u/Pristine_Rooster_927

Over the past year, I've worked at a very productive clinical lab that is quite liberal with authorship (any contribution gets you authorship) and has a surplus of projects, allowing undergrads to even lead some projects. I've been able to get 2 first-author papers and ~10 co-author papers, all published at well-respected journals, definitely not predatory.

I also have a middle-author paper under a biology wet-lab.

I understand the cycle of clinical papers is much shorter than wet-lab papers and therefore are less impactful to adcoms. I was wondering whether the impact of having getting publications ever tapers off in the eyes of the admissions committee.

I worked at a lab for ~2 years in high school, resulting in a poster presentation at a national conference my senior year. I presented the same project my freshman year of college, and I stopped working at the lab the same month I started college. Do you think I can include this experience/presentations on my medical school app?