Statistics and analysis of abstracts in forestry sci-tech periodicals
Xiao Zhang · 2002
s as a necessity in sci tech academic periodicals.In order to understand status quo of different type of abstracts,statistics was carried out concerning the number of abstracts and words in 9 forestry periodicals published in 2000.80% of articles in four periodicals had abstract of their own,but in some periodicals,above 60% of articles didnt have any.In A category articles,the range of the number of different type abstracts belonged to reported abstract reproted indicated abstractindicated abstract;In B category articles,reported indicated abstractindicated abstract reported abstract;In C category articles,indicated abstractreported indicated abstractreported abstract .Average words of reported abstracts,reported indicated abstract and indicated abstract were 190 2,117 5 and 77 7,respectively.Multiple comparisons showed that there were obvious differences among words of different types of abstracts.The words of abstracts were not only related to the abstract types,but also to information content in original documents and complex degree of researched objects.For an article,the reported abstract should have its uniqueness.