Subsequent Full Publication of Abstracts Presented in the Annual Meetings of the Spanish Society of Cardiology

作者：Alonso Arroyo Adolfo^*; Aleixandre Benavent Rafael; Vidal Infer Antonio; Anguita Sanchez Manuel; Chorro Gasco Francisco J; Bolanos Pizarro Maxima; Castello Cogollos Lourdes; Navarro Molina Carolina; Valderrama Zurian Juan C

来源：Revista Espanola de Cardiologia, 2014, 67(1): 15-21.

DOI：10.1016/j.rec.2013.05.009

• Spanish Society of Cardiology
• Meetings
• Subsequent publications

Introduction and objectives: The Spanish Society of Cardiology holds an annual national meeting with a large number of presentations but the number of full-text publications resulting from these presentations and the journals accepting these manuscripts is unknown. This study aimed to identify the full-text publication rate of accepted abstracts and to analyze the bibliometric features of subsequent publications.
Methods: We randomly selected a sample of 300 oral presentations at the meetings of the Spanish Society of Cardiology in 2002, 2005 and 2008. Subsequent publications were identified through the Science Citation Index-Expanded, Scopus, Indice Medico Espanol, and Indice Bibliografico Espanol en Ciencias de la Salud.
Results: Of 300 abstracts, 115 resulted in 147 full publications, representing a publication rate of 38.33%. The meeting with the highest publication rate (43%) was held in 2005. The subject category with the highest number of publications was Pediatric Cardiology/Congenital Heart Disease (58.8%). Time to full publication was usually 2 years (30.61%). Articles were published in 57 journals. The journals publishing the highest number of articles were Revista Espanola de Cardiologia (n=55; 37.41%) and the European Heart Journal (n=8; 5.44%).
Conclusions: The high percentage of articles published in the upper half of journals listed in Journal Citation Reports under the category of cardiac and cardiovascular system (83%) can be taken as an objective quality indicator of the results presented at these meetings. However, more than 60% of the abstracts did not result in full publications, thus depriving the scientific community of potentially interesting results.

• 出版日期2014-1