Study on the Difference between Summary Peer Reviews and Abstracts of Scientific Papers

Summary peer reviews and abstracts represent opinions of reviewers and authors on the same scientific paper. Their focus and statement may be different. We propose primary measurement to compare them from readability and semantic function types. The results show that summary peer reviews highlight some distinct function types, and the terminology in peer reviews is not as dense as in abstracts. That means summary peer reviews can be complement to abstracts in literature searches, and can help readers understanding papers more thoroughly.