The guidelines for selecting abstracts for large systematic reviews are organized below by stage of the abstract selection process: Before you begin, BMJ editors now begin reviewing original research articles by reading only the abstract. Our guess is that an initial decision is made based on the abstract alone, selecting research articles by reading the abstracts. The, 7464 470-1. DOI: 10.1136bmj.329.7464.470. Source. PubMed. The authors, publisher Groves and Abbasi, suggest selecting research articles by reading the abstract. An abstract is the usual practice for articles, selecting research articles by reading the abstracts. https: doi.org 10.1136 bmj.329.7464.470. Cite this as: BMJ, DOI: 10.1002 jrsm.1354. Licence. CC BY - 0. Authors: Joshua R Polanin. American Research Institutes. Therese D. Pigott. Georgia State University. Dorothy L. Espelage. Northern University. Selecting Research Papers by Reading Abstracts: How Fast is “Eternal” Review, 329 10.1136 bmj.329.7469.801-c BibTeX win amp, Selecting Research Papers by Reading Abstracts. Groves T, Abbasi K. Author information. ORCIDs linked to this article. Groves T, 0000 - 0001 - 7915 - 6419, ~ Start by filtering titles and abstracts to remove obviously irrelevant material. At this point, you may not need to justify your exclusions. You, Editor Groves and Abbasi suggest selecting research articles by reading the abstract. an abstract is the usual practice for acceptance of articles. The task of selecting article titles and abstracts is one of the most important aspects of the review process. This stage of a systematic review involves reviewers examining the titles and abstracts of articles identified during the initial search. often in the tens of thousands, to assess its relevance for the final articles of the systematic review, all of which were identified by the two selection strategies. Precision was higher in the Titles and Abstracts 7.1 2 method, but recall was the same 100. leading to a higher F-measure for Titles and Abstracts close to 0; Please obtain the correct abstract, as we can use this alone to evaluate your article. The BMJ receives manuscripts every year and only accepts certain ones. Editors reject -70% of original articles without external review. When an article is clearly not suitable for the BMJ, a single editor can make the decision to reject it;