<p>I wanted to get everybody's opinion on a matter involving what publications to include in the research summary. I have worked in a number of labs where I have contributed to publications in a meaningful way but was only mentioned in the acknowledgments or not at all. Do people think that these papers should be cited in my research experience since I did contribute to them (the text would make it clear what aspect of the paper I did)? Or would it appear to be disingenuous to include papers that lack my name as an author?</p>
<p>I don't know really know the answer, but I have a question to add.</p>
<p>Would you include anything about being listed as an author for an abstract that was perhaps used for a conference or something like that?</p>
<p>I had planned on using all of my abstracts, poster sessions, conferences etc in my research summary. I feel that these are relevant reflections of research experience and besides, they would be included on a CV.</p>
<p>I wouldn't list places where you were cited as an acknowledgment. Papers don't matter all that much to grad school acceptances, and on interviews you can talk about the contributions that you made to the project. In the research summary I would talk about the research (briefly), but it seems weird to include acknowledgments on a publication list.</p>
<p>Regardless of whether the paper itself is cited, the research experience section is meant to include the research that you have done, even if it did not culminate in a publication. The research as well as the place that it was done will be included, I was just wondering if the publication in which the results were published should be included.</p>
<p>I wouldn't put the publications in the list of publications. </p>
<p>It wouldn't be dishonest to say in your SOP, "This work, to which I contributed in X way, was published in X journal (Firstauthor et al., X journal 2008)." But I don't know that I think that's actually worth the space in the SOP, unless the work was published in Cell/Nature/Science. I would describe the project and your contribution without mentioning the publication, personally.</p>
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Would you include anything about being listed as an author for an abstract that was perhaps used for a conference or something like that?
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I would, and I did! :)</p>