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Editorial
. 2015 Apr 30;11(4):e1004205.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004205. eCollection 2015 Apr.

Ten simple (empirical) rules for writing science

Cody J Weinberger  1 , James A Evans  2 , Stefano Allesina  3
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Editorial

Ten simple (empirical) rules for writing science

Cody J Weinberger et al. PLoS Comput Biol. .
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Figures

Fig 1
Fig 1. Effect of abstract features on citations.
For each discipline (rows) and each abstract feature (columns), we measured whether a certain feature (e.g., having fewer words than the typical abstract published in the same journal [R1a]) led to a significant increase (blue) or decrease (red) in total citations. We considered an effect positive or negative only if the associated probability of being zero was smaller than 0.01/15 (i.e., we applied the Bonferroni correction to obtain an overall significance level of 1%).
Fig 2
Fig 2. Size of the effects.
Same designations as Fig 1, but measuring the benefit/cost of having a certain feature one standard deviation above the mean for the corresponding journal.
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