Not all journals grab the same readers

I always enjoyed stopping by this doctor’s desk because he had a passion for forensics, and the academic journals he collected featured articles like "Heroin Fatality Due to Penile Injection," and "Sudden Death After a Cold Drink." Compared to those titles, "Apoptosis in Nontumorous and Neoplastic Human Pituitaries: Expression of the Bcl-2 Family of Proteins" didn’t stand a chance of holding my attention. Wouldn’t you rather read "Suicide by Pipe Bomb: A Case Report"? I would—and I did.

Judy Melinek, M.D. & T.J. Mitchell, Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (New York: Scribner: 2014), p. 15.

Another limitation of scholarly publications

These data rarely make it into publication—I'm sorry to report that we don't yet have research journals that embrace multimedia enough to reproduce audio recordings. Admittedly, it's a very particular complaint, but I've always thought this is a shame. 

Seth S. Horowitz, The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind (New York: Bloomsbury, 2012), ch. 11