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[deleted972488]

Yes

 

[Goro]

I've done research ever since high school (heading into senior year of college) and the sole proof I have to show for it is 6th author on a publication in Nature Medicine. Do you think this will be enough for schools that focus on research, i.e. Stanford?

Yes

 

[deleted972488]

Btw, Nature Medicine (which you say in your post) is not the same thing as Nature (which you put in the title). It is still good, though.

Make sure you are accurate on your application.

 

[deleted972488]

Yeah IF is a tad lower than that of Nature proper, no big deal though.

I am aware. I am also on a NM paper. Just saying. On your application don't put "Nature" when you mean "Nature Medicine" as you did in the title.

 

[AnMDtoB]

Btw, Nature Medicine (which you say in your post) is not the same thing as Nature (which you put in the title). It is still good, though.

Make sure you are accurate on your application.

Second - this is a *very* important distinction lol

 

[deleted972488]

Rest assured there's no possible way I'd ever confuse the two, but I'm curious: are the two that dissimilar?

Yes. And it would look slimy if you tried to sell yourself as having a Nature paper and then it turned out to be from one of the other journals in the publishing group.

 

[AnMDtoB]

Rest assured there's no possible way I'd ever confuse the two, but I'm curious: are the two that dissimilar?

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

 

[deleted972488]

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

Nature Medicine is a big deal, too. It just isn’t the same.

 

[deleted972488]

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.

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.

 

[UnlimitedTraction]

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

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.

 

[deleted972488]

an undergrad being published in NM, which is unheard of.

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]

Never heard of either journal. Don't bother if it's not in NEJM or JAMA.

Just kidding, it's impressive either way.

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

Never heard of either journal. Don't bother if it's not in NEJM or JAMA.

Just kidding, it's impressive either way.

Are you being facetious?

Rest assured there's no possible way I'd ever confuse the two, but I'm curious: are the two that dissimilar?

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.

 

[Moko]

Are you being facetious?

You quoted the answer 😉

 

[WedgeDawg]

The rest of your app is still more important

 

[Goro]

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

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.

 

[deleted972488]

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.