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More insight into the fate of biomedical meeting abstracts: a systematic review

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology, July 2003
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More insight into the fate of biomedical meeting abstracts: a systematic review
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BMC Medical Research Methodology, July 2003
DOI 10.1186/1471-2288-3-12
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Erik von Elm, Michael C Costanza, Bernhard Walder, Martin R Tramèr

Abstract

It has been estimated that about 45% of abstracts that are accepted for presentation at biomedical meetings will subsequently be published in full. The acceptance of abstracts at meetings and their fate after initial rejection are less well understood. We set out to estimate the proportion of abstracts submitted to meetings that are eventually published as full reports, and to explore factors that are associated with meeting acceptance and successful publication. Studies analysing acceptance of abstracts at biomedical meetings or their subsequent full publication were searched in MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, BIOSIS, Science Citation Index Expanded, and by hand searching of bibliographies and proceedings. We estimated rates of abstract acceptance and of subsequent full publication, and identified abstract and meeting characteristics associated with acceptance and publication, using logistic regression analysis, survival-type analysis, and meta-analysis. Analysed meetings were held between 1957 and 1999. Of 14945 abstracts that were submitted to 43 meetings, 46% were accepted. The rate of full publication was studied with 19123 abstracts that were presented at 234 meetings. Using survival-type analysis, we estimated that 27% were published after two, 41% after four, and 44% after six years. Of 2412 abstracts that were rejected at 24 meetings, 27% were published despite rejection. Factors associated with both abstract acceptance and subsequent publication were basic science and positive study outcome. Large meetings and those held outside the US were more likely to accept abstracts. Abstracts were more likely to be published subsequently if presented either orally, at small meetings, or at a US meeting. Abstract acceptance itself was strongly associated with full publication. About one third of abstracts submitted to biomedical meetings were published as full reports. Acceptance at meetings and publication were associated with specific characteristics of abstracts and meetings.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 49 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 22%
Student > Master 6 12%
Professor 4 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 6%
Other 14 27%
Unknown 10 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 21 41%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 8%
Social Sciences 2 4%
Environmental Science 1 2%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Other 6 12%
Unknown 16 31%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 November 2012.
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