Sunulan Özetlerin Dönüşüm Oranı: ERCIM 2012 ve 14. Ulusal Biyoistatistik Kongresi Hakkında Bir Web Anket Çalışması

Abstract

Objective: The process of getting the abstracts published as journal articles is an exhaustive work due to the collection and analysis of clinical information, meticulously preparing manuscripts, statistical analysis of data, and subsequent critical peer review process. We investigate publication rate of abstracts presented at national and international statistics congresses in present study. For this purpose we considered abstracts presented at 5 th International Conference of the ERCIM Working Group on Computing&Statistics (ERCIM 2012) and 14 th National Biostatistics Congress of Turkey in 2012. Material and Methods: We invited participants who had participated ERCIM 2012 and 14 th National Biostatistics Congress to our study by sending e-mail to their e-mail adresses that obtain from abstract books. Results: The present analysis found that 19.40% of abstracts presented at 14 th National Biostatistics Congress and 51.90% of abstracts presented at ERCIM 2012 were published as full peer-reviewed journal articles. Percentage of presentations was not sent to any journal to publish for 14 th National Biostatistics Congress (51.60%) is higher than ERCIM 2012 (18.50%). In addition, percentage of presentation was accepted to be published in the journal for 14 th National Biostatistics Congress (19.40%) is lower than ERCIM 2012 (51.90%). Conclusion: Even if all of the presentations presented at the congress is not published, importance of congress is undeniable by the reason of scientific-social communications made at congress and meetings where new ideas are born.