Guay Jean-Michel, Wood Timothy J, Touchie Claire, Ta Chi Anh, Halman Samantha
Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Department of Innovation in Medical Education, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Can Med Educ J. 2020 Dec 7;11(6):e46-e53. doi: 10.36834/cmej.69558. eCollection 2020 Dec.
Prior studies have shown that most conference submissions fail to be published. Understanding factors that facilitate publication may be of benefit to authors. Using data from the Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), our goal was to identify characteristics of conference submissions that predict the likelihood of publication with a specific focus on the utility of peer-review ratings.
Study characteristics (scholarship type, methodology, population, sites, institutions) from all oral abstracts from 2011-2015 and peer-review ratings for 2014-2015 were extracted by two raters. Publication data was obtained using online database searches. The impact of variables on publication success was analyzed using logistic regressions.
In total, 953 oral abstracts were reviewed from 2011 to 2015. Overall, the publication rate was 30.5% (291/953). Of 531 abstracts with peer-review ratings, between 2014 and 2015, 162 (31%) were published. Of the nine analyzed variables, those associated with a greater odds of publication were: multiple vs. single institutions (odds ratio (OR) = 1.72), post-graduate research vs. others (OR=1.81) and peer-review ratings (OR=1.60). Factors with decreased odds of publication were curriculum development (OR=0.17) and innovation vs. others (OR=0.22).
Similar to other studies, the publication rate of CCME presentations is low. However, peer ratings were predictive of publication success suggesting that ratings could be a useful form of feedback to authors.
先前的研究表明,大多数会议投稿未能发表。了解有助于发表的因素可能对作者有益。利用加拿大医学教育会议(CCME)的数据,我们的目标是确定会议投稿的特征,这些特征可预测发表的可能性,并特别关注同行评审评分的效用。
两名评分者提取了2011 - 2015年所有口头摘要的研究特征(学术类型、方法、人群、地点、机构)以及2014 - 2015年的同行评审评分。通过在线数据库搜索获得发表数据。使用逻辑回归分析变量对发表成功的影响。
2011年至2015年共评审了953篇口头摘要。总体而言,发表率为30.5%(291/953)。在2014年至2015年有同行评审评分的531篇摘要中,162篇(31%)发表了。在分析的九个变量中,与发表可能性增加相关的变量有:多机构与单机构(优势比(OR)= 1.72)、研究生研究与其他(OR = 1.81)以及同行评审评分(OR = 1.60)。发表可能性降低的因素是课程开发(OR = 0.17)和创新与其他(OR = 0.22)。
与其他研究类似,CCME报告的发表率较低。然而,同行评分可预测发表成功,这表明评分可能是给作者的一种有用反馈形式。