How to get published

[NCF145]

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Anyone know a good way to get published, if you have already done the research and written about it?

 

[dannylee718]

step 1: submit it to a journal.
step 2: revise
step 3: repeat step 2 one-million times
step 4: if rejected, submit to lower impact score journal
step 5: go to step 2

 

[Quix]

You need to provide more information - what do you mean "written about it"? Poster presentation? Term paper? Directed research paper?

If you are looking to transform a smaller project into a publication, you need to do some legwork.

(1) Find an appropriate forum. For a pre-med, JAMA, Lancet, and NEJM are probably well outside the realm of possibility. There are a number of lower-impact journals which may be appropriate. Do a database search to see what journals have published articles similar to your research.

(2) Find out what citation style they employ. Software like Citation will automatically format your references for you in the appropriate style.

(3) Find the submission guidelines. These will usually spell out word count and whom to contact. This can usually be found in the journal or on the journal's website.

(4) If you are an undergraduate, you might need to find a faculty member to give it some gravitas. Nature of the academic beast is that it is easier to get published if you are working with someone who has already been published or who can act as a mentor. No-name undergraduates have a much harder time than established authors.

This is all I can recommend with what little information you've provided. Good luck.

 

[Dedikated2liftn]

Moon the president.

 

[sheepunite]

you could always (advisedly) send out an exploratory inquiry to the journals you're interested in submitting to, to see if they'd be interested in what you have to say in the first place. it'll save a lot of wasted energy in the long run.

 

[NCF145]

You need to provide more information - what do you mean "written about it"? Poster presentation? Term paper? Directed research paper?

If you are looking to transform a smaller project into a publication, you need to do some legwork.

(1) Find an appropriate forum. For a pre-med, JAMA, Lancet, and NEJM are probably well outside the realm of possibility. There are a number of lower-impact journals which may be appropriate. Do a database search to see what journals have published articles similar to your research.

(2) Find out what citation style they employ. Software like Citation will automatically format your references for you in the appropriate style.

(3) Find the submission guidelines. These will usually spell out word count and whom to contact. This can usually be found in the journal or on the journal's website.

(4) If you are an undergraduate, you might need to find a faculty member to give it some gravitas. Nature of the academic beast is that it is easier to get published if you are working with someone who has already been published or who can act as a mentor. No-name undergraduates have a much harder time than established authors.

This is all I can recommend with what little information you've provided. Good luck.

It was my thesis that was advised by an M.D. who graduated and taught at a top 5 medical school.

 

[Quix]

That gives me a better idea. That being said, you will have to do revisions - while there are a few purely academic publishers who will print theses and dissertations, commercial publishers will not. If you send them an unrevised manuscript, you will get a form letter rejection.

Alternatively, if you are looking to simply build a CV, you may be able to translate your thesis into smaller articles (how long is your thesis?). The likelihood of getting it published part and parcel is slim, and many aspiring academics take a longer work and revise it into several shorter works.

At this point, the next series of questions are:

(1) What is your intended audience?
(2) Are you looking to publish it as one piece, or can it be broken up?
(3) Have you looked into submission guidelines for either publishing houses or journals?

EDIT:

Worthwhile reads:

From Dissertation to Book

and

Getting It Published

 

[Disinence2]

Just try to be as lucky as possable!

Keep switching the lab u work at! I have a friend who was able to get 2nd auther on a paper just by working in a lab that was already publishing something when he came in, and had a cool PI.

 

[foofish]

(4) If you are an undergraduate, you might need to find a faculty member to give it some gravitas. Nature of the academic beast is that it is easier to get published if you are working with someone who has already been published or who can act as a mentor. No-name undergraduates have a much harder time than established authors.

This is all I can recommend with what little information you've provided. Good luck.

Also, if you did the research in a professor's lab or as a spin-off of a PI's project, I believe you need their permission to publish (and you need permission to publish anyone else's work, even if credited, that is unpublished...as can happen when working with a lab group).

 

[YouNeverKnow22]

bump--where can I find journals a pre-med like me can submit a study too? Specifically for surgery? any input would be great

 

[YouNeverKnow22]

bump

 

[JJMrK]

bump--where can I find journals a pre-med like me can submit a study too? Specifically for surgery? any input would be great

Ask your PI.

 

[jtimmer1]

Work your ass off.

 

[Naijaba]

Work your ass off.

This. IMHO, tenured PIs know how to get published; it is unusual for them not to publish anything in 3+ years. So if you're in the same lab for that long, you stand a decent chance of being a co-author. Moreover, if you're working for a post-doc, he/she must know that publications are essential to his/her career, and that he/she only has ~5 years to publish.

 

[YouNeverKnow22]

This. IMHO, tenured PIs know how to get published; it is unusual for them not to publish anything in 3+ years. So if you're in the same lab for that long, you stand a decent chance of being a co-author. Moreover, if you're working for a post-doc, he/she must know that publications are essential to his/her career, and that he/she only has ~5 years to publish.

I'm not in a lab, I'm working with a surgeon and producing my own study....I was just wondering what were some lower-tier journals a pre-med could submit a paper too.

 

[ChicoMaki]

I'm not in a lab, I'm working with a surgeon and producing my own study....I was just wondering what were some lower-tier journals a pre-med could submit a paper too.

look up the impact factors for journals that cover surgery.

The advice I've been given is if you think the paper is good enough (and you have good PIs) submit to a well-known journal.You will get either: a) an acceptence to publish or b) excellent feedback and with this feedback, submit to a journal with a lower impact factor.

I'm in the process of writing and submitting now and that's the advice I'm following. (I also know this process is a b***h

Cheers and good luck

 

[Caprica6]

Don't work for a PI that is only interested in publishing in Nature of Science