DEGRADING QUALITY OF ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTATIONS AT SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES

The quality of abstracts and presentations at many scientific conferences calls for immediate attention and upgrade. Scientists who value quality would easily pick out how many scientific societies/associations might have being putting more interest on the quantity (numbers) rather than the quality of both the abstracts they accept and the presentations made at the scientific sections of their conferences. Similar concern about such low abstracts qualities can be inferred (indirectly) from the publications by Scherer et al. [1], Pless and Rivara [2], Gandhi and Gilbert [3], etc. These poor research, abstracts, and presentation qualities essentially prevent majority of those studies from being finally published in peer review journals [4]..............................[See the full text]