BMJ 2004;329:801 (2 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7469.801-b
Letter
Screening research papers by reading abstracts
Idea seems reasonable
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EDITOR—Groves and Abbasi propose screening research papers by reading the abstract.1 Submitting an abstract is the usual practice for paper acceptance at scientific meetings, so this proposal seems reasonable.
The question is, will the BMJ allow authors simply to submit an abstract for screening and then invite them to submit the full paper for consideration if the paper gets past this hurdle? This will concentrate the minds of the authors and will avoid some of the problems with abstracts that the editorial lists.
S S Musheer Hussain, consultant otolaryngologist
Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY musheerhussain@btinternet.com
Competing interests: None declared.
- Groves T, Abbasi K. Screening research papers by reading abstracts. BMJ
2004;329: 470-1. (28 August.)
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