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This is off topic: Is it the typical length of a biological paper? I mean in computer science field, a full paper would be 10~14 pages. Composed of 5~7 pages of

by dengnan 12y ago

This is off topic: Is it the typical length of a biological paper? I mean in computer science field, a full paper would be 10~14 pages. Composed of 5~7 pages of experiment results. On the other hand, this paper only contains one table of result and a figure with quite large fonts. I would like to know if this is normal in this field? Edit: typo

gwern 12y ago
It really depends on the journal and format. I've seen some very long articles and also biology articles in Nature which are maybe 2 pages, including references in teen-tiny font (and nigh-incomprehensible). In this case, there's something similar: a lot of the information a CS paper might include inline has been shunted aside to "Supplemental Information includes one figure, three tables, and Supplemental Experimental Procedures and can be found with this article online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.05.076 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.05.076 ", and much of the background here (eg the development of the test battery) is in previous papers. This is more reporting the apex of their work, if you will.