Rethinking poster presentations at large‐scale scientific meetings – is it time for the format to evolve?
Abstract
Conferences have long been a major part of professional practice in almost all disciplines, allowing scientists to meet and exchange knowledge and views. As well as networking with colleagues, delegates want to access the information that is on offer at meetings, which now range from small, local affairs to vast international gatherings with big name speakers and busy programmes. In this Commentary, Rowe and Ilic argue that poster presentations – an established and popular medium of communication at conferences – are an outmoded and inefficient means of disseminating research. Is it time for the poster format to evolve? This article is accompanied by a podcast, listen now. Or listen in iTunes.
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Today, posters are the most frequent medium through which scientific knowledge is disseminated at conferences.
“Today, posters are the most frequent medium through which scientific knowledge is disseminated at conferences (Rowe, 2017;Rowe & Ilic, 2015).”
From Billboard-style posters preferred overall at two conferences, but should include more methods and limitations (2024) · cites this paper as Rowe & Ilic, 2015
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Oronje, B., Morrison, M., Suharlim, C., Folkman, K., Glaude-Hosh, A., & Jeisy-Scott, V. (2024) · doi:10.32388/p7n5bo.2 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
- Authors
- Rowe, N., & Ilic, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Lapland (FI)
- Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine Monash University Melbourne Australia
- ORCID
- Rowe, Nicholas
- Venue
- The FEBS Journal
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2015-08-08
- Volume
- 282
- Issue
- 19
- Pages
- 3661-3668
- ISSN
- 1742-464X (ISSN-L)
- 1742-4658
- OpenAlex
- W2110692539
- Cited by
- 36
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 20.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- FEBS Journal (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Academic Writing and Publishing
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Conferences and Exhibitions Management
- Keywords
- poster presentations, scientific conferences, conference format, research dissemination, science communication
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Computers, Congresses as Topic, Exhibitions as Topic, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Surveys and Questionnaires, Research, Societies, Scientific, Internet
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