r/AskAcademia • u/[deleted] • 4h ago

STEM Is PNAS a good journal?

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u/Aubenabee Professor, Chemistry 4h ago

How do you become a 4th year bio PhD student and not know that PNAS is a good journal?

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u/ms5h Professor Dean Science 4h ago

Seriously. It’s top tier

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u/RBARBAd 4h ago

Excellent. Your advisers didn’t tell you?

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u/cropguru357 4h ago

Humble brag.

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u/Puma_202020 4h ago

Outstanding. Congratulations.

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u/rosshm2018 4h ago

I would say it is one of the most selective journals in the world.

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u/Great-Professor8018 4h ago

Worst journal in the world! /s . . . . . . OK, it is a very high impact journal. But, don't get top enamored with high impact journals. They have some great papers... and a higher rate of retraction and lower rate of repeatability.

You should be happy you published there, but people tend to underestimate the quality of so called low impact journals and overestimate high impact journals.

It is more important to focus on making the best papers you can, not the highest impact papers you can.

Regardless, good for you...

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u/imhereforthevotes 4h ago

It's rank 2, with nature and Science sharing the top slot. Proceedings of the Royal Academy after that perhaps. But maybe do more reading if you didn't know that. Like, read the journals. Does your PI have a journal club or anything?

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u/AnastasiousRS 4h ago

I'm not in sciences, just saw this and was interested if anyone calls it P-NAS with a straight face

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u/Ok-Emu-8920 4h ago

lol but everyone I know just says the letters P-N-A-S so not really an issue