A short summary of research findings or planned work submitted to a conference for selection of oral or poster presentation, published in a conference abstract book or supplement, citable as a publication but typically lacking full peer review of the underlying research.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
An ASCO 2023 abstract published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology supplement

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A full peer-reviewed conference paper in proceedings is not a conference abstract

Editorial commentary

Conference abstracts are useful for time-stamping priority of findings and recording presentation activity, but conventionally not counted alongside peer-reviewed journal articles or full conference papers in research assessment. ICMJE allows conference-abstract pre-publication of results that will subsequently appear in a journal.

References

ICMJE Recommendations on duplicate publication and conference abstracts
NLM Indexing of Conference Abstracts

Also known as

Meeting abstract · Abstract publication

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="Conference abstract"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/conference-abstract" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

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  "description": "A short summary of research findings or planned work submitted to a conference for selection of oral or poster presentation, published in a conference abstract book or supplement, citable as a publication but typically lacking full peer review of the underlying research.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/research-outputs#set",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/conference-abstract",
  "sameAs": [
    "Meeting abstract",
    "Abstract publication"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "publisher": {
    "@id": "https://casrai.org/#organization"
  },
  "dateModified": "2026-05-21T02:06:54",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}

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