Publication rates of abstracts presented at major interventional radiology conferences

Abstract

P resentation at research conferences serves as a valuable channel for individuals to share new knowledge and advances in a given clinical field. The ultimate goal of a conference presentation is usually subsequent manuscript publication. The process of submitting a manuscript for publication typically requires extensive peer review and revisions (1). Research quality plays a major role in whether a study is accepted by a journal. Therefore, assessing the rate at which presentations at major conferences are published can serve as a surrogate marker of the quality of conference presentations.Insight into publication rate raises the question of which factors, if any, increase the likelihood of a conference abstract ultimately being published in a peer-reviewed journal. For example, past studies have demonstrated publication bias, in which studies with positive or statistically significant results are more likely to be accepted by a journal compared with those with nonsignificant results (2).The publication rate of presentations at major conferences varies depending on the specialty and conference. Publication rates for various national surgical conferences have been shown to range from 36% to 65% (3-6). Other example publication rates include 32% for emergency medicine, 35%-50% for pediatrics, and 50% for cardiology (3, 7). A previous meta-analysis reviewed the number of abstracts that went on to publication for several specialty conferences and reported publication rates that varied from 32%-67% (3). I N T E R V E N T I O N A L R A D I O LO G Y O R I G I N A L A R T I C L E PURPOSEWe aimed to determine the publication rate and factors predictive of publication of oral presentations at the annual meetings of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE) and the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR). METHODSKeywords and authors from oral presentation abstracts at the 2012 CIRSE and SIR annual meetings were used to search PubMed and GoogleScholar for subsequent publication. Logistic regression was performed to identify whether number of authors, country of origin, subject category, methodology, study type, and/or study results were predictive of publication. RESULTSA total of 421 abstracts (CIRSE-126, SIR-295) met the inclusion criteria. The overall publication rate across both conferences was 44.9%. Time from conference presentation to publication was 15±8.9 months for CIRSE and 16.3±8.8 months for SIR (P > 0.05), with a combined time interval of 15.9±8.8 months for both. The median impact factor of published abstracts was 2.075 (interquartile range, 2.075-2.775) for CIRSE and 2.093 (2.075-2.856) for SIR (P > 0.05). The most common country of origin for published abstracts was Germany (27.1%) at CIRSE and the United States (69%) at SIR. Logistic regression did not identify factors that were predictive of future publication. CONCLUSIONPublication rates were similar for CIRSE and SIR. Factors such as country of origin, topic of study and study results were not predictive of future pub...

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