More than half of clinical trial abstracts published in top psychiatry and psychology journals that were negative for the primary outcome exaggerated the clinical significance of a particular ...

With thousands of journals now available over the Web, abstracts have become “ever-popular, even in cases where the user has complete full-text access,” write three researchers at University College ...

In a bid to boost the reach and reuse of scientific results, a group of scholarly publishers has pledged to make abstracts of research papers free to read in a cross-disciplinary repository. Most ...

In many a medical journal, articles are now introduced by an abstract or summary of their substance. This practice — if well done — is indispensable to the busy reader who must be selective as he ...

Steven Gundry, MD, was the sole author of a research abstract published in Circulation, an American Heart Association journal. This abstract has since been labeled with an Expression of Concern.