&gt; There is little incentive to spending time making one&#x27;s work understandable to a wider audience.<p>I wonder if there&#x27;s a way to create incentive here? Or perhaps even a need to fill for the academics who are poor at explaining their work? Maybe some kind of layman&#x27;s explanation service for technical papers with the authors&#x27; hope that by better explaining their research, they might be able to gain a wider audience or be more often referenced?