Rushing Calvin J, Galan Gabriel P, Ivankiv Roman, Oxios Adam J, Rathnayake Viraj R, Ramil Madelin C, Chussid Fredric, Spinner Steven M
Resident, Graduate Medical Education, Westside Regional Medical Center, Plantation, FL.
Resident, Graduate Medical Education, Westside Regional Medical Center, Plantation, FL.
J Foot Ankle Surg. 2018 Apr 26:716-720. doi: 10.1053/j.jfas.2017.12.013.
The American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS) annual conference has served as a premiere platform to disseminate the latest innovations and research in the field of foot and ankle surgery. The quality of national society conferences is often assessed indirectly by analyzing the the journal publication rate of the abstracts presented. The purpose of this retrospective study was to assess the journal publication rate for abstracts (oral manuscripts and posters) accepted for presentation at the ACFAS conference from 2010 to 2014. All accepted abstracts from this period were compiled by the ACFAS office. PubMed, Google Scholar, and Scopus searches were performed using abstract titles and author names. Overall, the journal publication rate was 76.9% (83 of 108) for oral manuscripts and 23.2% (258 of 1113) for poster abstracts. The mean time to publication was 9.6 (range 0 to 44) months and 19.8 (range 0 to 66) months for oral and poster abstracts, respectively. The most common journal for abstract publication was The Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery. Notably, the ACFAS oral manuscript publication rate from 2010 to 2014 (76.9%) exceeded its previously reported rate from 1999 to 2008 (67.5%) and the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society podium publication rate from 2008 to 2012 (73.7%). To the best of our knowledge, the publication incidence for oral abstracts presented at the ACFAS conference is now the highest reported of any national foot and ankle society conference to date.
美国足踝外科医师学会（ACFAS）年度会议一直是传播足踝外科领域最新创新成果和研究的首要平台。全国性学会会议的质量通常通过分析所展示摘要的期刊发表率来间接评估。这项回顾性研究的目的是评估2010年至2014年在ACFAS会议上被接受展示的摘要（口头报告文稿和海报）的期刊发表率。ACFAS办公室汇编了这一时期所有被接受的摘要。使用摘要标题和作者姓名在PubMed、谷歌学术和Scopus上进行了检索。总体而言，口头报告文稿的期刊发表率为76.9%（108篇中的83篇），海报摘要的发表率为23.2%（1113篇中的258篇）。口头和海报摘要的平均发表时间分别为9.6个月（范围0至44个月）和19.8个月（范围0至66个月）。摘要发表最常见的期刊是《足踝外科杂志》。值得注意的是，ACFAS 2010年至2014年的口头报告文稿发表率（76.9%）超过了其先前报告的1999年至2008年的发表率（67.5%）以及美国矫形足踝协会2008年至2012年的讲台报告发表率（73.7%）。据我们所知，ACFAS会议上展示的口头摘要的发表发生率是迄今为止任何全国性足踝学会会议中报道的最高值。
