diff --git a/src/bluesearch/entrypoint/database/add_es.py b/src/bluesearch/entrypoint/database/add_es.py
index 2841d6cdb..ace942f68 100644
--- a/src/bluesearch/entrypoint/database/add_es.py
+++ b/src/bluesearch/entrypoint/database/add_es.py
@@ -115,12 +115,25 @@ def bulk_paragraphs(
     for inp in inputs:
         serialized = inp.read_text("utf-8")
         article = Article.from_json(serialized)
+        # add abstract to paragraphs in order to be able to search for abstracts
+        for i, abstract in enumerate(article.abstract):
+            doc = {
+                "_index": "paragraphs",
+                "_source": {
+                    "article_id": article.uid,
+                    "section": "abstract",
+                    "text": abstract,
+                    "paragraph_id": i,
+                },
+            }
+            yield doc
+        # add body paragraphs
         for ppos, (section, text) in enumerate(article.section_paragraphs):
             doc = {
                 "_index": "paragraphs",
                 "_source": {
                     "article_id": article.uid,
-                    "section_name": section,
+                    "section": section,
                     "text": text,
                     "paragraph_id": ppos,
                 },
@@ -160,7 +173,7 @@ def run(
     if resp[0] == 0:
         raise RuntimeWarning(f"No articles were loaded to ES from '{parsed_path}'!")
 
-    logger.info("Uploading articles to the database...")
+    logger.info("Uploading paragraphs to the database...")
     progress = tqdm.tqdm(
         desc="Uploading paragraphs", total=len(inputs), unit="articles"
     )
diff --git a/src/bluesearch/k8s/create_indices.py b/src/bluesearch/k8s/create_indices.py
index 00db98efe..3b195f04a 100644
--- a/src/bluesearch/k8s/create_indices.py
+++ b/src/bluesearch/k8s/create_indices.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
     "dynamic": "strict",
     "properties": {
         "article_id": {"type": "keyword"},
-        "section_name": {"type": "keyword"},
+        "section": {"type": "keyword"},
         "paragraph_id": {"type": "short"},
         "text": {"type": "text"},
         "is_bad": {"type": "boolean"},
diff --git a/tests/unit/entrypoint/database/test_add_es.py b/tests/unit/entrypoint/database/test_add_es.py
index cb44b4adb..84e249757 100644
--- a/tests/unit/entrypoint/database/test_add_es.py
+++ b/tests/unit/entrypoint/database/test_add_es.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ def test(get_es_client: Elasticsearch, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
 
     # verify paragraphs
     resp = client.search(index="paragraphs", query={"match_all": {}})
-    assert resp["hits"]["total"]["value"] == 4
+    assert resp["hits"]["total"]["value"] == 8
 
     all_docs = set()
     for doc in resp["hits"]["hits"]:
@@ -80,14 +80,18 @@ def test(get_es_client: Elasticsearch, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
             (
                 doc["_source"]["article_id"],
                 doc["_source"]["paragraph_id"],
-                doc["_source"]["section_name"],
+                doc["_source"]["section"],
                 doc["_source"]["text"],
             )
         )
 
     all_docs_expected = {
+        ("1", 0, "abstract", "some test abstract"),
+        ("1", 1, "abstract", "abcd"),
         ("1", 0, "intro", "some test section_paragraphs 1client"),
         ("1", 1, "summary", "some test section_paragraphs 2"),
+        ("2", 0, "abstract", "dsaklf"),
+        ("2", 1, "abstract", "abcd"),
         ("2", 0, "intro", "some TESTTT section_paragraphs 1client"),
         ("2", 1, "summary", "some other test section_paragraphs 2"),
     }