When did you publish your first paper Veeky Forums...

When did you publish your first paper Veeky Forums? My professors told me I'm a certified brainlet if I don't have one by the time I graduate.

if you haven't published a first-author paper by 5th grade you might as well drop out and flip burgers (if you even pass the interview)

fuck

Junior year of undergrad.

lots of inter-individual and field-specific differences

review articles dont count anyway for first paper imho

if your master thesis is part of a publication, then it's a good sign that you are good enough

but not the only

i know a guy who published his first article after his phd exam and now he's a postdoc in a nobel prize lab

my professor's logic was, "you're 2nd year right now and everyone who ever wasn't a fucking brainlet has done much much more than you before they even entered uni, catch up"

What field? I can only talk about CS, and here most people get their first publication out of the master thesis, some get it before through some project or undergrad research, but that says more about the advisor than the student.

>highschool level papers

>My professors told me I'm a certified brainlet if I don't have one by the time I graduate.
You have shit professors. I really would like to know their exact words.
Most students start doing actual research AFTER they graduate, when they are doing a master or a phd.

please specify precisely what you mean by "paper".
also I think a better metric than "# of published papers" would be "# of citations of your published results by other authors"