"A Study on Rats with Multiple SHANK3 Gene Editing Methods" is a general paper, which can be broken down into five sub-papers, and Han Meng and other five experimenters will write another sub-paper as their doctoral dissertation at Yan University.

Everyone has their own responsibilities to promote the general paper and sub-papers, where is the general paper "A Study of Multiple SHANK3 Gene Editing Methods in Rats" published?

Shen Qi's suggestion is to choose one of the three "Nature", "Science" and "Cell": "I personally prefer "Nature", which has a high IF. When I was a student, my tutor told me that when you have a hard time choosing which journal to submit your paper to, choose the one with the highest IF in the same category. Of course, "Science" and "Cell" can also be considered, and the journal with the most votes will win. ”

When a scientific research team can choose "Nature", "Science", or "Cell" at will, it means that the team is not an ordinary team.

The five experimenters had studied Shen Qi's previous published papers, and Shen Qi seemed to have a special preference for Nature.

Mathematics is difficult to be included in Nature because of its particularity.

However, in physics and chemistry, most of Shen Qi's papers have been published in Nature, including Shen Qi's personal special issue.

"Nature is indeed a good journal, but let's keep a low profile, shall we?" Cui Hualin said with some concern.

Cui Hualin did not complete his doctoral studies in the United States due to special reasons, and he hurriedly returned to China on the eve of the defense.

The other four brothers were similar, Han Meng fled Canada, and Wu Junqiang quietly left the UK.

Du Yuan transformed himself into a woman in a short period of time through biotechnology, and he followed a women's tour group from France to Alexandria, Egypt, and then flew back to China from Egypt.

Tang Yaxing, who speaks the flawless, down-to-earth Dutch language, disguised himself as a Chinese-Dutch businessman, departed from the port of Amsterdam and returned home on a container ship.

The reason why the five experimenters couldn't stay in the top biological laboratories abroad was not because they weren't good enough.

It is precisely because they are so good that the experimental projects they do jeopardize the country's national security.

The words endangering the country's national security were said by the country's government, and the five experimenters were depressed and annoyed.

"In China, power doesn't allow you to keep a low profile. In China, you are absolutely safe. Shen Qi gave everyone courage.

"Then Nature. Cui Hualin raised his hand to vote.

"I agree with Nature, too. The other four expressed their stance.

The general journal of Nature and its subsidiaries receive more than 1,000 papers per week from around the world, and the number of papers published in the main journal and several sub-journals of Nature is less than 100 per week due to limited space.

Authors submit their papers via /submit, and their papers may not be seen by editors until several months later.

What Shen Qi means is that we don't go through the submission system of "Nature" anymore, and send an E-mail directly to their person in charge. I've always done this before.

Every industry has special people who are beyond the regulations, so let's do something special. Wu Junqiang spent some time in the UK, and he was arranged to contact the head of Nature.

Wu Junqiang wrote an E-mail, the recipient is George?? Blake, CC Shen Qi.

"Dr. Blake:

Hello.

I am Wu Junqiang, a researcher in the Biological Laboratory of Shen Qi Research Center of Yan University, and under the leadership of Professor Shen Qi, our team leader, we have completed a genetic research. ”

Nature is a weekly magazine, so its cycle of publishing science news and research results is very fast.

This is another reason why Shen Qi prefers Nature.

Compared with Nature, quarterly or even annual mathematics journals are really too procrastinating.

What age is this, and the amount of updates is king.

The same applies to the readership of scientific magazines.

Even though Nature is the fastest in the industry, the average turnaround time is 13 weeks from the time a manuscript enters the /submit system to when the manuscript is officially accepted.

After 13 weeks, if the author's manuscript is not rejected by the editor, the manuscript will enter the reviewer review stage.

If the reviewer passes, the paper will be published in Nature seven weeks later.

In other words, the average period from submission to publication is 20 weeks for a Nature paper to appear in front of the public.

This is an average on the premise that the quality of the paper is very high.

Half of the papers were clicked off at the editing level, and they could not enter the reviewer review stage at all.

There are also special cases, and that is what the editorial board of Nature considers to be important papers.

Important papers are usually published within a month of receiving the manuscript, and so far, the fastest publication record in Nature is 5 days, which is held by Shen Qi's applied physics team.

United Kingdom.

Editorial Board of Nature.

Busy as always.

Contrary to the perception of Nature's readership, not all of Nature's editorial staff are uncles and aunts over 50 years old.

In fact, most of Nature's editorial team are young people from many different countries, most of whom have worked as postdocs in the world's best labs.

Under the leadership of the editor-in-chief, Nature's editorial team is divided into two groups, the Life Sciences Group and the Natural Sciences Group.

George?? Dr. Blake, the editor-in-chief of the Natural Sciences group, is an American who did postdoctoral research at the MIT lab and is only 39 years old.

Americans take email very seriously.

If you send an American a message on their phone, they may not get back to you until the next day, or they may never bother you.

But you send an email to the Americans, and they will check it as soon as possible and give a reply.

Dr. Blake immediately saw the email from Wu Junqiang.

Dr. Blake's main research is physics and chemistry, and Dr. Blake has never heard of the unfamiliar name Wu Junqiang.

Shen Qi in the CC column is an old friend of Dr. Blake.

"Oh, Qi, you're starting to study genetic engineering?" Dr. Blake clicked on the attached PDF "A Study of Multiple SHANK3 Gene Editing Methods in Rats", and Shen Qi's name appeared in the manuscript, along with five authors whose names looked like Chinese.

After studying the "Rat Study of Multiple SHANK3 Gene Editing Methods" for a while, Dr. Blake didn't fully understand it, but he didn't understand it at all.

The abstract and summary of the paper are written in layman's terms: our team found some gene editing methods and conducted experiments on rats, which effectively regulated the IQ of rats.

"Sure enough, it's a paper on genetic engineering, so leave this matter to Matt. Dr. Blakes forwarded the email to Matt, the editor-in-chief of Nature's life sciences group. Dr. Harris, and replied to Shen Qi and Wu Junqiang:

"Qi, Wu, I have received your paper, but I'm sorry, I'm a layman in the field of life sciences, and I can't make any valuable comments about this paper. My colleague, Matt Matt, editor-in-chief of the Life Sciences group?? Dr. Harris, I will personally follow up on your papers. Good luck. ”