Short communications are an integral part of academic journal publishing since they serve as a forum for scholarly debate on recently published journal articles. Their prestige and popularity, however, have been declining in the present academic setting. In this short note, we offer several reasons for this phenomenon.
Keywords: Citation; Commentaries; Indexing; Letters to the editor; Peer review; Short communications.
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