Structured Abstracts for Technical Journals
Abstract
Our reading of thousands of technical journal abstracts in myriad disciplines shows substantial information non-uniformity in the nonmedical records' abstracts. They can vary in information volume, information categories, and information clarity. Commonly, research purpose, results achieved, and
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Structured abstracts provide higher quality and more information, could be easier to read, search, and facilitate peer review, and are welcomed by readers/authors.
“Structured abstracts provide higher quality and more information, could be easier to read, search, and facilitate peer review, and are welcomed by readers/authors [41–43].”
From Reporting quality of abstracts of systematic reviews/meta-analyses: An appraisal of Arab Journal of Urology across 12 years: the PRISMA-Abstracts checklist (2023) · cites this paper as [42]
Cites
Gutzwiller, F., & Paccaud, F. (1987) · PubMed · Cited by 240 · see citing works
Flagged first, then by citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Citation analysis of research performer quality
Kostoff, R. N. (2002) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1023/a:1014831920172 · Cited by 78 · see citing works
Self-citationQuality of Abstracts in 3 Clinical Dermatology Journals
Dupuy, A., Khosrotehrani, K., Lebbé, C., Rybojad, M., & Morel, P. (2003) · Archives of Dermatology · doi:10.1001/archderm.139.5.589 · Cited by 48 · see citing works
KOSTOFF, R. N. (2002) · BioScience · doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2002)052[0937:os]2.0.co;2 · Cited by 39 · see citing works
Self-citationRole of Technical Literature in Science and Technology Development and Exploitation
Kostoff, R. N. (2003) · Journal of Information Science · doi:10.1177/01655515030293010 · Cited by 14 · see citing works
Self-citationKostoff, R. N., & Hartley, J. R. (2002) · Journal of Information Science · doi:10.1177/016555150202800308 · Cited by 7 · see citing works
Self-citationEl Ansari, W., AlRumaihi, K., El-Ansari, K., Arafa, M., Elbardisi, H., Majzoub, A., Shamsodini, A., & Al Ansari, A. (2023) · Arab Journal of Urology · doi:10.1080/2090598x.2022.2113127 · Cited by 6 · see citing works
Network cards: concise, readable summaries of network data
Bagrow, J. P., & Ahn, Y. (2022) · Applied Network Science · doi:10.1007/s41109-022-00514-7 · Cited by 6 · see citing works
Research Program Peer Review: Purposes, Principles, Practices, Protocols
Kostoff, R. N. (2004) · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · Cited by 6 · see citing works
Self-citationScience and Technology Text Mining: Global Technology Watch
Kostoff, R. N. (2003) · doi:10.21236/ada415863 · Cited by 6 · see citing works
Self-citationNever mind the impact factor: colleagues know better!
Hartley, J. R. (2009) · Learned Publishing · doi:10.1087/20100111 · Cited by 5 · see citing works
Self-citationScience and Technology Text Mining: Cross-Disciplinary Innovation
Kostoff, R. N. (2003) · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · Cited by 4 · see citing works
Self-citationCimino, T., Lach, L. M., Mechan, K., Saini, M., Nimigon-Young, J., McNeill, T., Nicholas, D., & Rosenbaum, P. (2011) · Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work · doi:10.1080/15433714.2010.531228 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
Science and Technology Text Mining: Origins of Database Tomography and Multi-Word Phrase Clustering
Kostoff, R. N. (2003) · doi:10.21236/ada416268 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
Self-citationKostoff, R. N., Eberhart, H. J., Toothman, D. R., & Pellenbarg, R. E. (2003) · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · Cited by 1 · see citing works
Self-citationStructured Abstracts: The Time Has Come for the Journal of Biomedical Optics!
Pogue, B. W. (2019) · Journal of Biomedical Optics · doi:10.1117/1.jbo.24.10.100101 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
Hartley, J. R. (2010) · Journal of Scholarly Publishing · doi:10.1353/scp.0.0086
Self-citationClinical papers writing and required Information Literacy.
SUWABE, N. (2005) · Igaku Toshokan · doi:10.7142/igakutoshokan.52.53
- Authors
- Kostoff, R. N., & Hartley, J.
- Affiliations
- Office of Naval Research (US)
- Keele University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Kostoff, Ronald N.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2001-05-11
- Volume
- 292
- Issue
- 5519
- Pages
- 1067-1067
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2056264053
- Cited by
- 17
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2022: 2 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 24.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Academic Writing and Publishing
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Keywords
- structured abstracts, information clarity, purpose of research, research outcomes, information categories
- MeSH terms
- Periodicals as Topic, Publishing, Writing
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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