The academic impact of 20 years of Irish otolaryngology society conferences
& Purpose: The Irish Otolaryngology Society (IOS) conference takes place annually. This conference allows surgeons and surgical trainees from Ireland and abroad an opportunity to showcase research ideas from their respective centres. This allows them to disseminate results, accept critique, and...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The surgeon (Edinburgh) 2022-12, Vol.20 (6), p.e423-e428 |
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Zusammenfassung: | & Purpose: The Irish Otolaryngology Society (IOS) conference takes place annually. This conference allows surgeons and surgical trainees from Ireland and abroad an opportunity to showcase research ideas from their respective centres. This allows them to disseminate results, accept critique, and obtain different perspectives.
We sought to examine research presented at the IOS meetings over 20 years. We aimed to analyse the publication rates, impact factor of journals, and citation rates of presented abstracts.
All oral presentations from IOS conferences were analysed between 2000 and 2019. Presentation titles and authors were searched using Pubmed, Google Scholar and Research Gate. We identified scientific publications which resulted from the research presented and the characteristics of each publication.
Of 703 presentations made at the conferences spanning 20 years, 30.15% (n = 212) went on to publish their research averaging 19 citations per publication. Median time to publication was 2 years (-1-11). Each year there have been an increasing number of oral presentations with a declining publication rate.
The Irish otolaryngology society meeting is a high-quality meeting with comparable publication rates to similar international conferences. Despite this, many presentations do not have any lasting impact as they are not published. The increasing pressure for trainees to rapidly present research projects without emphasis on completion of projects may explain the declining publication rate. Our study highlights the importance of completing high-quality research projects through publication. Meaningful conclusions from these projects can add to the body of knowledge and contribute to evidence-based practice.
•This study sought to determine the academic impact of the annual Irish Otolaryngology Society conference through publications.•Over the 20 years and 703 presentations included in our study, 212 resulted in full text publication in a peer reviewd journal (30.17%) comparable to other high quality conferences.•Each year there has been a slowly declining publicaition rate and decling number of international presentations.•We would advocate for the completeion of high quality research and publication in scientific journals so that results may be repeated and add to evidence based practise. |
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ISSN: | 1479-666X 2405-5840 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.surge.2022.02.006 |