To express your research ideas in research paper 250 to 300 words can be used in Abstract.
The journal guidelines specify the word count of the abstract and also the structure of the abstract.
•Many journals now require abstracts to be prepared in an: Organized format / Structured abstract, (≤500) words. But some other journals require only 300 words as already mentioned in the previous answers.
Most journal will specify the number of words for their abstracts. A good abstract should be 250-300 words for an article for publication. For a full thesis you may require up to 500 words.
There are three kinds of abstracts.
Informative abstract- 200 to 250
words
Descriptive Abstract- 100-150 words
Critical abstract- 400 to 600 words.
You may refer to my book on “Abstract Writing Made Simple”
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