Publications In Indexed Journals Research Articles

Intellectual endogamy in the university

This article aims to analyse the multiple ways in which the neoliberal regulation of knowledge is negotiated by returning Chilean scholars. The data gathered suggest the construction of knowledge is highly regulated by a principle of intellectual endogamy. Intellectual endogamy is characterised by conservatism, reflected in a lack of diversity in research themes and problems and maintained by a peer-review system that controls scholars’ access to research funds. However, it is also characterised by instrumentalism, which is reflected in the requirements for obtaining research funds, such as publications in indexed journals and discourses of efficiency and productivity. Both facets engender a neoliberal regulation of academic work. This research encourages an expansion of the conversation about how academic mobility affects knowledge construction.

International Collaborative Donor Project

The International Donor Collaborative Project (PCID) research group was created in 1996 in Spain with the aim of promoting research in the field of organ donation and transplantation, led by Spanish surgeons. During this period they have developed the questionnaires of the PCID, both the attitude towards cadaver and live donation, which are the most used questionnaires in publications in indexed journals. They have been the driving group of stratified studies representative of the populations under study, and of the performance of multivariate statistical analyses in the field of psycho-social research in organ donation and transplantation. The main contributions of the group focus on the analysis of health center professionals and emerging migrant groups. In recent years, studies have been extended to the United States, Latin America (mainly Mexico) and Europe.

Proyecto colaborativo internacional donante

The International Donor Collaborative Project (PCID) research group was created in 1996 in Spain with the aim of promoting research in the field of organ donation and transplantation, led by Spanish surgeons. During this period they have developed the questionnaires of the PCID, both the attitude towards cadaver and live donation, which are the most used questionnaires in publications in indexed journals. They have been the driving group of stratified studies representative of the populations under study, and of the performance of multivariate statistical analyzes in the field of psycho-social research in organ donation and transplantation. The main contributions of the group focus on the analysis of health center professionals and emerging migrant groups. In recent years, studies have been extended to the United States, Latin America (mainly Mexico) and Europe.

Republication-predatory journals: A downside on research and hampering the impact and relevance of scientific outcome

The advancement of medical knowledge is quintessentially based on the authentic and reliable scientific research and publications. This is in addition to the recently mandated requirement of original research publications in indexed journals to ensure career progression in academic/medical institutions; thus, the need for ‘publications’ in scientific medical scholarly journals has increased substantially. On the other hand, this has given an unparalleled rise in the number of standalone journals and publishers ‘predatory’ is the term, who are ready to process the manuscripts on priority with almost guaranteed publication, at a cost, but having no credibility to the research being published. To foster awareness creation among students at the post-graduate level and for faculty of medical colleges and research institutions, it has become very important to avoid these predatory journals. It is high time that the thinking among researchers of ‘publish or perish’ be changed to ‘Publish and Flourish’ by adopting stringent measures which have evolved over time to curtail this birch of predatory publishing. Researchers should now take the road less travelled. This review article aims to highlight all the relevant and important points about the threats posed by predatory journals and also suggests possible ways to overcome them. Republished with permission from: Jain NC, Khan GS. Predatory Journals: A Downside on Research and Hampering the Impact and Relevance of Scientific Outcome. RUHS J Health Sci 2018;3:99-105.

La importancia de las publicaciones científicas en el ranking de universidades: reto para una universidad pública

Antecedentes: La evaluación de la excelencia académica de las universidades toma en cuenta varios indicadores, uno de los más determinantes es la investigación científica, que a su vez es usualmente medida por el número y el impacto de las publicaciones en revistas indexadas. Las universidades necesitan saber su posición en relación al resto de universidades del mundo para desarrollar planes de mejoramiento. Objetivo: estimar cuánto del crédito por investigación que la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC) merece, pudiera estar siendo detectado y evaluado por las entidades dedicadas a estratificar las universidades según su rendimiento académico. Material y método: estudio exploratorio de datos obtenidos de PubMed sobre artículos científicos atribuibles a la USAC, publicados antes del 2017. Los datos bibliométricos analizados incluyeron la cantidad de artículos y el número de citas por artículo. Resultados: En 102 artículos se logró obtener alguna asociación de la publicación con la USAC. La mayoría de artículos no le otorgó crédito a la USAC de manera correcta. Discusión: Los artículos de la USAC listados en PubMed son escasos, generalmente menos de 5 artículos por año. Solo 26 artículos han sido citados 26 o más veces en revistas indexadas. No hay consistencia en la manera de otorgar crédito a la USAC. En los últimos años se nota una mejoría en la cantidad y diversidad de publicaciones. Se considera que la USAC puede mejorar su posicionamiento implementando medidas sencillas.

