A 300-word journal abstract that has been criticised by experts has been falsely cited by a British doctor as proof that mRNA vaccines are “murder”. Sign up here. The passage, he said, was “all I, you ...

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 ...

Busy cardiologists may sheepishly admit that they only have time to read the abstracts of published randomized controlled trials rather than digging into the full results. But two recent studies ...

Higher ratings for AI-authored abstracts should not obscure the need for engaging prose with a “human touch,” says study co-author. Journal abstracts written with the help of artificial intelligence ...

Matthews is a fellow of science and technology policy at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Russell is the Huffington fellow in child health and L.E. Simmons senior fellow in health ...

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 ...

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 ...