My first first-author paper came out today, in PNAS's early edition:
G.J. Peterson, S. Presse, and K.A. Dill. 2010. Nonuniversal power law scaling in the probability distribution of scientific citations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 10.1073/pnas.1010757107.
I'm pretty excited about this! This was my first real experience with publishing a scientific paper. The main thing that was a surprise to me is how much journal-specific formatting is required from the authors. I had expected the journal itself would take care of most of the typesetting and aesthetic details, but (at least at PNAS) this is not the case. This isn't a bad thing, just a bit unexpected. (My only previous paper, from my undergraduate work, had me as third-author, and I wasn't involved with the publication process at all. For the very morbidly curious, that paper can be found here.)
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