A descriptive analysis of abstracts presented at the Turkish National Cardiology Congresses between 2011 and 2015

• Published in: Anatolian journal of cardiology 2018-07, Vol.20 (1), p.16-20
• Main Authors: Oktay, Veysel, Çalpar Çıralı, İlknur, Serin, Ebru, Sansoy, Vedat
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Original Investigation
• ISSN: 2149-2263; 2149-2271
• DOI: 10.14744/AnatolJCardiol.2018.94803

The aim of this study was to investigate the scientific publication performance of the abstracts presented at the annual Turkish National Cardiology Congress (TNCC) between 2011 and 2015 and to analyze the variables associated with publication. The accepted abstracts of five congresses (2011-2015) were screened using the title and names of all authors in English via PubMed and Google Scholar databases. The parameters recorded included presentation type, publication rate, time to publication, affiliated institution, journal name and average impact factor, and average citation number per year for each publication. A total of 2897 abstracts (966 oral presentations and 1931 poster presentations) were accepted in five meetings and 23.4% (n=680) of these were published in national or international peer-reviewed journals. Of the published articles, 32.6% (n=222) were oral presentations and 67.4% (n=458) were poster presentations. The mean time to publication of oral and poster presentations were similar [9 (0-58) vs. 8 (0-62) months, p = 0.150]. According to the type of institution, university hospitals had the highest ratio of publication (58.6%) (p