Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy
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Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy · Nov 2009
An analysis of abstracts presented to the college on problems of drug dependence meeting and subsequent publication in peer review journals.
Subsequent publication rate of abstracts presented at meetings is seen as an indicator of the interest and quality of the meeting. We have analyzed characteristics and rate publication in peer-reviewed journals derived from oral communications and posters presented at the 1999 College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) meeting. ⋯ One out of every three abstracts presented to the 1999 CPDD meeting were later published in peer-reviewed journals indexed in Medline. The subsequent publication of the abstracts presented in the CPDD meetings should be actively encouraged, as this maximizes the dissemination of the scientific research and therefore the investment.