Publication Rates of Abstracts Presented at the 28th (2018) and 29th (2019) National Turkish Orthopaedics and Traumatology Congresses

Background and Aims: This study aims to determine the publication rates of abstracts presented at the 28 th (2018) and 29 th (2019) National Turkish Orthopaedics and Traumatology Congresses and to perform a bibliometric analysis of the resulting publications.Methods: All oral abstracts and poster presentations from the scientific meetings of the 28 th and 29 th National Turkish Orthopaedics and Traumatology Congresses were evaluated.PubMed and Google Scholar databases were searched to determine whether the abstracts had been published.Results: Of the 619 abstracts (357 oral presentations, 262 poster presentations) in the 28 th Congress booklet, 210 (33.91%) were published in peer-reviewed journals.Of the 583 abstracts (307 oral presentations, 276 poster presentations) in the 29 th Congress booklet, 170 (29.1%) were published.Among these, 126 (60%) and 107 (62.9%) were published in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) journals, while 30 (14.2%) and 27 (15.8%)appeared in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) journals, respectively.The mean time to publication for abstracts from the 28 th and 29 th congresses was 17.117.7 months (median: 15 months; range: -59 to 63 months) and 18.216.5months (median: 14.5 months; range: -29 to 53 months), respectively. Conclusion:The majority of abstracts presented at the 28 th and 29 th National Turkish Orthopaedics and Traumatology Congresses were not published as full articles in peerreviewed journals.The overall publication rate of abstracts presented at these congresses is 31.05%.This rate is similar to that of many national congresses held in Trkiye but lower than the rates observed at international orthopaedic and subspecialty congresses.