Plain language summaries (PLSs) have been introduced to communicate research in an
understandable way to a nonexpert audience. Guidelines for writing PLSs have been …

Easily comprehensible summaries of scholarly articles that are provided alongside
'ordinary'scientific abstracts, so-called plain language summaries, can be a powerful tool for …

Key points: Plain language summaries (PLS) are accessible, short, peer‐reviewed
summaries of scholarly journal articles written in non‐technical language. The aim of PLS is …

Objectives We aimed to gather multi-stakeholder insights on key issues relating to plain
language summaries (PLS) of company-sponsored medical research to inform future …

We investigated linguistic factors that affect peoples' trust in science and their commitment to
follow evidence-based recommendations, crucial for limiting the spread of COVID-19. In an …

Background The intent of plain-language resources (PLRs) reporting medical research
information is to advance health literacy among the general public and enable them to …

Teachers are encouraged to inform their professional actions by evidence. Consequently, it
is important to know how they perceive and understand statistical results. In a representative …

Much ink has been spilled on the scientist–practitioner gap, that is, the apparent divide
between knowledge published in academic peer-reviewed journals and the actual business …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to improve communication success through barrier
identification and analysis so that the identified barriers can help project teams establish …

This study explores the difference in syntactic complexity between lay summaries (LSs) and
scientific abstracts holistically and across their common rhetorical moves. Twenty-three …