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Write and sharpen research paper titles, abstracts (structured and unstructured), keywords, highlights, significance statements, graphical-abstract text and lay summaries. Use when drafting or revising an abstract to a word limit, turning results into a one-sentence contribution, choosing between candidate titles, writing Cell/Elsevier highlights, a PNAS significance statement or a plain-language summary, or optimizing discoverability (keywords, search terms).

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# Titles, Abstracts and Summary Text

Most readers, editors and reviewers decide from the title and abstract alone.
They are also what search engines and indexing services see. Write them last,
from the finished results, and revise them more than any other part of the paper.

## Inputs to collect first

- The single main finding, with its key number (effect size, accuracy, p-value/CI, sample size).
- The target venue's limits: abstract word count, structured vs. unstructured, title length,
  keyword count, highlights/significance requirements. **Look these up in the venue's current
  author guidelines** (the `venue-templates` skill and journal-format skills help). Never assume.
- Who reads it: specialists (field venue) or broad scientists (Nature, Science, PNAS).