Today, a groundbreaking new study has been published in the journal Nature Communications. The study reveals that the number of academic articles published in the last two decades has been steadily eroding due to a phenomenon known as “the avalanche effect”. This effect occurs when multiple articles are published on the same topic and they “snowball” in terms of citations and recognition, leaving other articles in the same field behind. The study shows that in some fields of research, up to two-thirds of all published articles have been “snowed out” by the avalanche effect. The findings of this study are sure to have far-reaching implications for the scholarly publishing industry.

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source: Phys.org