Questions about the research paper.

tech_fan
Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:53:32 +0000

Good research papers can indeed be short, with an appendix which is longer explaining analytical details. Different fields have very different styles. In modern math, you’d almost never see anything in a major journal shorter than 10 pages (though sometimes notes can be as short as a page), whereas in physics 3-4 pages is the norm but exposition tends to be more telegraphic. Here is an example of a good, short paper which is about standard for physics.