Have I been making a mistake on my applications?

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Hey guys,

I know I can't go back and change it, but I am going crazy thinking a minor mistake on my applications.

I am a co-author of a publication in PNAS and in my primary application for one of my activity titles I wrote: "Co-author in PNAS journal publication"; Similarly, in one of my secondaries I wrote "I was an author in a PNAS journal"

One of my friends told me today that I should have just referred to it as "PNAS" and not "PNAS journal".

Do you guys think I have been making a mistake and if so do you think that it is a big deal?

 

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Even if they do notice it, they’ll be too impressed that you’re a PNAS author to even care.

 

[907914]

Hey guys,

I know I can't go back and change it, but I am going crazy thinking a minor mistake on my applications.

I am a co-author of a publication in PNAS and in my primary application for one of my activity titles I wrote: "Co-author in PNAS journal publication"; Similarly, in one of my secondaries I wrote "I was an author in a PNAS journal"

One of my friends told me today that I should have just referred to it as "PNAS" and not "PNAS journal".

Do you guys think I have been making a mistake and if so do you think that it is a big deal?

It is in fact just called PNAS, however I do not believe this will have a large negative effect on your application(s). It is kind of like calling it “The ATM Machine,” that is incorrect, but no one really questions it or cares.

 

[Moko]

One of my friends told me today that I should have just referred to it as "PNAS" and not "PNAS journal". Do you guys think I have been making a mistake and if so do you think that it is a big deal?

You're fine.

Even if they do notice it, they’ll be too impressed that you’re a PNAS author to even care.

Incorrect. Anything with an impact factor less than 10 is not even worth mentioning. 9.6 doesn't cut it.

 

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Incorrect. Anything with an impact factor less than 10 is not even worth mentioning. 9.6 doesn't cut it.

I feel like this is humor. Only 232 journals of the 12298 journals tracked have greater than a 10 and the top 5% of journals are 6+...

 

[Moko]

I feel like this is humor. Only 232 journals of the 12298 journals tracked have greater than a 10 and the top 5% of journals are 6+...

You're a master of the obvious 😀

 

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You're a master of the obvious 😀

Had to Google journal impact factors and read the wiki page for it to know what it was. I know there are a lot of sketchy journals out there lol Was mostly confirming my suspicions after the goog.

 

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Even if they do notice it, they’ll be too impressed that you’re a PNAS author to even care.

I hope so. Just kind of panicking over some small details I guess maybe unnecessarily