1. Characteristics and Fate of Pediatric Heart Disease Abstracts Presented at National Meetings 
Pushpa Shivaram, MD, Mallikarjuna Rettiganti, PhD, Paul M. Seib, MD, Punkaj Gupta, MBBS 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 107, Issue 1, Pages (January 2019)
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2. Fig 1
Proportion of abstracts that were later published as full manuscripts in a peer-reviewed journal. The abstracts are categorized by the type of presentation (oral or poster) at the 4 main national pediatric cardiac surgery and pediatric cardiology meetings. (AAP = American Academy of Pediatrics; AATS = American Association of Thoracic Surgeons; ACC = American College of Cardiology; STS = The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.)
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3. Fig 2
Mean number of citations for peer-reviewed publications generated from abstracts from 5 national meetings for pediatric cardiac surgery and pediatric cardiology. (AAP = American Academy of Pediatrics; AATS = American Association of Thoracic Surgeons; ACC = American College of Cardiology; AHA = American Heart Association; STS = The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.)
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4. Fig 3
Proportion of manuscripts, generated from abstracts, published in a peer-reviewed journal by country and U.S. region of origin of the first author.
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5. Fig 4
Probability of publication of meeting abstracts as full articles for each conference as a function of time to publication. (AAP = American Academy of Pediatrics; AATS = American Association of Thoracic Surgeons; ACC = American College of Cardiology; AHA = American Heart Association; STS = The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.)
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