Abstract:

Objective: Publication rates of the abstracts presented in the congress demonstrate the scientific quality of the meeting. This study aims to evaluate the fate of the abstracts presented at the Turkish Spine Congress in 2015 and 2017. Materials and Methods: Abstracts of the meeting were searched using Pubmed and Google Scholar databases. The title of the abstract and corresponding author’s names were searched in these databases. If the title of the abstract was in Turkish, only the author’s names were used. The presentations were classified according to presentation type, publication date, indexing information of the journals, the main subject of the study, and consistency of the publication and the abstract. Results: Thirty-seven of 78 oral papers and 24 of the 73 poster presentations in the 2015 congress were published. The average time to publication was 31.2 months. The main topic of the publications was deformity. The study title change ratio was 43%, the author name change ratio was 57%, and the sample size change ratio was 32% in 2015. The journal indexes were Science Citation Index/Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI/SCIE) in 48 studies, other international indexes in 10 studies, and ULAKBIM in 4 studies. Forty-four of 136 oral presentations and 10 of 72 poster presentations in the 2017 congress were published. The average time to publication was 15.5 months. The main topic of these publications was general spine knowledge/basic module. The study title change ratio was 13%, the author name change ratio was 35%, and the sample size change ratio was 22% in 2017. The journal indexes were SCI/SCIE in 33 studies, other international indexes in 9 studies, and ULAKBIM in 12 studies. Conclusion: Although there were inconsistencies between the presentations and full-text articles, a respectable number of presentations of Turkish Spine Congresses were published.

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