TY  - JOUR
TI  - Publication rates of abstracts presented at the 23rd (2013) and 24th (2014) National Turkish Orthopedics and Traumatology Congresses: We are not improving
AB  - Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine 1) the publication rates of podium and poster presentations from the 23rd (2013) and the 24th (2014) National Turkish Orthopedics and Traumatology Congresses in peer-reviewed journals and (2) compare these rates with publication rates from the 20th congress (2007) published previously. The secondary objective was to determine the time lag to publication and compare this data with the data from the 20th congress. Methods: All abstracts from the scientific programs of the 23rd (2013) and the 24th (2014) National Turkish Orthopedics and Traumatology Congresses were identified and computerized PubMed searches were conducted to determine whether an abstract had been followed by publication of a full-text article in peer-reviewed journals. The time lag to publication was also noted. Results: Of the 993 presentation abstracts (302 podium and 691 poster presentations) from the 23rd congress and of the 940 presentation abstracts (310 podium and 630 poster presentations) from the 24th congress, 278 (28%) and 234 (24.9%) were followed by a full-text article in peer-reviewed journals indexed by PubMed, respectively. The rates of publication of the podium and poster presentations were 39.4% (119/302) and 23% (159/691), respectively from the 23rd and 37.7% (117/310) and 18.6% (117/630), respectively from the 24th congresses. The mean time to publication of the abstracts from the 23rd congress was 12.8 ± 18.8 (median: 13, range: 140 to 47) months and the mean time to publication of the abstracts from the 24th congress was 11.1 ± 14.42 (median: 11, range: 73 to 39) months. Fifty (50/ 278, 18%) abstracts from the 23rd congress (mean 11, range: [32][1], median 5 months) and 37 (37/234, 15.8%) abstracts from the 24th congress (mean 10.4, range: [73][1], median 4 months) were published as full-text articles prior to the presentation at the congress. Conclusion: The vast majority of abstracts presented at 23rd (2013) and the 24th (2014) National Turkish Orthopedics and Traumatology Congresses were not followed by publication of a full-text article in peerreviewed journals. The publication rates of the abstracts presented at these congresses did not improve when compared with the 20th (2007) congress.
AU  - bagatur, ali erdem
AU  - Yalcinkaya, Merter
DO  - 10.1016/j.aott.2019.05.006
PY  - 2019
JO  - Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Turcica
VL  - 53
IS  - 4
SN  - 1017-995X
SP  - 248
EP  - 254
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/311427
ER  -