The brevity of an abstract belies its importance to a manuscript. It’s what catches a reader’s attention and helps them to decide whether a paper is relevant. Yet failing to reflect the content of the ...

An abstract is a summary of a piece of academic writing. The abstract appears in multiple locations, including at the start of a publication, in conference proceedings, and in electronic databases.

This blog introduces a series of occasional blogs that will investigate the accuracy of abstracts of journal articles. As we will see in the series, abstracts are often quite misleading and tend to ...