Abstract
Despite the increase in popularity of undergraduate research, many students are either unaware or unable to publish their work formally, and therefore miss a key component of the research process. Undergraduate researchers often only spend 3 to 4 months on a research project and rarely have enough and/or sufficiently impactful data to publish their work in a professional-level journal. While a number of undergraduate research journals aim to provide students with the opportunity to receive peer-reviewed feedback and publish, the vast majority of these publications are lack-ing for a myriad of reasons. This editorial serves to introduce the Undergraduate Research in Natural and Clinical Sci-ence and Technology (URNCST) Journal, a new and innovative publication that remedies what is lacking in most un-dergraduate research journals that exist today. The URNCST Journal possesses 8 key characteristics making it the ide-al research journal for undergraduate students to publish their work: open-access; peer-reviewed; rapid turnaround time; international; broad and multidisciplinary; indexed; innovative; and social media promoted. It is our hope that graduate students and principal investigators will also benefit from the URNCST Journal through serving as an editori-al board member and/or peer-reviewer, and helping to open up discussions about the importance of the peer-review and publication process in research with undergraduate mentees. The journal is currently making its first call for sub-missions as of August 2017 and looks forward to showcasing the best contributions earnest undergraduate researchers have to offer.
Highlights
What is Undergraduate Research? The popularization of undergraduate research can be traced back to the establishment of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program in 1969 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [1]
While it is very difficult to estimate how many undergraduate researchers successfully publish their findings each year, I believe that most research mentors and undergraduate researchers alike would agree that it is the exception, as opposed to the norm, for an undergraduate student to publish their work in even an undergraduate-level research journal, let alone a professional-level one
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH IN NATURAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (URNCST) JOURNAL Read more URNCST Journal articles and submit your own today at: https://www.urncst.com that can be attributed to the failure of an undergraduate researcher to publish their work, even if they are aware of research journals and desire to publish in them
Summary
While it is completely understandable that an undergraduate researcher may not be able to achieve the necessary data required to publish their work in a professional-level journal until they are at least a graduate student, I would argue that it is invaluable for them to have an appropriate platform to experience this final stage of the research process.
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