Pantel T, On Jihoon, Hackel S, Hubertus V, Ille S, Kalbitz M, Keller J, Klingler J H, Onken J, Schmidt H, Younsi A, Zwingenberger S, Czabanka M, Vajkoczy P, Mohme M
Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Department of Orthopaedic, Inselspital Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Brain Spine. 2025 Apr 25;5:104242. doi: 10.1016/j.bas.2025.104242. eCollection 2025.
The annual meeting of the German Spine Society (DWG) serves as a platform for discussing the latest academic findings. This study assessed the scientific quality of these conferences by investigating the publication rate of abstracts presented at DWG Annual Meetings (2017-2019, 2022) in peer-reviewed journals and analyzing factors influencing publication rates.
How did the publication rates of the annual meeting of the DWG evolve, and what factors influenced them.
MATERIAL & METHODS: We reviewed all accepted oral and poster presentations and conducted a PubMed database search (up to 10/2023) to determine publication rates, time to publication, research type, and topic distribution.
A total of 730 abstracts were presented, with 275 (37.6 %) published in peer-reviewed journals: 27.9 % (2017), 52.7 % (2018), 39.1 % (2019), and 29.9 % (2022). A subset of 61 (8.4 %) abstracts had already been published before the conference. The mean time to publication was 35.4 ± 22.3 months. Basic research and experimental studies constituted 22.1 % of abstracts, achieving a 44.1 % publication rate. Key research fields included spinal cord injury (16.9 %), biomechanics (14.8 %), spinal oncology (8.8 %), and bone and cartilage (4.4 %), while 55.1 % covered other spinal surgery topics.
DISCUSSION & CONCLUSIONS: With 37.6 % of abstracts published in PubMed-indexed journals, our findings highlight the scholarly impact of DWG meetings. These results reflect the scientific quality of submissions and provide insights for future improvements to enhance the DWG's research focus.
德国脊柱学会（DWG）年会是讨论最新学术成果的平台。本研究通过调查在DWG年会（2017 - 2019年、2022年）上发表的摘要在同行评审期刊上的发表率，并分析影响发表率的因素，来评估这些会议的科学质量。
DWG年会的发表率如何演变，以及哪些因素对其产生影响。
我们回顾了所有被接受的口头报告和海报展示，并进行了PubMed数据库检索（截至2023年10月），以确定发表率、发表时间、研究类型和主题分布。
共展示了730篇摘要，其中275篇（37.6%）在同行评审期刊上发表：2017年为27.9%，2018年为52.7%，2019年为39.1%，2022年为29.9%。61篇（8.4%）摘要在会议前就已发表。平均发表时间为35.4 ± 22.3个月。基础研究和实验研究占摘要的22.1%，发表率为44.1%。主要研究领域包括脊髓损伤（16.9%）、生物力学（14.8%）、脊柱肿瘤学（8.8%）以及骨与软骨（4.4%），而55.1%涵盖其他脊柱外科主题。
我们的研究结果表明，37.6%的摘要在PubMed索引期刊上发表，凸显了DWG会议的学术影响力。这些结果反映了提交摘要的科学质量，并为未来改进提供了见解，以加强DWG的研究重点。
