Reyes B Humberto, Andresen H Max, Palma H Joaquín
Rev Med Chil. 2011 Jan;139(1):7-10. Epub 2011 Apr 11.
Abstracts presented in scientific meetings are indispensable tools to diffuse the latest research in the field. They provide the authors with an opportunity to receive feedback from a critical audience so they can prepare a final manuscript to be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. However, several studies in a wide range of medical specialties and other related sciences showed that no more than 50% of abstracts presented in annual meetings of learned societies are published in a 5-year follow up after the meeting. Therefore, abstracts are considered "preliminary publications" and it is recommended not to include them as bibliographic references unless they have been published recently (less than 3 years) in peer-reviewed journals (regular issues or supplements) or in their official websites. Databases dependent on the National Library of Medicine (USA) or SciELO do not index individual abstracts from a meeting. Authors and reviewers should be reminded that manuscripts that have shaped current knowledge probably had also been presented as abstracts in scientific meetings, sometime before their final publication.
在科学会议上发表的摘要，是传播该领域最新研究成果不可或缺的工具。它们为作者提供了一个机会，使其能够从挑剔的受众那里获得反馈，以便他们准备最终稿件，提交给同行评审期刊。然而，众多医学专业和其他相关科学领域的多项研究表明，在学术团体年会中发表的摘要，在会议后的5年随访期内，发表率不超过50%。因此，摘要被视为“初步出版物”，除非它们最近（不到3年）已在同行评审期刊（常规期刊或增刊）或其官方网站上发表，否则建议不要将其作为参考文献列入。依赖美国国立医学图书馆或SciELO的数据库不会收录会议上的单篇摘要。应提醒作者和审稿人，那些塑造了当前知识的稿件，在最终发表之前，可能也曾作为摘要在科学会议上展示过。
