Also known as summary and content summary, it means to extract or extract the main points. It is a short article, which concisely and accurately describes the important contents of the literature, without comments or supplementary explanations.

It is the window for readers to explore your research. A good abstract can arouse readers' interest in in-depth reading, and may also win the favor of periodical editors in the first place. Therefore, writing a good abstract is definitely an important part of the smooth publication of the paper.

Extended data:

It should be self-evident and have the same amount of information as the literature, that is, you can get the necessary information without reading the full text. A complete paper needs an abstract. The main functions of the abstract are:

(1) Let readers know the main contents of the paper as soon as possible to supplement the deficiency of the topic. Modern scientific and technological literature information is vast, whether readers will read the full text after searching the title of the paper is mainly judged by reading the abstract; Therefore, the abstract is responsible for attracting readers and introducing the main contents of the article to readers.

(2) It provides convenience for the construction and maintenance of scientific and technological information literature retrieval database. After the paper is published, abstract magazines or various databases can directly use the abstract without modification or slight modification, thus avoiding misunderstandings, deficiencies and even mistakes that may occur when others write the abstract.

With the rapid development of computer technology and Internet, online query, retrieval and download of professional data has become an important means of scientific and technological information retrieval. Various full-text databases and abstract databases on the Internet are increasingly showing the level and development trend of information exchange in modern society. At the same time, the index of abstracts is an important tool for readers to retrieve documents. Therefore, the quality of abstracts directly affects the retrieval rate and citation frequency of papers.