Nevertheless, a colleague recently sent me a physics paper that sets the new standard for shortest scientific abstract.
Now I like a short abstract, but that's ridiculous (although it gets right to the point)! Aim for something closer to what Nature suggests below.
Jim, you can rest assured that the AMS has a solution. I am not sure that there was a problem with the length of abstracts growing too long (reviewers could always recommend shortening if too long), but now you won't be able to upload an abstract for a manuscript greater than 250 words.
ReplyDeleteGood. I've seen some 4 paragraph abstracts lately...which is insane.
ReplyDeleteApparently you can use a super secret proprietary system to forecast up to a year in advance.
ReplyDeleteI love how they call it "science"! How about some verification? Oh wait, it's proprietary so they can't release the results...