This study aims to identify the characteristics of abstracts by analyzing the status of abstracts published in ‘Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management.’ To this end, the study analyzed the components of and the types of abstracts. Target abstracts were those published in the journal from 1984 to 2015. The journal published 1,168 articles with indicative abstracts accounting for 96.6%, informative abstracts 3.4%, and abstracts written in both English and Korean 99.5%. As for research methods, case study through literature review was 52.8%, surveys 21.1%, and experimentation 26.1%. The percentage of abstracts consisting of one paragraph was 92.1%, more than two paragraphs were 7.9%, fewer than 5 sentences were 79%, and 6 sentences or more were 21%. The use of the first person was 90.5%. In terms of topic areas, library and information center management was 19.4%, information services 17.3%, information technology 16.2%, information retrieval 15.1%, and informetrics 9.6%, etc.