“…Only one previous paper reported subspecialty publication rates for the 2001 American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons Meeting, with a podium and poster publication rate of 53% [23]. The SECEC publication rate is comparable to other international congresses and even to general congresses for trauma and orthopedics [1–3, 6, 7, 13, 15, 18, 23] or specialty meetings [4, 5, 8–12, 14, 16, 17, 19–22] (Table 2). …”