Doing an advanced search for a word and specify "In the abstract" for "where my words occurr" will bring up articles that do not have an abstract

[zmclaughlin]

Example:

Go to:  http://plosmedicine-demo.plos.org

Do an advanced search: for at least one of the words: Schistosomiasis where my word occur: In the abstract

description:( Schistosomiasis )

The search results will bring up:

Model-Based Insights into Multi-Host Transmission and Control of Schistosomiasis Song Liang, Robert C Spear Perspective, published 22 Jan 2008 | doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050023

 http://plosmedicine-demo.plos.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0050023

Which is a perspective article and has no abstract

These three issues might be related #1322 & #1249 & #1455

[zmclaughlin]

This is still happening in solr search. Even did direct solr search - abstract:("schistosomiasis")  http://plossearch-demo.plos.org:8983/solr/select/?q=abstract%3A(%22schistosomiasis%22)&version=2.2&start=0&rows=10&indent=on and it brings back articles without an abstract.

[dragisak]

The article seems to have an abstract and "Schistosomiasis" is the first word:

[dragisak]

Abstract containing "Schistosomiasis"

[zmclaughlin]

That section is not labeled abstract so what makes you designate it the abstract?

[dragisak]

It's indexed as an abstract. Possibly our indexing needs to change.

[dragisak]

Some abstracts have a title saying "Abstract" and some not. We decided to show articles regardless if they have that title or not.

[zmclaughlin]

The XML does contain an abstract and it does contain the word "Schistosomiasis" so even though it's not displayed on the screen the article is considered to have an abstract.