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  • re combining into one, the OP is 1st auth on one and someone else is 1st auth on the second. So which academic is it who doesn't get 1st authorship? I can see Alice looking up at us from the bottom of that hole.
    – CGCampbell
    Commented May 18, 2022 at 10:20
  • Medical research can be surprisingly specialized; that said, to me this sounds like fairly low-impact research on both studies. I presume these are retrospective correlational analyses, a dime-a-dozen in the medical field, but still useful as a collective whole.
    – Bryan Krause
    Commented May 18, 2022 at 20:21