#i haven't put an option for first publishing as a postdoc just bc i didn't think you could get postdocs without having published something

[trans-cuchulainn]

* using "accepted for publication" as the metric because I realise things sometimes take years to actually come out. in this case i mean peer-reviewed academic publications (but postgrad journals etc count, it doesn't have to be a fancy prestigious thing, i just mean as opposed to a 500-word column in your uni's newspaper or something)

i guess if you're in the kind of field where papers have many authors and you get to be in the list because you're a member of that lab, even if you didn't write the paper, that also counts? i don't really know how stem publications work tho. i am in a field where most articles are single author, sometimes two authors but rarely more

honestly this is just curiosity on my part. it's pretty limited data since i won't know what fields people are in (or if you sought publication sooner but it didn't work out) but i just wanna get a sense of what's typical

#academia #gradblr #studyblr #i haven't put an option for first publishing as a postdoc just bc i didn't think you could get postdocs without having published something #but maybe that was an error #anyway this is purely curiosity on my part #i have friends who had stuff accepted as MA students and others who didn't publish until final year PhD #i guess I'm just curious #also i wanted to leave gaps for those who didn't go straight through #i know a number of people who took a few years after undergrad or between MA and PhD #but kept doing independent research #and some who haven't returned yet but i guess might #not sure where that falls