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ArticleSurgery2018

The Use of Solicited Publishing by Academic Surgeons.

Vi Nguyen, Rebecca A Marmor, Sonia L Ramamoorthy, Todd W Costantini, Joel M Baumgartner, Jennifer Berumen, Garth R Jacobsen, Jason K Sicklick

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Article in Surgery, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Vi NguyenUniversity of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA.
Rebecca A MarmorUniversity of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Department of Surgery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Sonia L RamamoorthyUniversity of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Todd W CostantiniUniversity of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Burns and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Joel M BaumgartnerUniversity of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Jennifer BerumenUniversity of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Abdominal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Garth R JacobsenUniversity of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Center for the Future of Surgery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Jason K SicklickUniversity of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA. Electronic address: jsicklick@ucsd.edu.

Funding

VIRAL MALIGNANCYP30CA023100 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Jing Yang · 1985 to 2026
$124.9M
San Diego Biomedical Informatics Education & Research (SABER)T15LM011271 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI SHAMIM NEMATI · 2012 to 2026
$9.7M
Novel Allosteric Kinase Inhibitors Target Imatinib-Resistant GISTK08CA168999 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI SICKLICK, JASON KEITH · 2014 to 2018
$888k
Defining the Germline Genomic Landscape of a Novel GIST Multi-tumor SyndromeR21CA192072 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI SICKLICK, JASON KEITH · 2016 to 2017
$399k
NCI NIH HHS K08 CA168999NCI NIH HHS P30 CA023100NCI NIH HHS R21 CA192072NLM NIH HHS T15 LM011271
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundFew details are known about open-access surgery journals that solicit manuscripts via E-mail. The objectives of this cross-sectional study are to compare solicitant surgery journals with established journals and to characterize the academic credentials and reasons for publication of their authorship.

methodsWe identified publishers who contacted the senior author and compared their surgery journals with 10 top-tier surgical journals and open-access medical journals. We assessed the senior authorship of articles published January 2017-March 2017 and utilized a blinded survey to determine motivations for publication.

resultsThroughout a 6-week period, 110 E-mails were received from 29 publishers distributing 113 surgery journals. Compared with established journals, these journals offered lesser publication fees, but also had lesser PubMed indexing rates and impact factors (all P < .002). Professors, division chiefs, and department chairs were the senior authors of nearly half of US-published papers and spent ≈$83,000 to publish 117 articles in journals with a median impact factor of 0.12 and a 33% PubMed indexing rate. Survey responses revealed a dichotomy as 43% and 57% of authors published in these journals with and without knowledge of their solicitant nature, respectively. The most commonly reported reasons for submission included waived publication fees (50%), invitation (38%), and difficulty publishing elsewhere (12%).

conclusionDespite their sparse PubMed indexing and low impact factors, many senior academic faculty publish in solicitant surgery journals. This study highlights the importance for the academic surgical community to be cognizant of the quality of a journal when reviewing the literature for research and evidence-based practice.

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PMID29724409
PMCPMC6074048

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