Besides the problem with the lack of incentive for the author, I also think that it would be hard to get people to read these kind of publications. Quite often there is more than enough published in your little niche that you could read all the time and still not keep up. Building an argument for why you should additionally read something about other fields is quite hard.<p>At my research institute we have talks for a &quot;general&quot; audience as you described once a month. But they weren&#x27;t popular at all until we decided to also sponsor a lunch with each of these talks.