Addiction. 2013 Sep;108(9):1532-3. doi: 10.1111/add.12227. Epub 2013 May 30.
Advancement in science requires clarity of constructs.Like other fields in behavioral science, addiction research is being held back by researchers' use of different terms to mean similar things (synonymy) and the same term to mean different things (polysemy). Journals can help researchers to stay focused on novel and significant research questions by challenging new terms introduced without adequate justification and requiring authors to be parsimonious in their use of terms. To support construct lucidity, new modes of thinking about research integration are needed to keep up with the aggregate of relevant research.
科学的进步需要概念的清晰。与行为科学的其他领域一样，由于研究人员使用不同的术语来表示相似的事物（同义词）和使用相同的术语来表示不同的事物（多义词），成瘾研究的进展受到了阻碍。期刊可以通过挑战没有充分理由引入的新术语，并要求作者在使用术语时保持简洁，来帮助研究人员专注于新颖和重要的研究问题。为了支持概念的明晰性，需要新的研究整合思维模式来跟上相关研究的总和。
