Where can I publish my research?

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[ILikeDrugs]

Submit it to Cell or Nature. You can do it. Or choose one from this list. I'm not sure just how comprehensive it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_journals_in_biology

 

[ten pound]

Good luck!

 

[CoolWhipp]

Submit it to Cell or Nature. You can do it. Or choose one from this list. I'm not sure just how comprehensive it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_journals_in_biology

That was just mean. lol.

 

[ILikeDrugs]

lolwut? I was't trying to be mean. I actually don't know crap about the publishing process but I figured you might as well try for a reach journal.

 

[Catalystik]

Doesn't the Bio professor have an idea of where it might fit best?

 

[bobow98]

Sounds like a journal like "plant biology" would be very befitting.

 

[Danlee07]

It matters where it's published. Did you somehow conclude the pathogens to humans? If you relate anything to humans, then you might have a chance for a bigger journal. If not, then you need to look for the smaller straight-forward bio journals. The grad students/post-docs that I know have more knowledge of which journals to publish

 

[RogueUnicorn]

if your professor thinks it should be published in the ugrad research journal, it mostly likely means it's not of sufficient quality to be published in a peer-reviewed publication. sorry.

 

[Pons Asinorum]

if your professor thinks it should be published in the ugrad research journal, it mostly likely means it's not of sufficient quality to be published in a peer-reviewed publication. sorry.

This. I'm pretty sure that if your professor thought it had a chance of getting published, making his CV a little longer/newer and his job a little more secure, I'm pretty sure that bird would have left the nest already.

 

[IvyHopeful20]

With the help of my biology professor I did some research for one year on a plant pathogen and its susceptibility on different trees. Our findings were significant and no one has ever done this experiment, but its nothing really big or anything the like. We are looking into publishing our research in our school's undergrad journal, but I was shooting for something bigger. Any recommendations for journals that I can submit my paper to? Does it even matter where the research is published?

Ask your professor - if he doesn't think it's good enough, then it's probably not. Generally, professors don't pass up chances to publish papers 🙂. In fact, it's pretty much unheard of. In fact, if its not good enough but it's close, they'll tell you what needs to be done for it to be good enough to be peer-reviewed.

If he/she is aiming for undergrad research journal, then he thinks it still needs a bit of effort to get it into actual science journals. You may want to ask him what you can do to further the research so that it is good enough for peer-review journals.

In the end, the research is done under his auspices, so he'll have to sanction it and you won't really submit anything completely by yourself.


Don't fret - it's not a big deal. A year of research project where you did a lot of work is really good. Even for MD/PhDs at top schools, research publications in peer-reviewed journals is not a requirement. It's much more important to do good work, do it consistently and be able to explain it.

Of course, getting something novel published is a huge high....it's an accomplishment unto itself. It's so amazing to search your name on pubmed and have results come up, showing you've forever part of the small minority of people that have added a little bit to the body of human knowledge. I won't lie - I searched for myself every hour for like a week after it was published just to see my name come up (even as a third author - but I had worked a year and a half on it and I was really proud). That's a nice aim, and if you're really interested in that, you'll get there eventually 🙂.

 

[IvyHopeful20]

Submit it to Cell or Nature. You can do it.

That's mean 😛.



But, let me ask you: I'm an undergrad who worked on this project for four hours a week for six months.




I can haz Senior Authorship in Nature?

 

[RedRobin]

That's mean 😛.



But, let me ask you: I'm an undergrad who worked on this project for four hours a week for six months.




I can haz Senior Authorship in Nature?

By senior authorship, do you mean first authorship?
I worked 15hr/wk for a year including most weekends and wrote the methods, results, discussion section, and made all the figures. Then my boss gave me first authorship.

So yeah, you can be first author

 

[IvyHopeful20]

Senior I meant last. And I'm sure it wasn't nature 😛. If so, mucho kudos.


It's different depending on lab. For most labs what you did probably would not merit a first authorship unless you conceptualized the project yourself as well. But either way, that's an outstanding accomplishment.

I've worked four years in the lab at around 15 hours a week and I haven't earned a first authorship yet (and rightfully so I think). But I'm still a bit jealous 🙂.

 

[hopefuldoc97239]

With the help of my biology professor I did some research for one year on a plant pathogen and its susceptibility on different trees. Our findings were significant and no one has ever done this experiment, but its nothing really big or anything the like. We are looking into publishing our research in our school's undergrad journal, but I was shooting for something bigger. Any recommendations for journals that I can submit my paper to? Does it even matter where the research is published?

I have two general strategies for choosing which journal to publish in:

1. Look at which journals I've cited most in the article or that I've been reading lately
2. Browse ISI Journal Citation Reports for journals in my area that I might not have thought about in a while

Your school's library might have a subscription to ISI Journal Citation Reports online. Look at the impact factors of different journals. If your professor doesn't think the article can do much better than your undergraduate journal, find a non-student journal with a low impact factor and see if your article meets the journal's mission/target area. Journals with low impact factors are sometimes easier to get published in (although not always!!).

Edit: I have a theory that any article, no matter how bad, can be published if the author aims low enough. Sometimes some pretty crappy articles get published in top journals too!

 

[StudyShy]

I have contacted journals before by going on their web sites and e-mailing the designated contact person. I received prompt feedback from them about how to go about having an article published in their journal and so forth. Go ahead and pick a few to talk to. Good luck! 🙂

 

[The Stu]

PLoS Pathogens might be an option. Looking at impact factor should give you an idea of how significant your research needs to be for the journals. Maybe consult ISI journal research, many schools make this available through their library.

 

[ImagineThis]

I definitely agree with studyshy. Contacting journals is a quick and easy way to gauge whether or not they will be interested in your work and topic. However, your first resource should be to contact your professor. He/she should understand the quality of the work and whether or not it has a shot in a peer reviewed setting. If it does, then try to find a journal that is SPECIFIC for what you do. Generally, but not always, this will be an easier process (eg higher acceptance probability) than a more general journal that takes a broad scope of studies to a larger readership. Good Luck!

 

[loveoforganic]

lolwut? I was't trying to be mean. I actually don't know crap about the publishing process but I figured you might as well try for a reach journal.

There's reach and there's playing the lottery. Cell/nature with a undergrad journal level submission is less probable than the lottery, short of finding adulterous pictures of the editor (+1 nature pub for me! 😎)