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vanillamilkshake said:
Rest assured there's no possible way I'd ever confuse the two, but I'm curious: are the two that dissimilar?
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My reaction when I thought you had a pub in nature: holy @%# I need to read this guy's paper

My reaction when I realized the truth: oh, cool - good for them

I can't be the only one on this thread that had literally never heard of "Nature Medicine" but knew that "Nature" is a very big deal
 
AnMDtoB said:
My reaction when I thought you had a pub in nature: holy @%# I need to read this guy's paper

My reaction when I realized the truth: oh, cool - good for them

I can't be the only one on this thread that had literally never heard of "Nature Medicine" but knew that "Nature" is a very big deal
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Nature Medicine is a big deal, too. It just isn’t the same.
 
vanillamilkshake said:
I'm more than happy with a publication a subjournal of Nature. I didn't even know it was inferior to Nature proper, but I'm still grateful since an IF of >30 is more than most undergrads can hope for.
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It's not even necessarily inferior. Sometimes better science gets published in journals with lower impact factor. To get published in a journal like Nature, the science has to be flashy, but not necessarily well designed. And there's a lot of politics involved.
 
AnMDtoB said:
My reaction when I thought you had a pub in nature: holy @%# I need to read this guy's paper

My reaction when I realized the truth: oh, cool - good for them

I can't be the only one on this thread that had literally never heard of "Nature Medicine" but knew that "Nature" is a very big deal
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lol what is the point of this post? more of a reflection on you not knowing that Nature Med is a stellar journal than Nature Medicine being somehow inferior to Nature, especially in terms of an undergrad being published in NM, which is unheard of.
 
UnlimitedTraction said:
an undergrad being published in NM, which is unheard of.
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I wouldn't say it's unheard of, especially since they aren't the first author. Not trying to downplay OP's achievement. It's great that they had a long-term research commitment and they got something out of it. But my lab frequently publishes in journals like NM and each paper almost always has at least one undergraduate co-author.
 
Moko said:
Never heard of either journal. Don't bother if it's not in NEJM or JAMA.

Just kidding, it's impressive either way.
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Are you being facetious?

vanillamilkshake said:
Rest assured there's no possible way I'd ever confuse the two, but I'm curious: are the two that dissimilar?
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Well yeah.... It's like saying you published in JAMA when you actually published in JAMA Psych. I mean it's still great but no it doesn't carry quite the same wow factor.
 
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AnMDtoB said:
My reaction when I thought you had a pub in nature: holy @%# I need to read this guy's paper

My reaction when I realized the truth: oh, cool - good for them

I can't be the only one on this thread that had literally never heard of "Nature Medicine" but knew that "Nature" is a very big deal
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Anything in the Nature family IS a big deal, as are the Son of Cell family. I'd kill for a pub in Nature Cell Biology.
 
Just to be clear, my point was not that Nature Medicine is not good enough.

My point was that one should not claim to have one thing when they actually have another.
 
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