Discussion and analysis on key words indexing and abstract writing methods of atmospheric science academic papers

Random statistics samples of 605 papers in 50 issues including 18 core journals and 15 provincial journals of atmospheric science show that there are about 38% of the key words or abstract writing is not standardized. In order to improve writing quality of academic papers, the problems and solutions of key words and abstracts in atmospheric science papers were discussed. The main conclusions are as following. The key words mainly have shortcomings in such aspects as selecting common words, omitting subject words, the inappropriate depth of indexing, key word in permutation being in disorder, etc. The abstract has the following shortcomings: the basic elements are incomplete, the improper information is embedded, and the results are general and vague. This study points out that: the selection of key words should be mainly based on the order words in the Chinese Thesaurus, which can be appropriately matched with the scientific and technological terms and proper nouns in the new interdisciplinary, new theory and new technology, and general words should be avoided; The key words should follow the principle of "accurate selection and complete selection". Key words should be extracted from the title, abstract, level title and even the text, which can fully express the theme of the paper and have retrieval value, the number of keywords should be 4-5 and their order should follow certain logical rules. The abstract should contain four elements: purpose, method, result and conclusion; avoid using the first person, embedding background knowledge, self-opinion and subjective evaluation; the result (conclusion) part should be logical, meaningful and quantitative, so that readers can see the core value of the paper through the research results. The article also gives four steps to extract the four elements of the abstract and three common writing formats of atmospheric science academic papers.