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Increase in Publication Rates and Publication Bias Following Presentation at ISAKOS Biennial Congress
Brandon Alec Pagni, Jackson A. Middleton, Jeffrey S. Larson, Vehniah K. Tjong, Michael A. Terry, Ujash Sheth
The number of abstracts presented at the ISAKOS Biennial Congress has grown exponentially since the inaugural meeting in 1997. However, the rate of publication of abstracts presented at the Congress has not been studied since 1999, at which time the rate was found to be 39%. The primary objective of the current study was to provide an update on the rate of publication and to examine factors associated with publication. All abstracts presented at the 2013 ISAKOS Congress were obtained from the official meeting website. Searches for subsequent publications were conducted using the MEDLINE, EMBASE and Google Scholar by two independent reviewers. Data collected included presentation type (podium or poster), publication status (yes or no), study results (positive or negative), date
of publication, journal name, and whether there were discrepancies between abstract and publication. Of the 746 abstracts presented at the 2013 ISAKOS Congress, 413 (55.4%) were published in peer-reviewed journals by the end of 2018, with a mean time to publication of 593 days. Podium presentations were significantly more likely to be published than poster presentations, with publication rates of 61.0% and 52.5%, respectively (p < 0.03). Abstracts with positive results were significantly more likely to be published than those with negative results with publication rates of 60.8% and 48.5%, respectively (p < 0.001). Discrepancies between the congress abstract and eventual publication were noted in 17% of studies. The authors concluded that the rate of publication of abstracts presented at the ISAKOS Congress has improved dramatically since this topic was last studied in 1999 and are comparable with those of abstracts presented other prominent orthopaedic and sport medicine conferences.
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