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Most undergrads who get a paper published are not publishing math papers. This stackexchange answer is relevant https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/4

Most undergrads who get a paper published are not publishing math papers. This stackexchange answer is relevant https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/48399/how-many-papers-should-a-phd-student-in-math-try-to-publish-before-graduating https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/48399/how-many-... Also this quote from a math professor, linked to in that SE link: "Many people get a PhD in mathematics before having a single accepted paper (I did), and if they have an eminent advisor who goes to bat for them, having no papers need not be much of a strike against them in the postdoctoral market."

salty_biscuits 7y ago
"Most undergrads who get a paper published are not publishing math papers." Err, I am not sure how to respond here. I said "it wasn't unheard of", which means when I went through I heard of a few bright undergrads getting publications in maths. It definitely happens. My personal experience says it would be extremely rare to get a phd now without a publication (again, in maths). It was different in the past. Hard numbers would be better than anecdata I guess.