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The assessment of abstracts presented in National Rheumatology Congresses: where do we stand?
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Research Article
VOLUME: 3 ISSUE: 2
P: 6-10
June 2011

The assessment of abstracts presented in National Rheumatology Congresses: where do we stand?

J Turk Soc Rheumatol 2011;3(2):6-10
DOI: 10.2399/raed.11.002
Umut Kalyoncu 1,2
Muhammet Çınar 1
Mehmet Derya Demirağ 1
Sedat Yılmaz 1
Hakan Erdem 1
Sedat Kiraz 2
Salih Pay 1
İhsan Ertenli 2
Ayhan Dinç 1
1. GATA İç Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, Romatoloji Bilim Dalı, Ankara
2. Hacettepe Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, İç Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, Romatoloji Bilim Dalı, Ankara
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Received Date: 09.12.2010
Accepted Date: 31.01.2011
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ABSTRACT

Objective:

Objective of this study was to assess publication and citation rate of posters and oral abstracts that were presented during the annual national rheumatology congresses.

Methods:

Seven hundred ninety-nine abstracts that were presented at national rheumatology congresses between 2005 and 2009 were evaluated in this study. Publication status was assessed from PubMed using the link http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/. Journal name, publication months and years, impact factors, degree of journals (A, B and C class), inclusion in Index Medicus and number of citations (from ISI Web of Knowledge) were determined. Annual citation counts of manuscripts were calculated between the month of publication and July 2010. Mean duration between date of presentation at the congress and date of publication was also calculated. Abstracts were assessed according to their being presented as posters, oral presentations and receiving an award.

Results:

A total of 507 poster presentations, 205 case reports, 87 oral presentations, and 36 abstracts with rheumatology award were assessed. Thirty (14.6%) of case reports and 143 (24.1%) of other abstracts were published in a journal. Mean duration between date of presentation and date of publication was 15.9±9.9 months and mean duration between publication date and July 2010 was 25.0±13.4 months. Rheumatoid arthritis (32%), Behcet's disease (BD) (23%) and familial Mediterranean fever (10%) were more frequently presented as oral presentations. Patients with BD were more frequently presented as oral presentation than other diseases [20/82 (24.4%) versus 67/512 (13.1%), p=0.007]. Publication rates of posters, oral presentations and abstracts which received an award were 115/507 (22.7%), 28/87 (32.2%) and 13/37 (35.1%) respectively. Thirty one manuscripts were published in a category A journal. The median number of patients included and the impact factors of journals were higher for abstracts which had received an award than those which had not, however the number of citations were similar. Abstracts which had received an award were more frequently published in a category A journal than those which had not [6/13 (46%) versus 15/124 (12%), p=0.001].

Conclusions:

Although the publication rate of abstracts of annual national rheumatology congresses were higher than that reported for national congresses of other specialties in Turkey, still only one fourth of abstracts were published. Further studies are needed to determine the reason for this situation. Finally these results also indicate the need for Turkish rheumatology journals.