Science in surgical publishing

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Science in surgical publishing insights from a
decade of Scientific Surgery
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Background
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Background
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Background
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Scientific Surgery

• Established 1998
• Only online archive of surgical trials
• Updated to include BJS 2007 to 2009

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Aim

• To determine whether randomised clinical trials
  have increased as a proportion of original
  articles in the surgical literature

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Methods

• Scientific Surgery
• Journal contents cross-referenced
• Citation count determined from Google Scholar
• Five major general surgical journals

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Scientific Surgery Contents
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RCTs in leading surgical journals
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RCTs in leading surgical journals
P 0.002
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RCTs proportion of original articles
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RCTs as proportion of original articles
Plt0.001
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Median citations per RCT
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Median citations per RCT
P0.023
P0.007
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Comparison with medical journals
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Comment

• Surgical publication pattern has changed
• Now comparable with specialist medical journals
• BJS publication pattern has significantly changed

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