The deadline to submit abstracts for the 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (18WCEE), the quadrennial venue to share earthquake engineering ideas and research, is right around the corner. Noting that 93% of statistics are made up, WCEE abstracts have an 80% acceptance rate; however, some of the ensuing papers are impactful. And in many … Continue reading Abstract Frenzy
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Abstract Thoughts
Abstracts are an important part of scholarly publications. Journal editors select reviewers based on the abstract, conference organizers select presentations and invite full length papers based on an abstract (sometimes an extended abstract), and online databases crawl the abstract when indexing search results. In this post, I will give my two cents on journal abstracts. … Continue reading Abstract Thoughts