Hello,
I'm an osteopathic medical student and planning on applying IM. During my gap year, I continued working in my undergrad PI's lab and we submitted an article for publication the summer I applied. We started with a journal that had a relatively high IF and was a bit of a reach, so it was subsequently rejected. I took some time off from lab because I was working and planned on starting revisions/follow-up experiments after I finished my med school applications that August. However, when I returned my PI told me that he had submitted our paper again to another journal. I had never heard of it before, and when I looked it up I found out that its parent company (heighten science) is on the list of predatory journals. It was accepted after "peer review" (their comments were clearly superficial and nowhere near as extensive as the previous journal's review process was). I was honestly pretty upset because this was a project that I had worked on for several years as part of my senior thesis and I felt like it deserved better than being submitted to a bogus journal, but as an undergrad I didn't really know how to approach bringing up my concerns to my PI (dumb excuse, I know).
I figured I would just leave it off my CV and residency applications since it's not indexed on pubmed, but I'm concerned that when I apply that a PD might find it somehow. Should I list it on there anyway and be prepared to answer any questions about it, or should I leave it off my application?
