Scientific abstracts: Texts, contexts, and subtexts

In their 4000-year history, abstracts have taken several forms and represented a variety of documents. The scientific journal emerged in the 1600s and gave rise to what would become the modern scientific abstract. Here, I describe the contexts in which abstracts evolved, address the subtexts of opin...

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Main Author: Thomas A. Lang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2022-11-01
Series:European Science Editing
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Online Access:https://ese.arphahub.com/article/85616/download/pdf/