According to statistics recently compiled by Aldrich et al. (l), in 1989 and in 1990 a total of 406 individuals received their PhD degrees in areas represented by the American Physiological Society. The majority of these individuals have started their careers in the academic, federal, or private sectors and have assumed professional responsibilities that include the communication of their scien...

Publishing in scholarly peer reviewed journals usually entails long delays from submission to publication. In part this is due to the length of the peer review process and in part because of the dominating tradition of publication in issues, earlier a necessity of paper‐based publishing, which creates backlogs of manuscripts waiting in line. The delays slow the dissemination of scholarship and ...

background:  research projects are presented at the annual meetings of the american society for surgery of the hand (assh). it is unknown how many achieve publication in peer-reviewed journals. we sought to determine current rates of publication of podium and poster presentations.   methods:  all assh podium and poster presentations from 2000 to 2005 were reviewed, and an internet-based search ...