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. 2014 Apr;21(2):e250-4.
doi: 10.3747/co.21.1764.

Publication rates of abstracts presented at the 2007 and 2010 Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology meetings

A Meissner  1 , G Delouya  1 , D Marcovitch  1 , D Donath  1 , D Taussky  1
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Publication rates of abstracts presented at the 2007 and 2010 Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology meetings

A Meissner et al. Curr Oncol. 2014 Apr.

Abstract

Background: We set out to determine the rate, time-trend, and defining factors associated with publication of abstracts presented at two annual scientific meetings of the Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology (caro).

Methods: All abstracts accepted for oral presentation in 2007 and 2010 were obtained from the caro program archives and searched using the PubMed database. Variables in the dataset included the year of presentation at caro and of publication in a scientific journal, time to publication (in months), publishing journal, impact factor of publishing journal, abstract research type (clinical, technical, or basic science) and disease site, country of origin, and university of the first author.

Results: Overall, 88 of 172 abstracts from the 2007 (n = 102) and 2010 (n = 70) caro meetings were published in peer-reviewed journals (publication rate: 51.2%). Mean time to publication was 18.5 months. Among research types, clinical research (62.5%) and, among disease sites, prostate cancer (40.4%) were most likely to be published. Of all the abstracts, 50.1% were contributed by only 2 universities, a proportion that resembles the overall abstract publication rate of 51.2%. The conversion rate for those 2 universities (51.1%) is very similar to that for all abstracts presented at the two meetings.

Conclusions: Half the abstracts presented at the 2007 and 2010 caro meetings were ultimately published in journals indexed in PubMed by about 1.5 years after presentation. Half the abstracts and publications came from just 2 universities; more must to be done to close the gap.

Keywords: Abstracts; Canada; annual meetings; conversion rate; radiation oncology.

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Journals in which abstracts presented at the Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology (caro) 2007 and 2010 meetings were fully published, and percentage of those abstracts published in each journal. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys = International Journal of Radiation Oncology·Biology·Physics; Med Phys = Journal of Medical Physics; Radiother Oncol = Radiotherapy and Oncology; J Clin Oncol = Journal of Clinical Oncology; Curr Oncol = Current Oncology; Clin Oncol = Clinical Oncology; Phys Med Biol = Physics in Medicine and Biology.
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