Subsequent publication of abstracts presented at the International Association of Paediatric Dentistry meetings

Abstract

The results of this study show that 40% of orally presented abstracts at IAPD congresses were followed by a subsequent scientific publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

Full-text publication of abstracts presented at European Orthodontic Society congresses

“…According to our results, the type of abstract presentation was a significant predictor of full publication; this is consistent with some of the previous findings (Scholey and Harrison, 2005;Peng et al, 2006;Dahllöf et al, 2008;Lee et al, 2012;Chung et al, 2012), and may indicate that the congress organizers allocated higher quality and more rigorously conducted studies to oral sessions. However, other authors found no differences in publication percentages between oral and poster forms of presentations (Balasubramanian et al 2006;Rodriguez and Laskin, 2012;Winnik et al, 2012).…”

“…Our findings are higher than the ones reported by other authors in the dental (Bagheri et al, 2005;Scholey and Harrison, 2005;Dahllöf et al, 2008;Collier et al, 2010;Galang et al, 2011;Lee et al, 2012;Rodriguez et al, 2012) and orthodontic literatures (Scholey and Harrison, 2005). The higher percentage of the full-text publication of EOS 2006 and 2007 abstracts compared with previous EOS and other congresses may be associated with better-quality acceptance criteria of the congress committee, the relatively higher general level of research contributed by the participants or other parameters such as authorship, editorial and peer-reviewing processes, and specialty characteristics.…”

“…Additional reasons for not proceeding with full publication may include a larger scale ongoing study that succeeded the initial project, publication of similar findings, lack of novelty in results, flaws in statistical analysis, and low expected interest among readers (Balasubramanian et al, 2006;Peng et al, 2006). In this study, the mean time to full publication was around 16 months, which is comparable to previously published studies (Scholey and Harrison, 2005;Dahllöf et al, 2008;Galang et al, 2011). The peak of full publication occurred within the first 36 months following congress presentation.…”

“…The full publication of dental congress abstracts ranged from 19 to 50 per cent (Bagheri et al 2005;Scholey and Harrison, 2005;Dahllöf et al 2008;Collier et al 2010;Galang et al 2011;Lee et al 2012;Rodriguez et al 2012; Table 1), with a median or mean time of 8-26.4 months to full publication. Specifically on the publication rate of European Orthodontic Society (EOS) abstracts, only one previous study is available focusing on a single-congress, revealing a 44.6 percentage with a median time of 23.5 months until full publication (Scholey and Harrison, 2005).…”

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“…[8,17] Although some studies did not find any significant difference between the publication rates of oral and poster presentations, [17][18][19][20] others showed that the publication rate of oral presentations was higher than poster presentations. [8,21,22] In general, well-designed studies with interesting results which have a higher scientific value are selected as oral presentations by the review committee of the abstracts, and these reports mature further with the feedbacks from the audience. These may be the main reasons why oral presentations had higher publication rates than poster presentations.…”