bsm Posted September 15, 2009 Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 I think I have read most people on this forum say: NO, just get a publication in any journal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magiman Posted September 15, 2009 Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 what is the impact factor of a "good" journal anyways? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsm Posted September 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 well here's the wiki page for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor nature and science at the top with approx 50 combined score Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neuronix Posted September 15, 2009 Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 ok, well there are really two ways of looking at this: 1) For the sake of getting into med school, ANY publication in a peer reviewed journal is probably good enough...clearly though, having a first author paper in a kick ass journal like nature or science will have adcoms paying more attention to you, but for the most part I personally believe that if you published an article in a journal with a low-ish impact factor, it will still get you across some arbitrary line. Don't forget that many grad students don't even have that one publication. 2) if your career is in research, then by all means, aim for the stars, because that actually DOES matter (beyond being a major ego boost) that is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaveSense Posted September 15, 2009 Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 as a masters/phd student (maybe less so for phd depending on the lab), you are only really responsible/can take credit for the quality of your data and not really the science behind it. Alot of times if you look at the high impact factor journals, there are actually very few experiments (the exception is cell which publishes huge 10 figure monsters). Having a top paper really is a reflection of how good your PI is and not really of how smart you are. Once you get to the stage where you are directing the course of your own projects (PI and post-doc), impact factor becomes extremely important as its a very common (good or bad) criteria in faculty recruitment and promotion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsm Posted September 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 ok that makes sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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