Subsequent full publication of abstracts presented in the annual meetings of the Spanish Society of Cardiology.
OBJECTIVE
The Spanish Society of Cardiology holds an annual national meeting with a large number of presentations but the number of full-text publications resulting from these presentations and the journals accepting these manuscripts is unknown. This study aimed to identify the full-text publication rate of accepted abstracts and to analyze the bibliometric features of subsequent publications.


METHODS
We randomly selected a sample of 300 oral presentations at the meetings of the Spanish Society of Cardiology in 2002, 2005 and 2008. Subsequent publications were identified through the Science Citation Index-Expanded, Scopus, Índice Médico Español, and Índice Bibliográfico Español en Ciencias de la Salud.


RESULTS
Of 300 abstracts, 115 resulted in 147 full publications, representing a publication rate of 38.33%. The meeting with the highest publication rate (43%) was held in 2005. The subject category with the highest number of publications was Pediatric Cardiology/Congenital Heart Disease (58.8%). Time to full publication was usually 2 years (30.61%). Articles were published in 57 journals. The journals publishing the highest number of articles were Revista Española de Cardiología (n=55; 37.41%) and the European Heart Journal (n=8; 5.44%).


CONCLUSIONS
The high percentage of articles published in the upper half of journals listed in Journal Citation Reports under the category of cardiac and cardiovascular system (83%) can be taken as an objective quality indicator of the results presented at these meetings. However, more than 60% of the abstracts did not result in full publications, thus depriving the scientific community of potentially interesting results.
Departamento de Historia de la Ciencia y Documentación, Facultad de Medicina y Odontología, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain. Electronic address: Adolfo.Alonso@uv.es.
Adolfo
A
Alonso-Arroyo
UISYS, Unidad de Información e Investigación Social y Sanitaria, Universidad de Valencia-CSIC, IHMC «López Piñero», Valencia, Spain.
Rafael
R
Aleixandre-Benavent
Departamento de Historia de la Ciencia y Documentación, Facultad de Medicina y Odontología, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Antonio
A
Vidal-Infer
Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain.
Manuel
M
Anguita-Sánchez
Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia, INCLIVA, Departamento de Medicina de la Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Francisco J
FJ
Chorro-Gascó
UISYS, Unidad de Información e Investigación Social y Sanitaria, Universidad de Valencia-CSIC, IHMC «López Piñero», Valencia, Spain.
Máxima
M
Bolaños-Pizarro
UISYS, Unidad de Información e Investigación Social y Sanitaria, Universidad de Valencia-CSIC, IHMC «López Piñero», Valencia, Spain.
Lourdes
L
Castelló-Cogollos
Instituto de Documentación y Tecnologías de la Información, Universidad Católica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Carolina
C
Navarro-Molina
Instituto de Documentación y Tecnologías de la Información, Universidad Católica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Juan C
JC
Valderrama-Zurián
D015706:Bibliometrics; D002309:Cardiology / Q000639:trends*; D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013030:Spain
Congresos; IF; Meetings; Publicaciones derivadas; Sociedad Española de Cardiología; Spanish Society of Cardiology; Subsequent publications; impact factor