Publication rate of abstracts presented at the annual meetings of the AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves

Miguel Bertelli Ramos; Carolina Matté Dagostini; Oded Rabau; Rodrigo Navarro-Ramirez; Jean A Ouellet; Asdrubal Falavigna; Alisson R Teles

doi:10.3171/2020.5.SPINE20466

Publication rate of abstracts presented at the annual meetings of the AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves

J Neurosurg Spine. 2020 Aug 21:854-861. doi: 10.3171/2020.5.SPINE20466. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Miguel Bertelli Ramos¹, Carolina Matté Dagostini¹, Oded Rabau², Rodrigo Navarro-Ramirez², Jean A Ouellet², Asdrubal Falavigna^{1

3}, Alisson R Teles^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ 1Department of Neurosurgery, Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Caxias do Sul-Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
² 2McGill Scoliosis and Spine Group, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and.
³ 3Neurosurgery and Spine Program, Hospital Beneficente São Carlos, Farroupilha, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

PMID: 32823260
DOI: 10.3171/2020.5.SPINE20466

Abstract

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the publication rate of abstracts presented at the annual meetings of the AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves (Spine Summit).

Methods: The authors used a search algorithm in PubMed to determine the publication rate of abstracts presented at the Spine Summit from 2007 to 2012. The variables assessed were presentation modality, topic, meeting year, publication year, destiny journal and its 5-year impact factor (IF), country, and citation count (retrieved from the Scopus database).

Results: One thousand four hundred thirty-six abstracts were analyzed; 502 were oral presentations and 934 were digital poster presentations. The publication rate was 53.97% (775/1436). The mean time from presentation to publication was 1.35 ± 1.97 years (95% CI 1.21-1.49 years). The mean citation count of published articles was 40.55 ± 55.21 (95% CI 36.66-44.44). Oral presentations had a higher publication rate (71.51%, 359/502) than digital posters (44.54%, 416/934; OR 3.13, 95% CI 2.48-3.95, p < 0.001). Oral presentations had a higher number of citations (55.51 ± 69.00, 95% CI 48.35-62.67) than digital posters (27.64 ± 34.88, 95% CI 24.28-31.00, p < 0.001). The mean IF of published articles was 3.48 ± 2.91 (95% CI 3.27-3.70). JNS: Spine (191/775, 24.64%), Spine (103/775, 13.29%), and Neurosurgery (56/775, 7.23%) had the greatest number of published articles. The US represented the highest number of published articles (616/775, 79.48%).

Conclusions: The publication rate of the Spine Summit is among the highest compared to other spine meetings. Many of the abstracts initially presented at the meeting are further published in high-IF journals and had a high citation count. Therefore, the Spine Summit maintains its high standards of scientific papers, which reflects the high quality of the research performed in the spine surgery field in North America.

Keywords: CSRS = Cervical Spine Research Society; CSRS-E = CSRS–European Section; CSS = Canadian Spine Society; IF = impact factor; ISSLS = International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine; JCR = Journal Citation Reports; JNS = Journal of Neurosurgery; LSRS = Lumbar Spine Research Society; NASS = North American Spine Society; congresses as topics; oral presentation; orthopedic surgery; posters.

Publication types

Review