Abicht Bradley P, Donnenwerth Michael P, Borkosky Sara L, Plovanich Elizabeth J, Roukis Thomas S
Department of Orthopaedics, Podiatry, and Sports Medicine, Gundersen Lutheran Healthcare System, La Crosse, WI 54601, USA.
J Foot Ankle Surg. 2012 Jan-Feb;51(1):45-9. doi: 10.1053/j.jfas.2011.05.009.
Publication is the desired end point of scientific research. Ultimately, it is desired that research presented in poster format at a scientific conference will be developed into a report and become published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Moreover, poster presentations of research studies are often referenced and, as a result, influence treatment care plans. No data exist for the actual publication rate of podiatric foot and ankle surgery poster presentations. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to determine the actual publication rates of poster presentations at the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS) annual scientific conference (ASC) during a 10-year period. Print or electronic media for the ACFAS ASC official program from 1999 to 2008 were obtained. Each year's official program was manually searched for any poster presentation and, when identified, the authors and title were individually searched using Internet-based search engines to determine whether a poster presentation had been followed by publication. Of the 825 posters, 198 (24%) poster presentations were ultimately published in 1 of 32 medical journals within a weighted mean of 17.6 months. Of the 32 journals, 25 (78.1%) represented peer-reviewed journals. The publication rate of poster presentations at the ACFAS ASC was less than that of oral manuscripts presented at the same meeting during the same period and was also less than the orthopedic subspecialty poster presentation publication rates. Therefore, attendees of the ACFAS ASC should be aware that only a few of the posters presented at the ACFAS ASC will be valid because they will not survive the rigors of publication 76% of the time. Additionally, more stringent selection criteria should be used so that the selected poster presentations can ultimately withstand the publication process.
发表是科学研究期望达成的终点。最终，人们希望在科学会议上以海报形式展示的研究能够发展成一份报告，并在同行评审的科学期刊上发表。此外，研究报告的海报展示经常被引用，从而影响治疗护理计划。目前尚无关于足踝外科手术海报展示实际发表率的数据。因此，本研究的目的是确定在10年期间美国足踝外科医师学会（ACFAS）年度科学会议（ASC）上海报展示的实际发表率。获取了1999年至2008年ACFAS ASC官方项目的印刷版或电子版。每年的官方项目都人工搜索是否有海报展示，一旦找到，便使用基于互联网的搜索引擎分别搜索作者和标题，以确定海报展示之后是否有发表情况。在825份海报中，198份（24%）海报展示最终在32种医学期刊中的1种上发表，加权平均时间为17.6个月。在这32种期刊中，25种（78.1%）是同行评审期刊。ACFAS ASC上海报展示的发表率低于同期在同一次会议上发表的口头报告，也低于骨科亚专业海报展示的发表率。因此，ACFAS ASC的参会者应该意识到，在ACFAS ASC上展示的海报中只有少数会被发表，因为76%的情况下它们无法经受住发表的严格筛选。此外，应该采用更严格的筛选标准，以便所选的海报展示最终能够经受住发表过程的考验。
