Factors Influencing Publication Rates of Abstracts Presented at the ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition

Abstract

Factors related to the path of abstracts from presentation at a conference to publication as a full article have been analyzed in the medical ield, but only a few studies have been performed in dentistry. This study investigated the rate of publication of articles based on abstracts presented at the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Annual Session & Exhibition in 2002 and 2003 and the time lag to publication. This study also aimed to characterize the abstracts and subsequent articles and determine if there were any signiicant factors related to expansion of an abstract into a full manuscript. A total of 370 abstracts met the inclusion criteria and were examined for this study. Subsequent published articles were located using a standard PubMed search. Descriptive statistics and bivariate analyses were used to analyze the data collected (α=0.05). Results suggest that there was a low (19 percent) publication rate for articles based on abstracts presented at the meetings studied. The median time between abstract presentation and article publication was ten months. Factors that showed signiicant correlation to likelihood of article publication were multiple afiliations, presence of analytical statistics, and, to a lesser extent, funding. We suggest that presenters at these meetings should expand their abstracts into full manuscripts and seek to publish them in peer-reviewed journals for the beneit of the profession.

Publication rates of presentations given at annual conferences of The Wildlife Society, 1994–2006

“…Our average time‐to‐publication of 30.1 ± 0.6 months is greater than those reported in other studies, primarily from various biomedical disciplines (e.g., 15.0 months in Marx et al [], 15.8 months in Ciesla and Wojcik [], 16.5 months in Bydder et al [], 20.5 months in Greenberg et al [], and 10.0 months in Galang et al []). Fennewald () reported a more comparable average publication time of 26 months from presented papers at the Association of College and Research Libraries National Conference.…”

“…Past studies have identified several additional reasons for presenters not publishing abstracts from biomedical conferences, including a lack of time or funding, lack of cooperation among co‐authors, publishing the research was not a priority to the author(s), the study was still in progress, or the abstract was initially submitted and rejected by a journal and not re‐submitted (Scherer et al , Sprague et al , Petticrew et al , Timmer et al , Sanossian et al ). Similar studies also identified important determinants of successful publication of conference presentations such as presence of analytical statistics, statistically significant results, larger sample size, university affiliation, international collaboration, a greater number of authors, and abstract acceptance (DeBellefeuille et al , Weber et al , Peng et al , Tambuscio et al , Galang et al ). We propose similar analyses in the wildlife management field if increasing publication rates of TWS conference presentations is identified as a goal by stakeholders.…”

“…Differences in publication rates observed among professional affiliations may be a product of differing job requirements among affiliation sectors (Tambuscio et al ) or may simply be representative of affiliation proportions across our 13‐year study period. Most members of the academic affiliation are expected to publish findings in peer‐reviewed literature (Drott , Galang et al ), while federal and state natural resource agencies often write internal reports, which can be presented at conferences. Collaborations between academics and state or federal entities are common in the wildlife field (Powell et al ), with academics often responsible for publishing project results, and state or federal entities listed as secondary authors.…”

What is the Ultimate Fate of Presented Abstracts? Conversion Rates of Presentations to International Publications from the 31st National Congress of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery

“…The average time for which the presentations delivered at the 31 st National Congress of the TSPRAS were converted into publications was found to be approximately 2 years, which is consistent with the results shown in similar previous studies. 50,51,55 Our study found that 64% of the studies were turned into publications within the first 2 years and 93.3% within the first 4 years. This result supports the other studies that have reported that more than 90% of the presentations that were converted into publications were published within the 4 years following the congress.…”

Differences Between ADEA Annual Session Poster Abstracts and Their Corresponding Full Published Articles

“…Not all poster abstracts are published as full‐length articles after scientific or educational meetings. Some groups that have investigated the publication rate of articles based on abstracts presented at health professions meetings found it ranged from 10 percent to 78 percent 3 ,6– 15 . Others have examined the barriers to developing abstracts into full‐length articles, 4 ,14,16, 17 identifying such reasons as lack of preparation time, ongoing study, and challenging relationships between coauthors.…”