<p>Hi, I had a question regarding publication of scientific material.</p>
<p>I am listed as a second author on an abstract that’s currently being submitted to a scientific journal. I am sort of unclear as to the process of publication though. I was wondering if being listed as an author of an abstract is something I could put on a med school application, or if it matters at all. Or, does it not matter until a full paper is published with my name on it?</p>
<p>Thanks so much for your help!</p>
<p>1.) You can list it.
2.) It matters some.</p>
<p>Hi Emrald,</p>
<p>Of course it matters. Abstracts are prelude to publications, usually written with a draft report, generally somewhat more hastily prepared to capture the main kernels of information within the submission timelines of the journal/or a Scientific meeting. Note that I said publications. </p>
<p>It is almost always followed with one or more publication(s) after you have had the luxury of time to dissect the data and do elegant statistical analysis which go in the main paper. Some data yield more papers since spending more time over the results and comparing it to what’s currently known in literature in that area, will likely allow you more information you can publish. </p>
<p>It absolutely matters to researchers. Abstracts are what most researchers peruse due to their busy schedules…keep up to date by reading current contents and by surfing PubMed.</p>
<p>I would also advice you to present a poster at a Scientific meeting. This allows you to print your poster on a nice legal size paper in color and hand it in wherever you are interviewed in addition to listing it on your resume.</p>
<p>Presenting posters at Sci meetings will add more facets to your experience. It’s a great experience which is crucial to a budding researcher’s growth.</p>
<p>actually, i was mistaken. the abstract is being submitted to a conference, not being published. i guess there’s a big difference, huh?</p>
<p>lol, this has nothing to do w/ the topic…but didn’t want to create a new thread for a simple question of curiosity lol
what’s the difference between stipend and having a steady salary for researching?</p>
<p>Hi Emrald,</p>
<p>It still gets published in the Conference list of abstracts. Each conf puts out their own handbook of abstracts presented at their annual conf. So, it is considered published.</p>
<p>You can list it in your cv. You gain a great deal from presenting the abstract at the conf. though. So, I would advice you to attend the conf if possible, get involved with poster prep, poster presentation if your PI allows you (depending on your involvement/contribution to achieving these results). </p>
<p>The printed color posters come very handy not just at the poster presentation but also for your interviews.</p>
<p>By the way, the annual handbook of abstracts gets published just before the conf. Sometimes may be given to you either via mail or in your handbag when you attend the conf.</p>
<p>darkhope,</p>
<p>Postdocs and fellows get paid full time for their research involvement together with benefits. Stipends given to RAs (research assistants), tend to be somewhat lower than a full time salary but have other perks such as in-state tuition for OOS student.</p>
<p>I have heard though that stipends given to PhD students these days in NYMC are as high as $20-25000/year…+ in-state tuition rate, which is a huge change from my Pleistocene years in the South.</p>
<p>thanks so much for your help, pharmagal.
This research is actually from a summer internship, so I already made and presented a poster for the internship’s poster conference on this topic. i doubt i’d be able to attend the conference, but I am hoping to return to the lab next summer, so maybe i’d get to help further this research!</p>