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Physicists avoid highly mathematical work despite being trained in advanced mathematics, new research suggests. The study, published in the New Journal of Physics, shows that physicists pay less attention to theories that are crammed with mathematical details. This suggests there are real and widespread barriers to communicating mathematical work, and that this is not because of poor training in mathematical skills, or because there is a social stigma about doing well in mathematics.
Dr Tim Fawcett and Dr Andrew Higginson, from the University of Exeter, found, using statistical analysis of the number of citations to 2000 articles in a leading physics journal, that articles are less likely to be referenced by other physicists if they have lots of mathematical equations on each page. [...] Dr Higginson said: "We have already showed that biologists are put off by equations but we were surprised by these findings, as physicists are generally skilled in mathematics.
"This is an important issue because it shows there could be a disconnection between mathematical theory and experimental work. This presents a potentially enormous barrier to all kinds of scientific progress."
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-physicists-mathematics.html
[Abstract]: Statistical Analysis of the Effect of Equations on Citations
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 15 2016, @04:36PM
Those reviewers, unlike the GP, have actually read the paper they are critiquing and they are, at least usually, educated in the field they are reviewing papers for. The idiot above is just spouting off with the believe that his objection should hold the same weight as the published article.
And what makes you think that earlier poster isn't educated in a relevant field? And it's one opinion versus another opinion. Just because one opinion happens to come from someone who wrote a paper isn't very relevant. You have to go beyond just asserting without reason that one opinion is better than another opinion.