To verify the publication rate of the abstracts presented at the XII Brazilian Congress of Experimental Surgery.
We performed a cross-sectional study that evaluated if the abstracts accepted for presentation at the XII Brazilian Congress of Experimental Surgery were published in periodics. The information was acquired using the Scielo, Medline / Pubmed, LILACS and Google Scholar databases.
From all the abstracts presented, only 77 (40.52%) were published in scientific journals. Of this total, 14 (18.18%) were published prior to the conference 35 (45.45%) in the same year that occurred congress, 56 (72.72%) in the period 2011-2013 and 63 (81, 81%) between the Congress and the year 2015. Regarding the geographical distribution of summaries, 42 (22%) were from the northern region, 19 (10%) from the Northeast, 8 (4%) Midwest, 116 (61%) from the Southeast and 5 (3%) from the south.
The publication rate of the abstracts presented at the XII Brazilian Congress of Experimental Surgery was 40,52%, most from the state of Sao Paulo.
PhD, Full Professor, Department of Experimental Surgery, School of Medicine, Universidade do Estado do Pará (UEPA), Belem-PA, Brazil. Conception, design, intellectual and scientific content of the study; critical revision.
Marcus Vinicius Henriques
MV
Brito
PhD, Full Professor, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, School of Medicine, UEPA, Belem-PA, Brazil. Critical revision.
Nara Macedo
NM
Botelho
PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Experimental Surgery, School of Medicine, UEPA, Belem-PA, Brazil. Critical revision.
Edson Yuzur
EY
Yasojima
Fellow Master degree, Postgraduate Program in Surgery and Experimental Research, UEPA, Belem-PA, Brazil. Conception, design, intellectual and scientific content of the study; interpretation of data; manuscript writing.
Renan Kleber Costa
RK
Teixeira
Graduate student, School of Medicine, UEPA, Belem-PA, Brazil. Acquisition and interpretation of data, statistical analysis.
Vitor Nagai
VN
Yamaki
Graduate student, School of Medicine, UEPA, Belem-PA, Brazil. Manuscript preparation, interpretation of data.
Daniel Haber
DH
Feijó
MD, School of Medicine, UEPA, Belem-PA, Brazil. Acquisition and interpretation of data, manuscript writing.
Igor Nagai
IN
Yamaki
Graduate student, School of Medicine, UEPA, Belem-PA, Brazil. Acquisition and interpretation of data, manuscript preparation.
Carolina Ribeiro
CR
Mainardi
D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001938:Brazil; D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D013502:General Surgery / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*