THE MANAGEMENT OF LABOR TRAINING IN THE SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

It presents an experience that distinguishes the management of labor training in scientific activity, as a university development project, based on an integrative conception that guides professionals towards the provision of a service and / or the obtaining of products of utility and necessity Social transformation in the course of life. It makes it possible to develop the personality qualities of the work, which together allow directionality to the professional's performance to be involved in the solution of the problems present in the socio-labor context. There are also practical requirements that take into account cultural traditions, from the process of socialization of systematized codes of culture, typical of school-university-business relations and socio-cultural codes coming from the environment through the affective areas , Socio-moral development, intellectual, cognitive and aesthetic taste. It has a practice accumulated in research for more than 20 years, in undergraduate and postgraduate training where the research results are part of the project associated with the National Program of the Center for Studies for Labor Training. The impacts have a national and provincial scope, are endorsed by the scientific community since its presentation in numerous events, methodological activities, socialization workshops, student scientific work, courses, diplomas, diplomas, postgraduate specialty in Management and Development of Training Laboral, master's thesis, doctorate; As well as publications in indexed journals and the obtaining of different prizes.

PTH-125 BSG VS UEG – Which Annual Meeting has The Highest Conversion Rate of Abstracts to Full Publication?

Introduction Abstract presentations at scientific meetings allow rapid dissemination of novel research and enables peer review before submission for publication. The percentage of abstracts that achieve full publication, however is variable ranging between 11–78% from other medical specialty meetings. This study evaluates the conversion rate of abstracts presented at the BSG annual meeting, and comperes the outcome from this national meeting with another internationally recognised gastrointestinal meeting (UEGW). Methods All abstracts presented at the BSG between 1994 and 2008 were reviewed in Nov 2012. UEGW meeting abstracts between 2009 and 2011 were reviewed in October 2014. Review dates for both the BSG and UEGW abstracts were at least 3 years post the last meeting evaluated, which is a previously reported upper limit timescale for subsequent full publication. PUBMED and EMBASE databases were reviewed using cross-referencing of first author, senior author and at least one key word from the abstract title. Abstracts and possible full publications were then examined in tandem to ensure they represented the same study. Abstracts that were withdrawn were excluded from the study. In addition to publication rates, data was collected on lag time to publication and journal impact factors. Statistical analyses were performed using contingency tables and chi squared statistics for categorical data using SPSS version 20.0. Results Over a 15 year period (1994–2008) the conversion rate of BSG abstracts to full publication was 33.4% (2273/6798, mean impact factor of published journal = 3.8). The mean lag time until publication was 23 months, with service development abstracts having the lowest conversion rate of 6.9% (8/116). Of the 6560 abstracts presented at UEGW meetings between 2009–2011, 31.0% (2033/6560) went on to full publication in indexed journals (mean impact factor = 3.93). The mean lag time between UEG abstract presentation and full publication was 16 months. The conversion rate of BSG abstracts is broadly comparable to UEGW, however it did achieve a statistically significant difference (33.4% vs.31.0% p = 0.003). Conclusion This study demonstrates that the BSG compares favourably to another internationally recognised gastroenterology meeting with regards to the outcomes of its abstracts. Findings from this work provides reassurances to researchers that submission to the BSG annual meeting is worthwhile, and that the peer-review process provided increases the likelihood of success in achieving subsequent full publication. Disclosure of Interest None Declared

Association Between Study Quality and Publication Rates of Medical Education Abstracts Presented at the Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting.

Studies reveal that 44.5% of abstracts presented at national meetings are subsequently published in indexed journals, with lower rates for abstracts of medical education scholarship. We sought to determine whether the quality of medical education abstracts is associated with subsequent publication in indexed journals, and to compare the quality of medical education abstracts presented as scientific abstracts versus innovations in medical education (IME). Retrospective cohort study. Medical education abstracts presented at the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) 2009 annual meeting. Publication rates were measured using database searches for full-text publications through December 2013. Quality was assessed using the validated Medical Education Research Study Quality Instrument (MERSQI). Overall, 64 (44%) medical education abstracts presented at the 2009 SGIM annual meeting were subsequently published in indexed medical journals. The MERSQI demonstrated good inter-rater reliability (intraclass correlation range, 0.77-1.00) for grading the quality of medical education abstracts. MERSQI scores were higher for published versus unpublished abstracts (9.59 vs. 8.81, p = 0.03). Abstracts with a MERSQI score of 10 or greater were more likely to be published (OR 3.18, 95% CI 1.47-6.89, p = 0.003). ). MERSQI scores were higher for scientific versus IME abstracts (9.88 vs. 8.31, p < 0.001). Publication rates were higher for scientific abstracts (42 [66%] vs. 37 [46%], p = 0.02) and oral presentations (15 [23%] vs. 6 [8%], p = 0.01). The publication rate of medical education abstracts presented at the 2009 SGIM annual meeting was similar to reported publication rates for biomedical research abstracts, but higher than publication rates reported for medical education abstracts. MERSQI scores were associated with higher abstract publication rates, suggesting that attention to measures of quality--such as sampling, instrument validity, and data analysis--may improve the likelihood that medical education abstracts will be published.

