Abstract
PurposeScientific literature is a vital tool which we rely upon to communicate the findings of our studies; however, we rarely direct our study to the writing itself. Methods and MaterialsHere, we make use of modern natural language processing algorithms coupled with the large, open access PubMed Central corpus to analyze trends in writing complexity within the field of radiation oncology from 2004–2024. Changes in 1) required grade-level to comprehend, 2) lexical complexity, and 3) information content were assessed. Articles were also classified—and then analyzed—by disease subsite. ResultsWe found significant increases in the three domains over the twenty-year collection period. Genitourinary literature had the greatest readability while gastrointestinal literature was the most complex. ConclusionsThis analysis reveals broad increases in the complexity of our writing. This study demonstrates metrics to use, and benchmark values to refer to, to evaluate the complexity of radiation oncology journal articles.
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