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[brickcity]

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Hi all,

I was fortunate enough to have my research accepted for presentation at an international conference a few months ago. This abstract has now been published in a top journal (impact factor >15) and I am first-author. How do I list this on amcas? Can this be considered a publication?

Thank you

 

[efle]

It's not a publication in the same way a peer-reviewed paper in that journal is, but it's def worth listing, as an entry under Presentations. You can cite it as something like:

Author Name(s). Name of Presentation. Presented at: Name of Conference; Date of Conference; Location of Conference.

 

[aldol16]

What journal publishes only abstracts? In my field, a high-impact journal will publish articles or communications. Abstracts don't help the journal's impact factor because abstracts don't get cited (not in good academic work anyway).

 

[Lawpy]

Hi all,

I was fortunate enough to have my research accepted for presentation at an international conference a few months ago. This abstract has now been published in a top journal (impact factor >15) and I am first-author. How do I list this on amcas? Can this be considered a publication?

Thank you

What journal publishes only abstracts? In my field, a high-impact journal will publish articles or communications. Abstracts don't help the journal's impact factor because abstracts don't get cited (not in good academic work anyway).

From what i read, OP's journal publishes abstracts along with articles. I still wouldn't list the abstract as a publication because the entire thing wasn't peer reviewed and it's still a poster presented at a conference.

 

[mcloaf]

What journal publishes only abstracts? In my field, a high-impact journal will publish articles or communications. Abstracts don't help the journal's impact factor because abstracts don't get cited (not in good academic work anyway).

The journal in question is probably in some way affiliated with the conference and likely just publishes a supplementary issue once a year, which only contains the abstracts from the conference. In the subspecialty I do research in the main journal in the field publishes all of the abstracts accepted to the premier yearly specialty conference in a supplement, but they don't publish abstracts otherwise.

 

[aldol16]

From what i read, OP's journal publishes abstracts along with articles. I still wouldn't list the abstract as a publication because the entire thing wasn't peer reviewed and it's still a poster presented at a conference.

The journal in question is probably in some way affiliated with the conference and likely just publishes a supplementary issue once a year, which only contains the abstracts from the conference. In the subspecialty I do research in the main journal in the field publishes all of the abstracts accepted to the premier yearly specialty conference in a supplement, but they don't publish abstracts otherwise.

I think the latter is more likely, i.e. that the abstract was published in a proceeding of some conference like PNAS where the actual journal also publishes. In that case, it's meaningless to say that their abstract was published in a "good quality" journal because the impact factor of the journal has nothing to do with abstracts. It would be like saying "I went to Harvard" when you only took a couple classes at the Extension School.

 

[efle]

To add some dissenting opinion from elsewhere, Cat over in the AMCAS thread recommends that you do in fact list it as a publication, cited in the usual style as a paper.

If it will appear in the organization's paper journal and be pubmed searchable, it's a publication. Cite it like a publication. You know the month, can figure out the issue, and just don't know the page numbers yet, so for that put [in press].

Again I personally feel that the most accurate way to communicate what you did to a reader is to tell them you had a Presentation at X Annual Conference, but it looks like you actually could go ahead and list it like you had a first-author peer-reviewed paper in their journal instead...

 

[Catalystik]

To add some dissenting opinion from elsewhere, Cat over in the AMCAS thread recommends that you do in fact list it as a publication, cited in the usual style as a paper.

Catalystik said: ↑
If it will appear in the organization's paper journal and be pubmed searchable, it's a publication. Cite it like a publication. You know the month, can figure out the issue, and just don't know the page numbers yet, so for that put [in press].

For the citation of an abstract in a regular journal, be sure the word [Abstract] is in the citation, after the title.

Here's a sample citation for a published abstract in a conference proceeding (which I would not consider a "Publication"):

Li TW, Jones PA. Methylation changes in early embryonic genes in cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2006 Apr 1–5; Washington, DC. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; 2006. Abstract nr 30.

What can I list under "Peer Reviewed Journal Articles/Abstracts"?

• Articles that have been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
• Abstracts that have been published in a peer-reviewed journal. (This is rare, but generally some academic societies have their abstracts published in peer-reviewed journals. For example, abstracts from the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism World Congress, September 13-16, 2010 were published in a supplement to the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. This is not a peer-reviewed venue in the traditional sense, so Still Kickin was right to express some reservations about this in another thread. If you were submitting materials for tenure, then you would not list this in any 'peer-reviewed' section of your CV. However, for the purposes of a medical student applying for residency training using the CAF, it is generally considered acceptable to list in this section.)
• For completed articles published in non-peer-reviewed venues (e.g., newspaper op-eds, Harvard Business School case studies), see below.
• For abstracts that have been 'published' not in peer-reviewed journals (e.g. conference abstract CD-ROM, conference program book, etc.) see below.

Note: 'Peer review' generally means that your article has been subjected to scrutiny by one or more referees in your field. Generally this does not include book editors (and therefore books and book chapters should not be listed in this category), newspaper and magazine editors, etc.

What can I list under "Peer Reviewed Journal Articles/Abstracts (Other than Published)"?

• Articles that have been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
• Articles that have been conditionally accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
• For not-yet completed manuscripts that have been submitted for publication, not yet been submitted for publication but are intended for submission, etc., see below.

Other considerations

• If you gave a (poster or oral) presentation at a conference, and the abstract corresponding to your presentation was 'published' in a non-peer reviewed venue (such as the conference program book or CD-ROM), then see above: this would not count as a 'peer reviewed' publication, and you should not list in more than one category. (If this seems like a capricious function of the academic society's decision about whether or not to commission a journal supplement, it is. If you feel like this is 'unfair' because you don't get to list your work in the 'peer reviewed journal abstracts' section of the CAF, then get over it. Life is unfair.)

Note the point that we are talking about a med school application here, not a publication list for a tenure application.