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Subject Slanting in Scientific Abstracting Publications
Subject Slanting in Scientific Abstracting Publications
Pages 407-428
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Various assemblages, including the Royal Society Scientific Information Conference, the Unesco International Conference on Science Abstracting, and, more recently, a meeting of the major American abstracting publications, have given careful and detailed consideration to ~nter-agency cooperation. One question which arises in connection with the feasibility of the common use and exchange of abstracts is whether abstracts In the various abstracting publications diner so greatly in structure, content, and emphasis as to necessitate independent preparation, or whether they are similar enough to permit cooperation or exchange.
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- Each paper was checked against the 1955 and 1956 indexes of the nine indexing and abstracting publications under study, which were as follows: Applied Mechanics Reviews, Biological Abstracts, British Abstracts of Medical Sciences (now International Abstracts of Biological Sciences\', Chemical Abstracts, Electrical Engineering Abstracts, Geological Abstracts, Mathematical Reviews, Nuclear Science Abstracts, and Physics Abstracts. These abstracting publications were selected as being the foremost in the eight subject fields of the journals whose papers were to be analyzed, and because each was thought to cover publications in two or more of the subjects under study.
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In addition to the descriptive records which were kept for the abstracts in the abstracting publications, analyses were made of all author abstracts or summaries appearing in the original papers. These author abstracts or summaries were given the same descriptive treatment as the abstracts in the abstracting publications.
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In the course of the preparation of the sets of abstracts, it became strikingly evident that there was a strong resemblance between the abstracts or summaries that appeared in the specimen papers and the abstracts in the abstracting publications. This resemblance prevailed regardless of whether the abstracts in the abstracting publications were marked as author abstracts or whether they were signed by abstracters other than the authors of the papers.
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Further indication of the use to which author abstracts or summaries are put by abstracting publications is obtained from an analysis of the treatment of another paper, entitled, "Determination of Sodium Content of Human Sweat by Radioactive Sodium 24," by Decker, Genkins. and Braunwald.
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It consists of administering radioactive Na to subjects and after equilibrium is obtained, inducing a local flow of sweat by subdermal injections of Mecholyl Chloride. Sweat so produced is collected with filter paper discs sealed in a collecting device.
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Thus, long, detailed papers get author abstracts or refinements of author abstracts in the abstracting publications, while letters to the editor ant! the like get original abstracts when they are abstracted.
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As it developed, there were 17 cases in which only one of the abstracting publications abstracted a paper and the others merely gave it a reference citation. Among the remaining 38 papers, there were 11 clear cases of subject slanting and 27 in which no slanting was detectable.
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2. Because of the heavy dependence on author abstracts as bases for abstracts in indexing and abstracting publications, a paradox develops in which short papers and letters to the editor, which generally do not have author abstracts, have the greatest likelihood of receiving original abstracts, while longer, more detailed papers have the smallest likelihood of original abstracting, because they generally do have author abstracts.
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, Proceedings Nature (London) Nuovo cimento Pfluger's Archiv fur die gesamte Physiologie Philosophical Magazine Physica Physical Review Physical Society of London, Proceedings Plant Physiology Review of Scientific Instruments Reviews of Modern Physics Royal Society of London, Proceedings Science Societe chimique de France, Bulletin Societe de Biologie, Paris, Comptes rendus 19 3 15 6 4 3 11 2 4 7 13 18 10 2 3 2 5 3 2 4 30 6 2 5 3 30 6 5 6 2 9 15 .
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Andriliat, Henri, Sur la Mesure des Intensites Relatives des Raies de O III et de la Raie H@ dans les Spectres des Nebuleuses Planetaires, Comptes rendus, Academie dies Sciences, 240, 491-93 (1955~. Avignon, Yvette, and Simone Desprez-Rebauc3, Etude, au Moyen de ['Emulsion Sensible, du Libre Parcours Moyen d'Absorption de la Composante Nucleairede RaYonnement Cosmique, Comptes rendlus, Aca(lemie dies Sciences, 240, 515-17 , (1955~.
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E Hoff, Transmedullary Stimulation of Central Respiratory Mechanism in apnea, American Journal of Physiology, 180, 219-31 (1955~.
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Crussard, Jean, et al., Observation d'un Meson Lourd du Type ~ Charge dans les Emulsions Exposees au Rayonnement Cosmique, Comptes rendus, Acadlemie des Sciences, 240, 261-64 (1955~. Cuer, Pierre, et al., Nouvelles Preuves Experimentales sur ['Existence de SousStructures Instantanees dans les Noyaux Legers de ['Emulsion Photographique vis-a-vis des Nucleons Energiques, Comptes rendus, Aca~lemie dies Sciences, 240, 75-7 (1955~.
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Fukushima, David K., et al., The Characterization of Four New Metabolites of Adrenocortical Hormones, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 212, 449-60 (1955~. Garb, Solomon, et al., Species Differences in the Utilization of Glucose for Contractile Force by Isolated Perfused Hearts, American Journal of Physiology, 180' 103-106 (1955~.
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. Haeusler, Claude, Etalonnage de la Bande de l' ammoniac a 1.98~, Comptes rendus, Academic des Sciences, 240, 507-508 (1955~.
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III. BE Absorption at Varied Intrinsic Factor Doses, Proceedings of the Societyfor Experimental Biology and Medicine, 88, 1-5 (1955~.
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Lehmann, Pierre, and Jacques Miller, Interaction Quadrupolaire dans Cdii1, Comptes rendus, Acadlemie des Sciences, 240, 298-99 (1955~. Lipton, Murray M., and Alex I
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Bowen, Incorporation of Acetate into Fatty Acic3 by Liver Slices of Adrenalectomized Rats, American Journal of Physiology, 180, 21-22 (1955~. Porter, Richard F., et al., Mass Spectrometric Study of Gaseous Species in the SiSiO2 System, journal of Chemical Physics, 23, 216-17 (1955~.
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Farah, Post-Stimulation Potentiation of Contractility in the Isolated Auricle of the Rabbit, American Journal of Physiology, 180, 75-82 (1955~. Rothstein, Jerome, Dislocation Model of Liquids, Journal of Chemical Physics, 23, 218-19 (1955~.
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S., and U Wenck, Local Inflammatory Response Produced by Solutions Sterilized with Asbestos Type Fitters, Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, 88, 89-93 (1955~.
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R Robbins, The Effect of Different Iron and Manganese Nutrient Levels on the Catalase and Cytochrome Oxidase Activities of Green and Albino Sunflower Leaf Tissues, Plant Physiology, 30, 27-32 (1955~.
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