Design: A cross-sectional study
Setting: Oral abstracts from four national gynecologic surgical societies including AAGL, AUGS, SGO, and SGS.
Patients or Participants: N/A
Interventions: N/A
Measurements and Main Results: We reviewed all oral abstracts presented at four major gynecologic surgery meetings in 2018. Oral abstracts subsequently published as peer-reviewed manuscripts were compared to those that were not published. Descriptive statistical analysis and multivariable regression analyses were conducted to identify factors independently associated with peer-reviewed manuscript publication. A total of 396 oral presentation abstracts were identified: 205 from AAGL, 84 from AUGS, 79 from SGO, and 28 from SGS. The overall journal publication rate was 47.4% (188/396). The rate of publication of oral abstracts was 35.1% (72/205) for those presented at AAGL, 73.8% (62/84) for AUGS, 53.2% (42/79) for SGO and 42.9% (12/28) for SGS. In the univariate analysis, most variables were significantly associated with publication, including type of society meeting, higher number of authors, females as first and last authors, higher first and last authors’ H-index, academic affiliation, higher number of study participants, randomized controlled trials, and multicenter studies. In multivariable regression analysis, the following variables were independently associated with journal publication: last author’s H-index [aOR 95% CI 1.02 (1.00-1.03)], academic center affiliation [aOR 95% CI 2.29 (1.20-4.37)], and randomized controlled trials [aOR 95% CI 2.47 (1.12-5.47)]. In multivariable regression analysis including type of society meeting, AUGS presentation was associated with full-manuscript publication compared to AAGL presentation [aOR 95% CI 2.84 (1.32-6.10)].
Conclusion: In gynecologic surgery research, last researcher’s H-index, academic affiliation, randomized controlled trial design and type of societal meeting are associated with increased odds of an oral abstract ultimately reaching manuscript peer-reviewed publication.
Fitzsimmons, KC*1, Schneyer, RJ2, Toussia-Cohen, S3, Fan, S4, Farsa, NR5, Levin, G6, Wright, KN2, Meyer, R2. 1David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA; 2Obstetrics & Gynecology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel; 4Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; 5University of California, San Diego, San Diego; 6Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Quebec, Canada
