medicine (AINM). Nucl Med Commun 2023; 44:926. [PMID: 37700670 DOI: 10.1097/mnm.0000000000001740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/14/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Ralph McCready
- Department Nuclear Medicine, Royal Sussex County Hospital, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Brighton, BN2 5BE, UK
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Barnett A, Doubleday Z. The growth of acronyms in the scientific literature. eLife 2020; 9:60080. [PMID: 32701448 PMCID: PMC7556863 DOI: 10.7554/elife.60080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2020] [Accepted: 07/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Some acronyms are useful and are widely understood, but many of the acronyms used in scientific papers hinder understanding and contribute to the increasing fragmentation of science. Here we report the results of an analysis of more than 24 million article titles and 18 million article abstracts published between 1950 and 2019. There was at least one acronym in 19% of the titles and 73% of the abstracts. Acronym use has also increased over time, but the re-use of acronyms has declined. We found that from more than one million unique acronyms in our data, just over 2,000 (0.2%) were used regularly, and most acronyms (79%) appeared fewer than 10 times. Acronyms are not the biggest current problem in science communication, but reducing their use is a simple change that would help readers and potentially increase the value of science.
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- Adrian Barnett
- School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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- Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
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Josephs KA, Mackenzie I, Frosch MP, Bigio EH, Neumann M, Arai T, Dugger BN, Ghetti B, Grossman M, Hasegawa M, Herrup K, Holton J, Jellinger K, Lashley T, McAleese KE, Parisi JE, Revesz T, Saito Y, Vonsattel JP, Whitwell JL, Wisniewski T, Hu W. LATE to the PART-y. Brain 2020; 142:e47. [PMID: 31359030 PMCID: PMC6736234 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awz224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia and Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwesterm University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Neuropathology, University of Tübingen and German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Division of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UC Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA
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- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University, Indiana, IL, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Dementia and Higher Brain Function, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Clinical Neurobiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- National Center of Neurology and Pathology Brain Bank, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Research, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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