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Please no. Papers are sufficiently terse, jargon-filled and hard to follow as it is

• toufka 9y ago
  Further, in some fields (biomedical) research takes so long, and top-tier journals are so selective, that a lot of work just never gets published. Slowing that process even further would wreak havoc on already way-too-long graduate careers. A really pernicious effect of some bosses who 'only publish top-tier-quality work' is many students get stuck with years-worth of negative results, and do not get to either move on or publish their work.
• CJefferson 9y ago
  And that is because of the journals having limits. I've had papers where we carefully wrote a long explanation of exactly how some feature was implemented. If papers were websites, just hide it behind a link, don't read it if you don't care. Instead we were told to take it out as it wasted space.