Arch Dermatol
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Structured abstracts have been widely adopted in medical journals, with little demonstration of their superiority over unstructured abstracts. ⋯ The quality of abstracts differed across the 3 tested journals. Unstructured abstracts were demonstrated to be of lower quality compared with structured abstracts and may account for the differences in quality scores among the journals. The structured format should be more widely adopted in dermatology journals.