What is more impressive for the top NSG residency?
Can you rank the following please in order?
first-author Journal of Neurosurgery (clinical study)
first-author JAMA Neurology (clinical study not relevant to neurosurgery field)
first-author Journal of Neuroscience (basic science not relevant to neurosurgery field)
Basic science in high impact factor journal then first-author in red or white journal
What even is this question
How is operative neurosurgery viewed compared to the red journal? It seems like the red journal transfers all technical papers to operative neurosurgery regardless of quality.
JAMA Neuro and JNeurosci are completely different journals.
Sadly, red and white journal have equal pull to both during rank meetings. The majority of faculty will know a handful of non-neurosurgery journals, if any at all.
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Let's answer the question and explain something here:
-Red Journal is Neurosurgery (CNS) and White Journal is JNS (AANS)
-From pure science standpoint, the higher the impact factor the higher quality
-The vast majority of neurosurgeons are unaware of most journals outside neurosurgery journals (which is expected like any speciality)
-If the question is which will help you more and although it's hard to give hard-cut answers because many other variables involved:
1) Having 10-15 publications in low tier journals...etc will help you to match (not necessary where)
2) One publication (preferably first author) in high tier journal (IF > 10 or so...some would claim even IF > 20) will help you to match in top 5 science-based research programs
-All programs love to hear "I am interested in research" but when it comes to ranking, programs with low academic ranking/productivity won't consider research/publications that high, if at all...
Is JNS spine considered the same tier as JNS?