Rejected publication

[swisschard]

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I was listed as a second author on a publication that was recently rejected. Any idea how I should list this on my app, if at all? I figured I should just not mention it.

Thanks,
-Wes

 

[beary]

Is your lab planning on re-submitting the manuscript somewhere else? If so, you could mention that you are an author on a manuscript in preparation, or submitted. Or you could not mention it - I think either way would be fine.

 

[_ian]

It's obviously dumb to put a rejected pub on your application, and I think that putting a "submitted" pub is just as bad. I could fire off a photocopy of my butt to Nature and legitimately call it a submitted publication (with me as a first author, no less!)

Wait until it's published or you just look like a tool trying too hard to impress.

 

[xanthines]

I'm gonna have to disagree with ya on that one.

It's perfectly fine to put submitted pubs on your app since it's pretty uncommon for incoming students to have published papers. They know it takes a long time to go through the submission process, much less to do the actual work that generated the paper in the first place. Just make sure you know that paper inside and out.

-X

It's obviously dumb to put a rejected pub on your application, and I think that putting a "submitted" pub is just as bad. I could fire off a photocopy of my butt to Nature and legitimately call it a submitted publication (with me as a first author, no less!)

Wait until it's published or you just look like a tool trying too hard to impress.

 

[Scottish Chap]

I was listed as a second author on a publication that was recently rejected. Any idea how I should list this on my app, if at all? I figured I should just not mention it.

Thanks,
-Wes

The term you are looking for is "manuscript in preparation" - assumning you will sumbit it somewhere else. Papers get rejected all the time from one place and published elsewhere. It's no big deal.