Hi folks,
I suggest that we need an "abstract" category on ResearchGate if folks really want to bother putting abstracts on here. I have had a few of my student coauthors request to add their abstracts on here and I'm not comfortable putting them here.
I don't put abstracts here because "abstract" is not the same as "Conference paper". My reasons.....numbered to facilitate discussion:
1. Meeting abstracts do sometimes lead to publications in conference proceedings. To me, this final product is a "conference paper".
2. Often, meeting abstracts do not yield papers. So the abstract in a proceedings is an "abstract" but certainly not a "conference paper".
3. If I list an abstract as a "conference paper" and an investigator requests full text, all they will get is the abstract.
4. The extent of abstract peer review varies from local to regional to national or international meetings, and is very field specific. In my own field for example, it is vanishingly rare to have an abstract rejected.
5. If the scores on RG have any meaning (do they?) then they are currently measuring very different things. Because many investigators list abstracts as "conference papers" and others ignore them (like me).
Well, clearly I'm trying to avoid grading some papers (or abstracts), but I would be curious how others feel.
Cheers
Declan
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