MaybeMed Posted August 25, 2011 Report Share Posted August 25, 2011 Hey everyone, i was just wondering whether the order your name appears on a paper matters in terms of med school app. If you are say 4th or 5th author as opposed to 2nd, would that affect how much the publication is worth on your app? Or is the important fact just that you have your name on a published paper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
<abstract> Posted August 25, 2011 Report Share Posted August 25, 2011 Hey everyone, i was just wondering whether the order your name appears on a paper matters in terms of med school app. If you are say 4th or 5th author as opposed to 2nd, would that affect how much the publication is worth on your app? Or is the important fact just that you have your name on a published paper? In general terms, the order of authorship corresponds with the amount of work contributed to the research paper. The primary author did the majority of the work, while the secondary and tertiary author had significant input, and lower ordered authors contributed less. So I guess the rest is self explanitory in terms of a med app. In any case an authorship is better than nothing.. but certainly not make of break in any circumstance as research is funny that way.. Good luck. ABS:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notmeadoc Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 Often the 5th or 6th author are coffee getters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shikimate Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 Often the 5th or 6th author are coffee getters. You would be lucky to see the last author show up in the lab once a month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meds400 Posted August 27, 2011 Report Share Posted August 27, 2011 Actually, the order of importance goes 1st author > LAST author >> 2nd author >>> 3rd author etc....you do not want to be buried in the middle of an author list with 3 or more people (well - if you are a grad student that is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emma15 Posted August 27, 2011 Report Share Posted August 27, 2011 Depends on the scope of the paper. We published a paper with primate data and that paper had 47 authors. We ALL contributed a lot and there was no "coffee getting!" That's what the acknowledgement section in the paper is for!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubcMDhopeful Posted August 27, 2011 Report Share Posted August 27, 2011 Often the last person is the supervisor.... so I would not say that being last is always associated with being a "coffe getter" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted August 27, 2011 Report Share Posted August 27, 2011 Often the last person is the supervisor.... so I would not say that being last is always associated with being a "coffe getter" different journals have different policies on Author ordering as I understand it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Posted August 27, 2011 Report Share Posted August 27, 2011 Depends on the scope of the paper. We published a paper with primate data and that paper had 47 authors. We ALL contributed a lot and there was no "coffee getting!" That's what the acknowledgement section in the paper is for!! Holy ****!!! That's the highest number I've seen to date Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apixaban85 Posted August 27, 2011 Report Share Posted August 27, 2011 Holy ****!!! That's the highest number I've seen to date http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v412/n6846/extref/412565aa.html Boom! About 2900 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerena Posted August 27, 2011 Report Share Posted August 27, 2011 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v412/n6846/extref/412565aa.html Boom! About 2900 ZOMG!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Posted August 27, 2011 Report Share Posted August 27, 2011 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v412/n6846/extref/412565aa.html Boom! About 2900 Wow I knew it was big but- almost 3K authors? O.O" !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubcMDhopeful Posted August 28, 2011 Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v412/n6846/extref/412565aa.html Boom! About 2900 AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I though that paper had 300.... Imagine if you could not use et al. when citing that lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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