Obtaining information accurately and quickly: are structured abstracts more efficient?
- 1 October 1996
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Information Science
- Vol. 22 (5) , 349-356
- https://doi.org/10.1177/016555159602200503
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Structured abstracts - which, like the present one, contain several subheadings - have replaced traditional abstracts in most medical journals. Evaluation studies have shown that such abstracts usually provide more information, are of a higher quality, facilitate peer review and are generally welcomed.Keywords
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