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To the Editor: The editorial "The Internet and the Journal" (June 22 issue)¹ addresses the pros and cons of electronic "publishing" of articles on the Internet. You mentioned abstracts in passing, but the specter of electronic publishing of abstracts raises even more serious questions.

Any flaws in the proposal for electronic publication of articles would be magnified enormously for electronic abstract publication. The selection process for abstracts already has demonstrable shortcomings. One study found that abstracts frequently were never published, and if they were it was only after a long interval. The number of citations of abstracts (a measure . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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