title: What happens to the abstracts presented at the Societè Internationale d'Urologie meeting?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To estimate the acceptance rate on peer-reviewed journals, describe the time-course of subsequent full publication, and identify those with characteristics associated with publication from the abstracts presented at the Societè Internationale d'Urologie (SIU) meeting.
  
  
  METHODS
  All abstracts accepted for presentation at the annual 2002 and 2004 SIU meetings were identified from the published supplements in the BJU International. The subsequent publication rate for the corresponding studies by scanning Medline was evaluated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Overall, 1877 abstracts were presented, 415 of which (22.1%) were followed by publication in peer-reviewed journals. The mean time to publication was 13 months (range, 1 to 45 months). A total of 60.6% of the published articles were in print within 1 year of presentation "In most of the cases the reports were published in The Journal of Urology (76 reports) and in Urology (49 reports). Abstracts on kidney cancer, urinary diversion, incontinence, and urolithiasis had the highest publication rates (43.4%, 36.6%, 33.3%, and 29.2%, respectively). Studies from North America and from Oceania had the highest publication rate (26.8% and 26.6%, respectively).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  One fifth of the abstracts presented at the SIU meetings are ultimately published in indexed journals. Delegates attending these meetings should be aware of this issue when taking into account findings from meeting reports for their clinical practice. Factors influencing their publication are the abstract geographical area of origin, the study subject, and the research type. The Journal of Urology and Urology represented target journals for the publication more than other ones.
authors.affiliation: Clinica Urologica, Seconda Universitá degli Studi, Napoli, Italy. ricautor@tin.it
authors.forename: Riccardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Autorino
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Quarto
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Di Lorenzo
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Giugliano
authors.forename: Carmelo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Quattrone
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Neri
authors.forename: Renato
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: De Domenico
authors.forename: Domenico
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sorrentino
authors.forename: Salvatore
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mordente
authors.forename: Rocco
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Damiano
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Sio
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014572:Urology