Background Abstracts of presentations at scientific meetings are usually available only in
conference proceedings. If subsequent full publication of results reported in these abstracts …

Background It has been estimated that about 45% of abstracts that are accepted for
presentation at biomedical meetings will subsequently be published in full. The acceptance …

Despite considerable recent attention to problems with reproducibility of scientific research,
there is a striking lack of agreement about the definition of the term. That is a problem …

Beware of the unpublished abstract! What is the publication rate of abstracts presented at
Musculoskeletal Tumor Society meetings, and how does this compare with other …

Background: We studied the type and frequency of differences between data presented in
conference abstracts and subsequent published papers in the fields of infectious diseases …

This paper discusses the challenges of finding evidence needed to implement Evidence-
Based Librarianship (EBL). Focusing first on database coverage for three health sciences …

Objectives To determine the publication rate of mandatory research projects conducted by
obstetrics residents and to evaluate the publication-associated factors and reported …

PURPOSE: To determine the rate at which original studies that were presented orally at the
1995 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Scientific Assembly were published in …

Objective To examine abstracts presented at the American Academy of Otolaryngology-
Head and Neck Surgery Annual Meeting and to identify factors associated with publication …

The abstract to publication ratio (APR) is a measure of the quality of scientific meetings. The
aim of the present study was to determine the publication rate of abstracts presented at …