Published/Unpublished Research

[adrian710]

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What does becoming a published researcher mean? I did research through my university via a NAP program that tested kids aged 3 to 6 on their reading and comprehension and such. Do you individually become published or does the project become published and since you work/worked on it, you are published as well?

Thanks!

 

[AlteredScale]

What does becoming a published researcher mean? I did research through my university via a NAP program that tested kids aged 3 to 6 on their reading and comprehension and such. Do you individually become published or does the project become published and since you work/worked on it, you are published as well?

Thanks!

Published...for the most part, means that you are an author of a manuscript that was accepted and published to a peer-reviewed journal (Science, Nature, Cell, PNAS, NEJM, JAMA...etc etc).

That is the formal definition and to say you were published in any other context may come off odd.

I would suggest you state that you wrote a project report, presented a poster (include authorship) as supposed to "I published a paper through my NAP program".

Having a first/second author publication in a journal out of undergrad is not the norm. Having a first/second author pub in a high impact journal such as the ones listed above is an even rarer event.

 

[Grace184]

The head researcher/professor/PI generally submits a meaningful study to the appropriate journal for review and possible publishment.

If it were being submitted, you would have likely been notified. Also, depending how integral you were to the project places your name as the numbered author. A lot of times students may not be recognized, usually only in the Methods portion, for example "a group of undergraduate students performed reading comprehension tests..."

Edit: and yes, if you presented a poster, you can absolutely claim rights/authorship to the poster and explain the study. But you can't claim authorship on an unpublished study.

 

[ChrisMack390]

If you can type your own name into PubMed and find something you did, you have been published.

Otherwise, nope.

 

[davisdddddd]

Would list second author for a poster?

 

[becomingdoctor]

peer reviewed journal (nature, cell etc), abstract/talk/poster on a conference, poster day (your college), some schools even have undergraduate research journal, your master/PhD thesis (some states require thesis to be available online for access like california)
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