This leads me to a different path. Some (most?) papers require an almost absurd amount of context; in the extremes, single digit audiences with the knowledge to understand.
Perhaps putting that context into publications would be more effective?
Perhaps putting that context into publications would be more effective?
But research publishing is a traditionally internal dialog among people who ostensibly spent years being inducted into a common contextual foundation.
Post-web journalism and open access publishing might be challenging that tradition, but the answer is probably not to staple an introductory textbook to every paper.
It's called introduction