The International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Brief Study Design and Objectives. A retrospective review was conducted to assess trends in research selected for podium presentation at ISSLS. Summary of Background Data. Abstracts of past papers presented to ISSLS provide quantified documentation of trends in research as well as insight into future directions. Methods. A systematic review of abstracts of research presented was performed. Graphical plots in each category of research and aspects of study quality were used to identify any trends. Univariate and multivariate logistical regression analyses were used to identify factors related to eventual publication. Results. A total of 43% of selected papers focused on the disc, representing the single largest area of research. There is a linear trend over time toward increased selection of basic science papers and decreased clinical papers. Experimental research design is becoming more frequently selected. In 1978, over 80% of papers were purely descriptive. By 2002, 42% of papers were descriptive, whereas 40% incorporated an experimental design. However, over the past decade, there has been a linear increase in the proportion of randomized controlled trials among clinical papers compared with basic science or biomechanical papers. A total of 54% of all abstracts presented recently went on to publication. Independent factors that were associated with significantly (P < 0.05) higher publication rates included use of blinded or independent observers (84.6%), experimental design (68.4%), basic science or biomechanical papers (62.3%), and statistically positive result (61.8%). Conclusion. Overall, the type of research selected for presentation at ISSLS has improved over the years in regards to greater use of experimental and randomized study design. The eventual publication rates compare favorably to other research societies. Factors related to publication have been identified and should be considered in future research. At the 30th year of ISSLS, a review of the research trends provides documentation of its history as well as future insight. Overall, the research selected for presentation at ISSLS has improved over the years in regards to greater use of experimental and randomized study design. The eventual publication rates compare favorably with those of other research societies. Factors related to publication are identified.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".