What UG research fields publish more often?

[humbledoctor]

I researched in a biochemistry lab for 2 years in UG and never published. One problem was that it was hard to trouble shoot what hindered results because of the sensitivity of the virus I was crystallizing.

I am looking for a lab to work in again now, in my year off, and researching and publishing would help me in applying to medical school.

While I am enthusiastic about research I had a bad UG experience and want to find a good PI in my gap year. I know I can work hard on a project, but I would rather put my energy towards a project that has potential to publish. How do I determine what labs are likely to help me with this goal?What areas of research publish more often?
*I considered researching in:
-Nutrition
-Pharmacology labs
-Physiology
-Healthcare economics
-Clinical Research/ Psychology labs
-Neuroscience

*any other fields anyone would suggest?
(I am a biology major and nutrition minor)

Here are some of my questions also:
Does it necessarily help to find a PI who publishes often?
Does the PI have the final say on if a student's name is published?
Are students still published when they work on a graduate student's project?
Who decides if a student will be published or plays a significant enough role?

With the ultimate goal of being accepted into medical school and becoming a
physician, pre-med students like myself who take a break from school for the sake of research need to assure that they have concrete evidence attesting to both their level of commitment and direction during their gap year.

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[Life Eternal]

I would suggest you looking up some analytical chemistry labs, they publish like crazy and a lot of them will work with biomolecules.

Assistant professor will usually publish a lot more than full professor in the same field.

Clinical research will publish a lot.

Look for labs that are punching out a lot of papers with a lot of authors on the papers.

Does it necessarily help to find a PI who publishes often? Yes it helps

Does the PI have the final say on if a student's name is published? Yes, and if you have contributed to the project you should get published

Are students still published when they work on a graduate student's project? Yes, if you have contributed to their work.


Who decides if a student will be published or plays a significant enough role? The PI