Rate and factors influencing the conversion of abstracts presented at the argentinian congress of hypertension meetings to indexed full peer-reviewed publications

BAROCHINER J; MARTÍNEZ R; CHOI MR; ESPECHE W; MICALI RG; TOMAT A

Hipertensión y Riesgo Vascular

Elsevier

Lugar: Barcelona; Año: 2018

1889-1837

Publicationrates vary significantly among different scientific meetings, with manyabstracts never being published as peer-reviewed articles. This issue has neverbeen investigated in the Hypertension field in Argentina. Our purpose was todetermine the proportion of abstracts presented at the Argentinian Congress ofHypertension meetings that were published as full articles in peer-reviewedindexed journals, the time lag to publication and the factors associated withsuccessful publication. Methods: we conducteda PubMed search to identify peer-reviewed publications of abstracts presentedat the Argentinian Congress of Hypertension meetings between 2006 and 2015,assessing publication rate along with the time lag to publication. We alsoextracted information about several abstract characteristics and, for thosethat got published, we recorded the date of publication and journal name withits impact factor and H index. Predictors of publication were analyzed using amultivariable model. Results: a totalof 619 abstracts were presented between 2006 and 2015. The rate of conversionto full-text peer-reviewed articles by June 2017 was 28.1% (95%CI 24.7-31.8%),with a median time to publication of 15.7 months (IQR 8-30.9). On multivariable analysis, the independentpredictors of publication were basic science category (OR 5 [95%CI 2.3-10.8],p<0.001), oral presentation (OR 2.8 [95%CI 1.6-4.9], p<0.001) and beingan award winner for the presentation (OR 3 [95%CI 1.3-6.8], p=0.01). Conclusion: conversion rate to fullpeer-reviewed articles of abstracts presented at the Argentinian Congress ofHypertension meetings is far from ideal, with potential areas where effortsshould be concentrated to improve dissemination of knowledge.