1. Publication outcome of abstracts submitted to the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting*
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Gilad Allon, Eytan Z. Blumenthal, Liron Berkovitz, Hamza Abualhasan, Gil Amarilyo, Mark Krauthammer, Hanan Badarni, Michael Mimouni, Francis B. Mimouni, and Kamal Imtanis
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Paper ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Meeting ,Abstracting and Indexing ,education ,lcsh:Medicine ,Health Informatics ,Outcomes ,Library and Information Sciences ,03 medical and health sciences ,Abstracts ,0302 clinical medicine ,Ophthalmology, Publication ,Ophthalmology ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Societies, Medical ,Impact Factor ,Publishing ,Impact factor ,business.industry ,lcsh:R ,Congresses as Topic ,lcsh:Z ,United States ,lcsh:Bibliography. Library science. Information resources ,030221 ophthalmology & optometry ,Journal Impact Factor ,Periodicals as Topic ,business - Abstract
Objective: Abstracts submitted to meetings are subject to less rigorous peer review than full-text manuscripts. This study aimed to explore the publication outcome of abstracts presented at the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) annual meeting. Methods: Abstracts presented at the 2008 AAO meeting were analyzed. Each presented abstract was sought via PubMed to identify if it had been published as a full-text manuscript. The publication outcome, journal impact factor (IF), and time to publication were recorded. Results: A total of 690 abstracts were reviewed, of which 39.1% were subsequently published. They were published in journals with a median IF of 2.9 (range 0–7.2) and a median publication time of 426 days (range 0–2,133 days). A quarter were published in the journal Ophthalmology, with a shorter time to publication (median 282 vs. 534 days, p =0.003). Oral presentations were more likely to be published than poster presentations (57.8% vs. 35.9%, p
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- 2018
