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I have a question related to present perfect and past simple.
Which of the following sentence is correct?
1) During my career I have worked on papers that have been published.
2) During my career I have worked on papers that were published

Wilpeter · Accepted Answer

#2) (Don't forget the final period.)
Alternatively, "During my career, I worked on papers that have been published."

CalifJim · Answer

AnonymousDuring my career I have worked on papers that were published.

This sounds like the papers were published and then you worked on them. You worked on already published papers. I don't think you mean this. You could say "that were subsequently published" to avoid this problem.

AnonymousDuring my career I have worked on papers that have been published.

I believe this is closer to what you want to say even though it can be interpreted in the same way that I described above.
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I think you need to be more specific and succinct.

During my career I have [authored / co-authored] ( [several / many] ) published papers.

CJ

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