The phrase "a mere summary" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is a simple or basic overview of a more complex topic.
Example: "The report provided a mere summary of the findings, lacking the detailed analysis that was expected."
Alternatives: "just a brief overview" or "only a simple outline."
This is a statistically rigorous study of studies, rather than a mere summary of the literature.
But then TechCrunch would never agree to an interview where the questions were pre-agreed and the interview was so managed, and intended to be a mere "summary".
(I encourage everyone reading this blog to follow up. This is a mere summary).
A mere summary of results will improve performance as surgeons and institutions will attempt to do their best.
She went beyond mere summary of the article to explore the underlying issues and concretely illustrated how they effect her own education.
Users can opt to receive certain emails in their inbox, others as mere summary digests, and others simply as messages that can be searched for whenever certain information is needed.
Full mtDNA sequence results should be presented in the text [16] for the whole set of individuals analyzed rather than mere summary statistics that would only report the number of instabilities observed at individual positions [19].
Le Roy was a disciple of Henri Poincaré, who had argued that scientific theories are neither mere summaries of data nor deduced from axioms but are creative constructions, products of human thought and ingenuity.
Qualitative reviews are assessments and not mere summaries; hence reviewers do not always agree with primary authors' interpretation or statement of results; see [7] for extended examples.
Some particularists are prepared to bite this bullet, steadfastly maintaining that such "default valences" are mere summaries of moral knowledge restricted to specific past acts of moral decision making, wherein all the factors "added up" in a certain way; but others lament the loss of explanatory power resulting from such a dismissal of generalizations.
Although the Arab World, with its wealth of magazines, is part of a mere three-page regional summary and only the United Arab Emirates merits a country report, WMT 11-12 remains a useful guide to how periodicals are faring globally.
