A talented undergraduate student did internship in my lab (in a medical school). She is going to take a gap year before she apply for a graduate school, maybe taking a language course in a normal university. What affiliation should she belong to when publishing the work she did in the medical school? The medical school or the normal university? Does her affiliation influence the applying of the graduate school?
It depends on where the research was done. If it was in your university, that university is the affiliation. If it was when she was outside, it should be, like many of previous answer, "independent".
I reccomend too to evaluate who gives the resources, the platforms, the labs or the funding, to make the right decision.
Hello,
The affiliation should be the institution the student author is attending. The exception to this position is where the institution has policies prohibiting that.
Best regards,
Dr. Segun Awode
If the research is commissioned by the Unviersity and it is part of the graduation requirement, then the student is classified as a student scholar affiliated with the Unviersity. If she has an adviser, then the adviser has a scientific contribution of the paper then he or she will become part of the publication. However, if it is done independently as a personal research, then the student is classified as an independent scholar. This scenario depends with the existing policies and guidelines of your institution or the University.
The institute he/she has been studying/working; simply because when they started the work, they were there. Also, the ethical approval for the research was issued by that institute, most likely. If they used facilities, laboratories or questionnaires, they were most likely in that institute.
The overlap that you mentioned, or the gaps (year or months) happen, and it is a common thing to students and researchers. As I stated earlier, the last institute they belonged to should be the option. They can write a note in the cover letter stating "currently moving to another college", or "I am waiting for an appointment at another institute" etc.
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