Response to Letters Regarding Article, “Conversion of Cardiovascular Conference Abstracts to Publications”

Winnik et al comment in a letter1 about our recent article on converting Scientific Session abstracts into peer-reviewed publications.2 Winnik et al conducted and reported a very comprehensive manual study on this same topic using data from ≈1000 randomly selected abstracts from the European Society of Cardiology Scientific Sessions.3 Their study was published when our manuscript was in the review process for Circulation . The results reported by Winnik et al were similar to ours, although in a smaller sample. We sincerely regret that we were not aware of and therefore did not acknowledge the fine work by Winnik et al. We find the results intriguing, particularly the link between abstract grading and subsequent publication likelihood. Evidence is accumulating for a suboptimal conversion of science from abstracts to …