Do posters count as publication?

[da5id]

^What the title says.

[surferdoc]

I counted my posters last year. I might suggest making sure that the abstract was published in the conference proceedings, just to cover your back.

[da5id]

How do I find out?

[surferdoc]

There are a couple of ways.

 

You can google your name and key word or two from the title of the abstract/poster.

 

The confernce was likely linked to a journal or professional body that you could look up online. They usuallly will have a list of conferences they organize . From my experience, there will be a document there where you find the abstracts.

 

OR, ask your supervisor (they'd probably be a good choice for verifier anyway so you would have to run by them).

 

Hope that helps. Good luck with the writing.

[hopeful_med]

So when you present a poster, and the abstract was published in the conference, that is just one research activity right?

[rask]

Just as an FYI...in most fields, posters are NOT considered to be a publication. Even if the conference abstracts are published, sometimes in a special issue of a journal (again, this may be field dependent). Posters and abstracts generally do not go through a peer-review process and so would not be considered publications the same way that a journal article would.

[trojjanhorse]

Just as an FYI...in most fields, posters are NOT considered to be a publication. Even if the conference abstracts are published, sometimes in a special issue of a journal (again, this may be field dependent). Posters and abstracts generally do not go through a peer-review process and so would not be considered publications the same way that a journal article would.

 

I wouldn't consider posters as publications. But, if you're not going to mention your poster anywhere else in the application, then why not I suppose.

[soporific]

If it is a poster at an international conference, where your abstract is peer reviewed and subsequently published in the supplements of a prestigious journal, then I would consider it a publication.

 

If not, then just mention it when describing your research experience.

[soporific]

So when you present a poster, and the abstract was published in the conference, that is just one research activity right?

 

Yes. 10char

[rmorelan]

They some value as research regardless though - even CARMS has a section for them.

[Renoir]

They some value as research regardless though - even CARMS has a section for them.

 

So what you're recommending is to put them under the publications section anyways? According to the U of C blog, they are specifically not publications unless published as proceedings in the society's journal.