Published abstract from poster=publication?

[MomJeansandDadJorts]

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I have my name on on abstract that was presented as a poster at a national meeting. When I was looking up the title of the poster (referenced in my AMCAS primary already), it shows the abstract has been published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine which is a peer reviewed journal. It is not able to be found in PubMed but is searchable on google scholars and the JNM site and I am able to cite the date of the journal entry and everything. I am wondering if this is actually considered a publication since it seems to just be a published abstract. Does anybody have any idea?

 

[Catalystik]

I have my name on on abstract that was presented as a poster at a national meeting. When I was looking up the title of the poster (referenced in my AMCAS primary already), it shows the abstract has been published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine which is a peer reviewed journal. It is not able to be found in PubMed but is searchable on google scholars and the JNM site and I am able to cite the date of the journal entry and everything. I am wondering if this is actually considered a publication since it seems to just be a published abstract. Does anybody have any idea?

You will find there are varying opinions about this. If it had a PMID#, I'd have said yes, it is a publication for application purposes. Is it in JNM "ahead of print", but will eventually appear in a paper journal? Maybe it just hasn't been indexed yet.

After thought, you might find that it has been indexed in PubMed after all, even though it's not reflected on the JNM website : Go to the pubmed site and put the title of your abstract in the Search bar: Home - PubMed - NCBI

 

[Med Ed]

I have my name on on abstract that was presented as a poster at a national meeting. When I was looking up the title of the poster (referenced in my AMCAS primary already), it shows the abstract has been published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine which is a peer reviewed journal. It is not able to be found in PubMed but is searchable on google scholars and the JNM site and I am able to cite the date of the journal entry and everything. I am wondering if this is actually considered a publication since it seems to just be a published abstract. Does anybody have any idea?

JNM published meeting abstracts in annual supplement issues. They don't go through the regular peer-review process. While there is no malicious intent, in my opinion dressing this up to look like a normal peer-reviewed article would be somewhat disingenuous. I would clearly label it an abstract, cite where it was presented, and then note where in the JNM it can be found.

 

[MomJeansandDadJorts]

JNM published meeting abstracts in annual supplement issues. They don't go through the regular peer-review process. While there is no malicious intent, in my opinion dressing this up to look like a normal peer-reviewed article would be somewhat disingenuous. I would clearly label it an abstract, cite where it was presented, and then note where in the JNM it can be found.

OK thats what I did in my primary but didnt see about the JNM until yesterday. I just talked to one of th PhDs here and she said the same thing about how they just publish the abstracts from the meeting and I would basically be telling them about something I already told them about. I wanted some clarification so I wasnt misrepresenting anything and possibly giving them wrong information (because that would reflect poorly on myself). Thanks for the insight!

 

[efle]

You just have to be careful how you cite it, e.g. include Abstract in there and/or show the pagination is Suppl. XXX - XXX. Definitely misleading to pretend a poster/abstract is a fully peer reviewed paper just because they publish a supplement for their conference.

For example:

Fake Name, Example Name, and John Doe. The Effect of This Variable on That variable: Analysis From a Big Tertiary Center. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 2016, Vol. 6, Issue 6, Abstract 69.