Weightage of a review paper on an undergraduate CV Background: CS Undergraduate applying to CS PhD (USA)
I am involved in a review paper as a 2nd author. The review paper is of a very high quality and most likely will get accepted in a journal with a high impact factor. There will be 2 other authors who are both Co P.I. s of the project.
Question:
Does that hold any weightage in front of a PhD Admit Panel?
Note: The paper length is around 30 double columned pages so ample research is covered and future prospects are suggested in depth.
Yes, it holds a weight.
How much? it depends on the sensibility of the Panel, if no hard-rules are set.
Maybe 0.5 times the weight of a regular paper, because it is missing the novelty? Or maybe 1.5 times the weight of a regular paper, because if you took part in the review, then you already are updated about the State-of-Art on the topic and it can be very relevant to your PhD?
In absence of hard rules, it depends strongly on how you frame it. Be smart.
Then of course it has not much weight in the CV, if it is a 10 years old review paper: in 10 years the SoA changed a lot ... and if did not change much, you can publish an update of the same review paper, updating the content.