1. Science in surgical publishing – insights from a decade of Scientific Surgery

2. Background

5. Scientific Surgery Established 1998 Only online archive of surgical trials Updated to include BJS 2007 to 2009

6. Aim To determine whether randomised clinical trials have increased as a proportion of original articles in the surgical literature

7. Methods Scientific Surgery Journal contents cross-referenced Citation count determined from Google Scholar Five major general surgical journals

8. Scientific Surgery Contents

9. RCTs in leading surgical journals

10. P = 0.002

11. RCTs: proportion of original articles

12. RCTs as proportion of original articles P<0.001

13. Median citations per RCT

14. P=0.023 P=0.007

15. Comparison with medical journals

16. Comment Surgical publication pattern has changed Now comparable with specialist medical journals BJS publication pattern has significantly changed