The phrase "startling paper" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a paper or article that is surprising or shocking in its content or findings.
Example: "The researcher published a startling paper that challenged long-held beliefs in the field of genetics."
Alternatives: "shocking article" or "surprising study."
In 1997, a startling paper appeared in the journal Nature, reporting that, contrary to the expectations and observations of most primatologists, female chimpanzees were sneaking off and mating furtively with males outside their social set.
He also reviewed my latest book, A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization, but told me I'd overlooked an important early work – 'A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, Report of the UN High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change.' Last month, Steele presented a startling paper at the Libtech conference in New York, sponsored by the Internet Society and Reclaim.
Such spurious correlations are often recorded in journals eager for startling papers.
The more startling a paper's claims, the more likely it is that others will try to replicate it and, if the claims were specious, fail.
The Chicago Tribune's endorsement, while not as eloquent, is more startling: the paper's editorial views remains conservative, though much more moderately so than in the days of Colonel McCormick.
There's Amy Studt, 21, sometime fallen teenage upstart returning as a goth-pop torch-singer with the startling 'My Paper-Made Man'.
The peer reviewers found the results of this paper startling, unexpected, and ranked it as one of the most influential papers in the neurosciences published all year.Technically, the experimental techniques used on laboratory mice to measure changes in brain status in vivo during sleep and waking hours were extremely challenging, novel, and cutting edge.
Similarly, Nature employs a large editorial staff to manage the peer-review process and to select and polish "startling and new" papers for publication, said Dr. Clarke, its editor.
"It is startling to see a paper without age-specific death rates," Dr. Freedman said, because without them it is impossible to assess the scientists' conclusions that the increased deaths were solely because of more elderly people.
Recently, a Jewish woman walked into a Southern California Walgreens and spotted on a Hanukah wrapping paper a startling discovery: a pattern with bunches of interlocking swastikas in tight formation.
The document's 18,456 words can be summed up in the words "hey, who knew?" From its very first sentence, Greenspan's paper is startling in its unwillingness to see the truth.
