Brazilian Scientific Journals in Surgery: quality control in the abstract structure of non-experimental articles
Acta cir. bras
;
28(1): 84-87, jan. 2013. tab
Artículo
en Inglés
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| ID: lil-662353
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
To evaluate the quality of abstracts of original non-experimental research articles in Brazilian Journals in Surgery.METHODS:
Convenience sample of 471 abstracts of original research articles from six Brazilian surgical journals indexed in Thomson Reuters (ISI) Web of Knowledge. The quality of abstracts was measured against a checklist of eight evaluation criteria, which were divided into 32 categories. The total score for each abstract was obtained by summing the score of all criteria present. The overall mean score was also determined.RESULTS:
The overall mean score of abstract quality was that of a good abstract. Most of the abstracts contained some information from each of the eight basic categories of an abstract. All abstracts were structured ones.CONCLUSION:
The overall quality, for abstracts of original articles of six Brazilian non-experimental journals in surgery, was classified as good.
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LILACS (Américas)
Asunto principal:
Publicaciones Periódicas como Asunto
/
Cirugía General
/
Indización y Redacción de Resúmenes
Límite:
Humanos
País/Región como asunto:
America del Sur
/
Brasil
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
Acta cir. bras
Asunto de la revista:
Cirugía General
/
Procedimentos Cir£rgicos Operat¢rios
Año:
2013
Tipo del documento:
Artículo
País de afiliación:
Brasil
Institución/País de afiliación:
Rio de Janeiro Federal University/BR
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