Simposium 19: Teaching Offers Many Possibilities

K-Education(Portuguese) Chair: V. Trindade Bayardo Torres; Clovis Wannmacher; Denise Macedo Teaching Offers Many Possibilities Denise Vaz Macedo Biochemistry Department, Biology Institute, Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil. In the last years my research lines are maintained exclusively through my biochemistry teaching activities at graduation and specialization course (360h). The teaching methodology used was developed over these 20 years into the classroom research. It is based on five practical activities carried out at the initial moment by the students themselves, who monitor the effects of different physical activity situations through the measurement of some plasma metabolites on point of care devices. After instructions the students perform the exercises collects and tabulate the data generated and document all the doubts arising. The educational goal right now is to show that the theory related to muscle contraction, the ATP-producing metabolic pathways is linked to their profession. At adequate moments each group presents to the whole class the practical activity carried out, the data and the doubts produced. After a fully discussion the students are able to relate the data to the studied theory. Also the initial doubts are clarified. A questionnaire applied before and after the discipline indicates the learning effectiveness of this method. Some other results: the students who have demonstrated special interest in the classroom normally join into de lab. Simultaneously they are also prepared for the teaching activity. The demand of specialization course is greater than the supply. The financial resources generated are expressive and administered by the University Foundation. They are fully applied to purchase permanent and consumption materials and for the payment of eventual scholarships for lab researchers. The publication in indexed journals has been constant and regular, and the obtained experimental results always return to the classroom, allowing that consistently an activity feed the other. Interestingly, it's so unlikely the possibility of teaching funding a research lab that in CV Lattes there is not possible to document it. Only research projects financed by the grant agencies are accepted. However, our experience shows that there are alternatives that must be considered.

Is professional recognition in plastic surgery related to activity in research

To evaluate the relation of medical research, with the participation of prominent plastic surgeon in Congress. We reviewed the scientific programs of the last 3 Brazilian Congress of Surgery, were selected 21 Brazilian plástic surgeons invited to serve as panelists or speakers in roundtable sessions in the last 3 congresses (Group 1). We randomly selected and paired by other members (associates) of the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery, with no participation in congress as speaker (Group 2). We conducted a search for articles published in journals indexed in Medline, Lilacs and SciELO for all doctors selected during the entire academic career and the last 5 years from March 2007 until March 2012. We assessed the research activity through the simple counting of the number of publications in indexed journals for each professional. The number of publications groups was compared. articles produced throughout career: Group 1- 639 articles (average of 30.42 items each). Group 2- 79 articles (mean 3.95 articles each). Difference between medias: p <0.001. The results demonstrate that the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery seeking professionals with a greater number of publications and journals of higher impact. This approach encourages new members to pursue a higher qualification, and give security to congressmen, they can rely on the existence of a technical criterion in the choice of speakers.

Auditing Social Science and Humanities Journals: The View of an Editor in a Malaysian Research University

It is common practice for a university to have many journals located within different schools and faculties in order to help young researchers publish their work and gain confidence in their writing abilities. The focus of this paper is with the journals that are not listed in databases and cater only to academics within a school to serve as an avenue for publication. When the National University of Malaysia was accorded research university status recently, publications and research became an important indicator of the performance of the university. This led to a new demand for publications in indexed journals and for increasing citations. Hence, it was timely to conduct an ‘in-house evaluation’ of journals within the university, focusing particularly on the social sciences and humanities journals. An evaluation was conducted using the basic criteria for journals included in the database Scopus, and measures were then proposed to improve the journals. This exercise was meant to help the journals that had a long publishing history to rise to the challenges of being scholarly journals in an era of competitiveness, databases and indexes.

