In 1974, the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis published a scientific article by author Dennis Upper with the length of the article content .... less than 1 word. This is quite surprising to the reader, but "fits" with the title of the article "The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of "Writer's Block". ideas"). What's even more interesting is that when author Dennis Upper submitted the manuscript, this journal quickly accepted publication without any further editing by the author.
Link to the article here for Schofan who are curious to confirm more: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1311997/
Thank you Dai-Long Ngo-Hoang for mentioning it. I didn't even know about it but Google tells me it has 106 citations!
A really interesting case. The author, the editor and the reviewer obviously had a good sense of humor. From astronomy, I know of one publication that consisted of only one sentence, but this appeared in the journal "Astronomische Nachrichten" about 90 years ago, when the form of articles was less formalized.
