Frequency of Abstracts Presented at Eye and Vision Conferences Being Developed Into Full-Length Publications

Publication of results of abstracts presented at medical education conferences.

Publication of Results of Abstracts Presented atMedical Education Conferences Conferences represent an important forum for presentation of scholarly activity; however, dissemination beyond meeting registrants is limited. Peer-reviewed publication facilitates knowledge translation,1 and failure to publish may lead to unnecessary duplication and publication bias that can compromise future scholar...

Publication rates of abstracts presented at major interventional radiology conferences.

PURPOSE We aimed to determine the publication rate and factors predictive of publication of oral presentations at the annual meetings of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE) and the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR). METHODS Keywords and authors from oral presentation abstracts at the 2012 CIRSE and SIR annual meetings were used to search PubMed an...

Distribution of information in biomedical abstracts and full-text publications

MOTIVATION Full-text documents potentially hold more information than their abstracts, but require more resources for processing. We investigated the added value of full text over abstracts in terms of information content and occurrences of gene symbol--gene name combinations that can resolve gene-symbol ambiguity. RESULTS We analyzed a set of 3902 biomedical full-text articles. Different key...

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Full publication of results initially presented in abstracts.

BACKGROUND Abstracts of presentations at scientific meetings are usually available only in conference proceedings. If subsequent full publication of abstract results is based on the magnitude or direction of study results, publication bias may result. Publication bias, in turn, creates problems for those conducting systematic reviews or relying on the published literature for evidence. OBJECT...