<p>I am currently doing research with a doctor and theres a chance that the research might be published. I helped with data collection, typing, and stuff like that. If it is published, should my name be in it as well? There were two doctors and me, so I am wondering if they should include me? If they do, where would they put it and with what title?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Did you actually CONTRIBUTE any ideas or design any experiments, or did you just do gopher work? If you just did gopher work, you're probably not going to be in the publication.</p>
<p>wait...typing? What kind of data collection?</p>
<p>Probably in the middle. First-author means you did most of the work and last-author means you were the supervisor.</p>
<p>They may or may not include you depending on how nice they are. They probably should.</p>
<p>They might just throw you in the acknowledgments.</p>
<p>So if they were to put me in, they would put me in under acknowledgments?</p>
<p>If the majority of your contributions were physical (typing up data, reading numbers off beakers, building the experiments that the doctors came up with etc) Then you should be listed somewhere in the acknowledgments or something like like that. On the other hand if you made significant contributions to the intellectual component of the study then you should be listed as a contributor/ co-author of the piece.</p>
<p>does anyone have any links to published articles so I can see the format of the article and the places where they put peoples names</p>
<p>Published articles aren't really going to show format (everyone's is different), but here's the author list and the fine print about author contributions at the end of an article I was involved in:</p>
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[Mentor], [Me], [Person from other lab with whom we collaborated], [Supervisor #1], [Supervisor #2]
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Author contributions: [Mentor], [Supervisor #1], and [Supervisor #2] designed research; [Mentor] and [Me] performed research; [Mentor] contributed new reagents/analytical tools; [Mentor], [Person from other lab with whom we collaborated], and [Supervisor #2] analyzed data; and [Mentor], [Supervisor #1], and [Supervisor #2] wrote the paper.
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<p>They said they would put me under acknowledgments. My new question is that is there any value in being acknowledged/? If I apply to a BA/MD program, will they look at this as a positive? how bout for med school? or a residency for medicine?</p>
<p>Bump can someone answer that ^</p>
<p>bump help please</p>
<p>You can probably put it down under "Papers" when you're doing various applications later on. Maybe list it under "other info" in your application to various colleges.</p>
<p>But does it carry any weight to be "acknowledged" in a research paper when applying to college or med school or even for medical residency?</p>
<p>It carries some weight, but more importantly you did research, which you should either list under summer programs or ECs.</p>
<p>and you can get a letter of rec from the mentor</p>