Background: The scientist's important responsibility is to conduct scientific research. With this responsibility, publication of information obtained after a scientific study is completed is the last phase and the most important step of the scientific method. It is necessary to publish the information that is the result of the research, to mediate new information and to be useful to the world. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the journal publication rate of the papers presented at at Surgical Nursing Congresses in Turkey in the last 5 years (2012-2016) and to examine the variables related to these rates. Methods: The universe of this descriptive research constitutes research reports presented at Turkish Surgery and operating room nursing, surgical nursing, colorectal surgery nursing, Hepato-pancreato-bilier Surgical Nursing, Neurosurgery Nursing, Emergency Nursing and Cardiovascular Surgery Nursing Congresses organized between 2012 and 2016. The abstracts of the oral and poster presentations were examined and literature analysis was conducted. Results: Out of 1319 papers in 19 abstract books, 752 research papers were examined. 410 (54.5%) of the papers were presented as poster presentations. The majority of the assessed researches was descriptive type (77%). It was determined that the publication rates of the papers 11.9%, 13.5% in verbal reports, 10.7% in poster reports. Conclusion: Our study was the first to evaluate the publication rates of abstracts presented at the nursing congresses. Compared with studies done in different sciences (21-65,7%), this ratio is seen to be low