In secondaries, should I/how do I say that a manuscript has been submitted to a journal?

[brobamacare]

Hi everyone! So I'm pre-writing secondaries. Should I mention that I'm third author on a manuscript that has been submitted to a journal? Or do they only care about papers that have already been published?

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[Goro]

I think it's OK to mention, but don't expect any points for it. Pubs are what counts, not submissions

 

[Catalystik]

So I'm pre-writing secondaries. Should I mention that I'm third author on a manuscript that has been submitted to a journal? Or do they only care about papers that have already been published?

Keep in mind that sometimes it takes several submissions to find a journal that will accept your manuscript. Sometimes a journal requires major revisions. Sometimes the PI decides not to invest the time it would take to do those revisions. Sometimes no one wants to publish it. That's why only accepted papers are those that adcomms "care about."

 

[futureapppsy2]

Keep in mind that sometimes it takes several submissions to find a journal that will accept your manuscript. Sometimes a journal requires major revisions. Sometimes the PI decides not to invest the time it would take to do those revisions. Sometimes no one wants to publish it. That's why only accepted papers are those that adcomms "care about."

This, so much. The sheer naïveté of students thinking that every manuscript they submit will surely and quickly be published gets me.

 

[brobamacare]

This, so much. The sheer naïveté of students thinking that every manuscript they submit will surely and quickly be published gets me.

Thank you for your input. Yes, this was another reason that I was not sure to include the manuscript submission, since my PI did have to make some big revisions in order for our first paper to be accepted to a journal.