Improving publication rates in a collaborative clinical trials research network

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• 作者：Stephanie Wilson Archer ; MA^a ; ^{archerst@mail.nih.gov" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Waldemar A. Carlo ; MD^b ; William E. Truog ; MD^c ; David K. Stevenson ; MD^d ; Krisa P. Van Meurs ; MD^d ; Pablo J. Sá ; nchez ; MD^e ; ^f ; Abhik Das ; PhD^g ; Uday Devaskar ; MD^h ; Leif D. Nelin ; MD^f ; Carolyn M. Petrie Huitema ; MS ; CCRP^g ; Margaret M. Crawford ; BS ; CCRP^g ; Rosemary D. Higgins ; MD^a ; for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health ; Human Development Neonatal Research Network
• 关键词：Publication rates ; Network collaboration ; Authorship policies
• 刊名：Seminars in Perinatology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：40
• 期：6
• 页码：410-417
• 全文大小：1216 K

文摘

Unpublished results can bias biomedical literature, favoring positive over negative findings, primary over secondary analyses, and can lead to duplicate studies that unnecessarily endanger subjects and waste resources. The Neonatal Research Networkʼs (NRN) publication policies for approving, reviewing, and tracking abstracts and papers work to combat these problems. In 2003, the NRN restricted investigators with unfinished manuscripts from proposing new ones and in 2010, urged authors to complete long-outstanding manuscripts. Data from 1991 to 2015 were analyzed to determine effectiveness of these policy changes. The NRN has achieved an overall publication rate of 78% for abstracts. For 1990–2002, of 137 abstracts presented, 43 (31%) were published within 2 years; for 2003–2009, after the manuscript completion policy was instituted, of 140 abstracts presented, 68 (49%) were published within 2 years. Following the effort in 2010, the rate increased to 64%. The NRN surpassed reported rates by developing a comprehensive process, holding investigators accountable and tracking abstracts from presentation to publication.