Publicação de trabalhos científicos apresentados em Congresso de Trauma no Brasil

To assess the proportion of papers presented at the XXI Panamerican Congress of Trauma, VIII Congress of the Brazilian Society of Integrated Assistance to the Traumatized (SBAIT) and X Brazilian Congress of Trauma Leagues (CoLT) that were published in full. In the events cited, based in Campinas in 2008, 347 papers abstracts of were presented and published. To evaluate the proportion of complete published works a retrospective observational study was conducted, reviewing the biomedical databases PubMed and SciELO, with support from Google, from the title of the abstracts and list of authors. Of 347 papers considered, 25 (7.3%) were from foreign services and 322 (92.7%) national. Ten (2.9%) papers were published, of which six (1.7%) of nursing and four (1.2%) medical. Among these, four thesis publications were identified and only one international work has been published. Despite a large number of papers presented at trauma conferences in Brazil, the publications in this area are rare. The academy and the societies of surgery need to encourage the submission of scientific papers even before the presentation in Congresses in order for them to be evaluated for publication in indexed journals.

Not Published, Not Indexed: Issues in Generating and Finding Hospice and Palliative Care Literature

Accessing new knowledge as the evidence base for hospice and palliative care grows has specific challenges for the discipline. This study aimed to describe conversion rates of palliative and hospice care conference abstracts to journal articles and to highlight that some palliative care literature may not be retrievable because it is not indexed on bibliographic databases. Substudy A tracked the journal publication of conference abstracts selected for inclusion in a gray literature database on www.caresearch.com.au . Abstracts were included in the gray literature database following handsearching of proceedings of over 100 Australian conferences likely to have some hospice or palliative care content that were held between 1980 and 1999. Substudy B looked at indexing from first publication until 2001 of three international hospice and palliative care journals in four widely available bibliographic databases through systematic tracing of all original papers in the journals. Substudy A showed that for the 1338 abstracts identified only 15.9% were published (compared to an average in health of 45%). Published abstracts were found in 78 different journals. Multiauthor abstracts and oral presentations had higher rates of conversion. Substudy B demonstrated lag time between first publication and bibliographic indexing. Even after listing, idiosyncratic noninclusions were identified. There are limitations to retrieval of all possible literature through electronic searching of bibliographic databases. Encouraging publication in indexed journals of studies presented at conferences, promoting selection of palliative care journals for database indexing, and searching more than one bibliographic database will improve the accessibility of existing and new knowledge in hospice and palliative care.

Masters theses from a university medical college: Publication in indexed scientific journals

Background:The thesis is an integral part of postgraduate medical education in India. Publication of the results of the thesis in an indexed journal is desirable; it validates the research and makes results available to researchers worldwide.Aims:To determine publication rates in indexed journals, of works derived from theses, and factors affecting publication.Settings and Design:Postgraduate theses submitted over a five-year period (2001-05) in a university medical college were analyzed in a retrospective, observational study.Materials and Methods:Data retrieved included name and gender of postgraduate student, names, department and hierarchy of supervisor and co-supervisor(s), year submitted, study design, sample size, and statistically significant difference between groups. To determine subsequent publication in an indexed journal, Medline search was performed up to December 2007.Statistical Analysis:Chi square test was used to compare publication rates based on categorical variables; Student's t-test was used to compare differences based on continuous variables.Results:One hundred and sixty theses were retrieved, forty-eight (30%) were published. Papers were published 8-74 (33.7 ± 17.33) months after thesis submission; the postgraduate student was first author in papers from 26 (54%) of the published theses. Gender of the student, department of origin, year of thesis submission, hierarchy of the supervisor, number and department of co-supervisors, and thesis characteristics did not influence publication rates.Conclusions:Rate of publication in indexed journals, of papers derived from postgraduate theses is 30%. In this study we were unable to identify factors that promote publication.

Free communication presentations in sport medicine and science meetings and publication in indexed journals

O principal objetivo do estudo foi investigar a taxa de publicacao dos temas livres – formatos oral e poster - apresentados nos congressos do American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) e do Centro de Estudos do Laboratorio de Aptidao Fisica de Sao Caetano do Sul (CELAFISCS). Foram selecionados aleatoriamente 100 temas livres (50 orais e 50 posteres) nos congressos do CELAFISCS e do ACSM e aqueles apresentados pelos brasileiros nesse ultimo, realizados no ano 2001, sendo calculada a taxa de publicacao nos seis anos subsequentes. Para as estrategias de busca, foram utilizadas as seguintes base de dados: Scielo, Medline, Sport Discus, LILACS e EMBASE. A taxa de publicacao dos temas livres do ACSM foi signifi cativamente maior do que a taxa de publicacao daqueles apresentados no CELAFISCS para as formas oral (30 vs. 12%, P = 0,003), poster (34 vs. 2%, P = 0,000) e oral + poster (32 vs. 7%, P = 0,000). Nao houve diferenca signifi cativa da taxa de publicacao de temas livres oral e poster no ACSM (30 vs. 34%, P = 0,649), ao contrario do que se observou no CELAFISCS (12 vs. 2%, P = 0,013) e para os brasileiros no ACSM (56 vs. 26%, P = 0,000). Esses dados podem contribuir para a tomada de decisao de pareceristas e assessores responsaveis pela concessao de auxilios fi nanceiros para pesquisadores e eventos cientifi cos. Estudos futuros sao necessarios para determinar as causas dessas baixas taxas de publicacao.

