Full-text publication of abstract-presented work in sport and exercise psychology

Abstract

ObjectivesMeetings promote information sharing, but do not enable full dissemination of details. A systematic search was conducted for abstracts presented at the 2010 and 2011 Association of Applied Sport Psychology Annual Conferences to determine the full-text dissemination rate of work presented in abstract form and investigate factors influencing this rate.MethodsSystematic searches were sequentially conducted to determine whether the abstract-presented work had been published in full-text format in the 5 years following presentation. If a potential full-text publication was identified, information from the conference abstract (eg, results, number of participants in the sample(s), measurement tools used and so on) was compared with the full text to ensure the two entities represented the same body of work. Abstract factors of interest were assessed using logistic regression.ResultsNinety-four out of 423 presented abstracts (22.2%) were published in full text. Odds of full-text publication increased if the abstract was from an international institution, presented in certain conference sections or presented as a lecture.ConclusionThose attending professional conferences should be cautious when translating data presented at conferences into their applied work because of the low rate of peer-reviewed and full-text publication of the information.

What happens to global health research: analysis of the full‐length publication rates of research abstracts presented at two major global health conferences

“…While there has been an increase in formalisation of global health interest, participation and funding, there has been a relative lag in the consolidation of research outlets through which to disseminate global health research. In other fields such as sports psychology, plastic surgery and orthopaedic surgery, it was common to see two or fewer journals accounting for at least 20% of all publications from the conferences, with in several cases one or two journals accounting for 40% or more of publications (Gregory & Liu, 2012; Lehman et al, 2017; Shue & Warden, 2018). This level of consolidation is noticeably higher than that observed in this study of global health research.…”

“…Cut‐off dates were delineated to ensure consistency of findings across ranges of searches. Searches were conducted by titles, authors and key words, with confirmation and matching occurring after suspected papers were found (Shue & Warden, 2018; see also Rushing et al, 2018; see also Marsland, Mumith, & Taylor, 2018; Villani et al, 2019; Ohtori et al, 2018; Lehman et al, 2017; Miguel‐Dasit et al, 2005; Narain et al, 2017; Lloyd et al, 2006; Chan & Graham, 2010; Amirhamzeh et al, 2012; Gregory & Liu, 2012; Tyagi et al, 2013).…”