>>11483294I’m a geologist, so take this with a grain of halite, but those influential papers are often done by people for whom that isn’t their first rodeo. They probably did lots of meaningless stuff too at the beginning. My advisor, for example, did a bunch of hyper-specific, spatially-specific research on one lake that - while good science - had zero impacts for most people. Now, with that lake experience, she’s doing work on different lakes with wider implications and is making name for herself.
You’re going to have to learn to be a scientist before you get your first authorship on an influential paper. Keep slogging along; science isn’t what most people expect. I believe in you anon.