An observational study of the proceedings of the All India Ophthalmological Conference, 2000 and subsequent publication in indexed journals

To determine the quality of reporting in the proceedings of the All India Ophthalmological Conference (AIOC) 2000, subsequent rate of publication in an indexed journal and differences between the proceedings and the journal version of these papers. Observational study. All papers presented at the AIOC 2000 were retrieved from the proceedings and assessed for completeness of reporting. To determine the subsequent full publication, a Medline search was performed as of January 2007; consistency between the proceedings paper and the final publication was evaluated. Chi square and Fisher's exact tests were used to compare publication rates based on geographical location, subspecialty and study design; Student's t -test was used to compare differences based on the number of authors and sample size. Two hundred papers were retrieved; many failed to include study dates, design or statistical methods employed. Thirty-three (16.5%) papers were subsequently published in indexed journals by January 2007. The published version differed from the proceedings paper in 27 (81.8%) instances, mostly relating to changes in author name, number or sequence. The overall quality of reporting of scientific papers in the proceedings of the AIOC 2000 was inadequate and many did not result in publication in an indexed journal. Differences between the published paper in journals and in proceedings were seen in several instances. Ophthalmologists should be cautious about using the information provided in conference proceedings in their ophthalmic practice.

Scientific dissemination of medical dissertations at the University of Lomé (Togo)

The medicine dissertation is often the last step of a physician's medical studies. Long considered a rite of passage, it is now regarded as a scientific work deserving attention from the national and international scientific community. The objectives of this study were to document the means by which dissertations at the University of Lomé Medical School are diffused and to determine their impact on the scientific production of medical school faculty. This cross-sectional study included all dissertations in medicine at the University of Lomé from 1993 through 2002. We interviewed dissertation supervisors and co-supervisors (questionnaire-structured interviews) and consulted the Medline and CNRS/PASCAL databases, scientific communication registers and local journals to collect information. During this period, 240 dissertations were defended at the University of Lomé medical school. More than half came from the departments of medicine (n=85, 35.4%), surgery (n=57, 23.7%) and paediatrics (n=51, 22.5%). The majority dealt with epidemiological (47 %) and clinical (35.8 %) themes, and only a small minority concerned topics in microbiology and biochemistry (7.5 %). Ninety-nine dissertations (41 %) were published: 54 (22.5%) in indexed journals and 45 (18.5 %) in non-indexed journals; 130 (54%) were delivered as papers or posters at scientific meetings. The distribution of published dissertations according to department showed that the departments of paediatrics (51.3 %), medicine (21.2 %) and surgery (21 %) had the best rates of publication in indexed journals, compared with obstetrics and gynaecology (4 %) and basic science (13.8 %) departments. During the study period, faculty at the University of Lomé medical school published 264 articles in indexed journals: dissertations accounted for only 20.4 %. Dissertations made up a higher proportion of publications in the paediatrics department (32.2 %) than in surgery (20.7 %), medicine (19.8 %), basis sciences (14 %) or obstetrics and gynaecology (3.6 %). Our study shows that the proportion of published dissertations remains small and is even smaller if we consider only those published in indexed journals (22.5 %). Dissertations also account for an insignificant proportion of the publications by medical school faculty. This raises the question of the scientific interest that the faculty accord to these dissertations.

Research presented at AMTC subsequent publication in indexed journals

The authors postulated that there was a low rate of subsequent publication in indexed journals for papers and posters presented at the annual Air Medical Transport Conference. They undertook this retrospective review to confirm the hypothesis. Abstract titles and authors were obtained from the conference issues of the air medical associations' publication from 1987 to 1990. The literature was searched by first and second authors for 1987 through the first six months of 1992 using a computerized search, then cross-referenced by manual search using the title. The number of abstracts presented as a paper or poster during the four-year period totaled 311. Twelve out of those were subsequently published as full papers in indexed journals for a publication rate of 4%—significantly below that of two comparable organizations sponsoring medical-scientific meetings. The reasons for this low publication rate must be identified and corrected if air medical research is going to achieve widespread credibility.

Research presented at AAMS: Subsequent publication in indexed journals

Research presented at AAMS: Subsequent publication in indexed journals