Jeroen Bosman1/2 Abstracts from scholarly papers need to be open information and thus deposited by publishers in Crossref @crossref for any other system to use. Many big publishers still do not do this (https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/smxe5_v2, page 10). But the situation is better than in 2020 (https://www.crossref.org/blog/open-abstracts-where-are-we/).
2/2 @crossref Wiley, IOP, Frontiers, @PLOS , AIP and even WoltersKluwer that had zero abstracts in Crossref in 2020 are now depositing these openly. But Elsevier, ACS, IEEE, Taylor & Francis. APA, ASCE and (most of) SpringerNature are still not doing this. Authors: ask editors about this, it will boost your paper's visibility. Libraries: demand this in negotiations. It will make scholarly communication for effective. (image from the 2025 Van Eck & Waltman paper)
