Emojis4Life Posted May 22, 2015 Report Share Posted May 22, 2015 Is a paper in a "high-level" (if you can call it that) student journal better than a paper in a low impact journal? Are they about the same? Or does the fact that you're publishing in a student journal or low impact journal negate the "wow" factor of the publication? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panacea Posted May 22, 2015 Report Share Posted May 22, 2015 I would argue that publishing in a low impact journal is better than publishing in a student journal. A student journal technically has an impact factor of 0 so it doesn't really compare to a legitimate peer-reviewed journal and is not put through the same rigorous reviewing standards. Additionally, just because a journal is a low impact journal doesn't mean it's a poor journal. A lot of clinical/surgical journals have low impact factors. However, publishing in a student journal is still better than nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oshaku Posted May 22, 2015 Report Share Posted May 22, 2015 Depends on the student journal! Publishing in Harvard law journal would probably be more impressive than some low impact journal that nobody's heard of. Any publication is good. I would be weary of predatory journals though. Your supervisor should know what the "good" journals to publish in are. You can also publish pretty much the same thing in a student journal as well as a "real" journal. Because chances are nobody outside of your school gets the student journal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emojis4Life Posted May 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2015 Thanks for the comments! @ Panacea: Yes, that's what I thought. @ Oshaku: It's a Yale UG J. It's actually pretty tough to publish in Harvard/Yale Law Journals (from what I've heard)! I don't think this particular journal has the same "prestige" but it does have Yale in its name Is it wrong to include the same paper in your application twice even if you published in a student journal and a "real" journal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oshaku Posted May 22, 2015 Report Share Posted May 22, 2015 Thanks for the comments! @ Panacea: Yes, that's what I thought. @ Oshaku: It's a Yale UG J. It's actually pretty tough to publish in Harvard/Yale Law Journals (from what I've heard)! I don't think this particular journal has the same "prestige" but it does have Yale in its name Is it wrong to include the same paper in your application twice even if you published in a student journal and a "real" journal? You shouldn't be publishing word-for-word in those two journals. They can be very very similar, but not word-for-word. I guess what I mean by publishing the same thing is that they can have say up to 90% identical content, or just differ by one figure/paragraph. Since it's a paper in the student journal and a paper in a "real" journal, it is technically two papers, so you can include as two papers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emojis4Life Posted May 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2015 Oh that makes sense. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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