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Common weaknesses in traditional abstracts in the social sciences

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  • James Hartley
  • Lucy Betts

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Detailed checklists and questionnaires have been used in the past to assess the quality of structured abstracts in the medical sciences. The aim of this article is to report the findings when a simpler checklist was used to evaluate the quality of 100 traditional abstracts published in 53 different social science journals. Most of these abstracts contained information about the aims, methods, and results of the studies. However, many did not report details about the sample sizes, ages, or sexes of the participants, or where the research was carried out. The correlation between the lengths of the abstracts and the amount of information present was 0.37 (p

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  • James Hartley & Lucy Betts, 2009. "Common weaknesses in traditional abstracts in the social sciences," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 60(10), pages 2010-2018, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:60:y:2009:i:10:p:2010-2018
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.21102
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    4. James Hartley & Guillaume Cabanac, 2017. "Thirteen Ways to Write an Abstract," Publications, MDPI, vol. 5(2), pages 1-7, May.

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