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How to avoid scope creep when building supplementary materials alongside you...
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Supplementary appendices can easily grow uncontrolled. Researchers keep adding extra analyses which are tangential to core claims. Bloated supplements make them hard for readers to navigate. What rules help you keep supplementary content focused and compact?
Anthony Anderson, Martin and 13 others4 Comments-
Every supplementary item should have clear direct relevance to some core manuscript claim.
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Do not dump every single secondary exploratory run just because you computed it.
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Ask: would readers reasonably need this material to evaluate main‑paper conclusions?
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Archive truly extraneous exploratory outputs elsewhere, do not push them into appendices.
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