This paper presents an overview of the CLEF 2022 SimpleText track's Task 1, asking systems to retrieve scientific abstracts in response to a query prompted by a popular science article. We discuss the details of the task setup: First, the SimpleText Corpus with over 4 million academic papers and abstracts. Second, the Topics based on 40 popular science articles in the news and the 114 Queries prompted by them. Third, the Formats of requests and results, the Evaluation labels and Evaluation measures used. Fourth, the Results of the runs submitted by our participants.