Author(s)
Forest W. Weir3, William H. Weir2, Stacey Ishman1
Affiliation(s)
1 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 2 University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, 3 University Of Cincinnati Medical Center
Abstract:
INTRODUCTION: While other otolaryngology conferences have been studied in presentation-to-publication trends, an analysis of these characteristics for papers resulting from the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology(ASPO) Annual Meeting has not yet been investigated. OBJECTIVE: To examine oral presentations at the ASPO Annual Meeting and to identify characteristics associated with publication success utilizing a novel search algorithm. METHODS: All oral presentations published in the official program of the ASPO Annual meetings from 2009-2014 were analyzed using a novel two-tiered stochastic algorithm, which searched the presentation title and the author’s last name across all titles and abstract text in PubMed for matching publications. Titles and PubMed ID’s returned in the second tier were reviewed by authors to confirm accuracy. RESULTS: We identified 306 oral presentations over this time period, 169 of which were eventually published (55%). The average time to publication was 15.6 months. The median author count was 5, and the most common type of study published was retrospective (34%), with the second most common being prospective (16%). The most common journal of 18 different journals published in was JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (57%) followed by International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology (15%). JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery displayed a significantly shorter length of time to publish (11 months) than other journals. CONCLUSIONS: The rate of publication from the ASPO Annual Meeting is similar to that of other otolaryngology conferences, with publications over multiple journals, showing a propensity for quality retrospective studies and an extensive review period.