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In terms of efficiency, managing the effects of overpublising (the sheer volume of new papers published each week) has become seriously challenging for science communication researchers. This comment analyzes causes and consequences of this situation and proposes to research journals to take into considerations the following elements: a) special attention to headline and abstract, b) more visible and updated keywords and c) a clear structure of content and a shortening of the average number of pages per paper. I’ve been working on scientific communication for almost two decades. Throughout this time I have been a witness and a participant of deep changes in the communication of science and in science itself. The formats and channels have changed, but also the dimensions of what is communicated (that is, the number of scientific papers published). We, as science communicators, often adapt very well to new formats and channels: we were among the first professionals to use e-mail, as well as to publish and browse Internet contents, blogging and microblogging, participate in social networks, or use mobile telephony, smartphones, apps, and tablets. However, if changes in the “how” can be easy and even exciting for us, science communicators and science communication researchers, changes in the “how much” (the sheer volume of new papers published each week) can become exasperating. “I’m worried about the pressure of young scientists for publishing nonstop,” said Philip Campbell, editor of Nature, in an interview published by SINC 1 (the Spanish Agency of Science News). Certainly, young scientists, pressured by the need to compete in their academic career, have an uncontrollable desire to publish. But besides this higher "offer" by the researchers, overpublishing is also due to changes that have occurred in the industry of research journals itself. Among others, in the last 20 years this industry has experienced a substantial time shortening of the process of submission, review and publication of manuscripts (mainly due to higher efficiency of online applications), an unprecedented explosion in the number of new journals going to market (due to movements such as digital publishing and open access) and an almost limitless increase in the access to scientific journals contents from any place of the world (although dramatic differences between countries).

While changes in the “how” are exciting, changes in the “how much” could be exasperating