Posted on 05 Nov 2022

New open access study: plain language summary

What terminology are health journals using to refer to plain language summaries of peer reviewed manuscripts?

A new open access study published last week shows 18/27 (66.7%) journals with plain language summary information in author instructions are using the term “plain language summary”.

See the full study in the link provided, and key results in Table 2: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40271-022-00606-7