Chapter 145: How Many Papers to Test the Waters?
Qi Xin regretted a little that she had invited Liu Feng to come to their School of Physics for graduate school.
This guy can't be judged by common sense at all.
In just one month, the project was over, and even if he believed it, people didn't believe it!
No, on the other end of the phone, his old friend Qin Zhi said to him in a skeptical tone with a professor.
"My Professor Qi, you also studied physics, although only condensed matter physics...... But what do you think is high-energy physics, the college entrance examination questions in high school?
Professor Qin Zhiyong is a team leader of the Beijing Positron Collider National Laboratory, and is responsible for analyzing and processing the data of the Positron Collider.
Last month, Qi Xin 'borrowed' a project from him, saying that it was for his students.
But Qin Zhiyong didn't believe it at all, he thought that Qi Xin's work at Huada was not going well, and he wanted to change careers to engage in high-energy physics, and wanted to find something practical to study and practice, but he was afraid of losing face, so he said that he was a student.
It's a joke, a tutor who is engaged in condensed matter physics accepts a student who wants to do particle physics, why don't we believe it so much!
"Really, Lao Qin, I am so honest that I can still lie to you alone? Besides, what's the benefit of lying to you? This kind of academic research thing, no joke!"
Qi Xin hurriedly explained.
He could fully imagine how surprised the other party was. With such a demonic student, this phenomenon is simply too normal!
"If you don't believe me, I'll bring you the paper immediately, how about it?"
Huh? Listening to this guy's tone, isn't it really his own use?
Qin Zhiyong was shocked when he heard that Qi Xin had even made a paper.
It's only been a month!
When did this guy have such a high talent for studying high-energy physics?
Speaking of which, the difficulty of the subject he gave was actually not high, but it involved a series of professional terms and professional data, and these data could only be understood thoroughly by a person who was familiar with the positron and negative electron collider; if ordinary people wanted to understand it, it would be absolutely impossible without a year or two of research! Even a person like Qi Xin, who had a foundation in physics, would have to spend at least three or five months, let alone study the laws in it!
One month?
With this talent, why did you choose the condensed matter direction in the first place?
Qin Zhi was heartbroken, unhappy with his old friend's work, and also buried Qi Xin's high-energy physics talent.
"In that case, bring it to me and I'll take a look. ”
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The editorial department of Nature is still the editorial department of Nature Magazine, but the editors inside have changed one after another.
The reason is nothing more than that it is as busy as ever......
Thousands of manuscripts are sent from all over the world every day, but there are only so many editors! Editors' daily workload has long exceeded the legal limit of 8 hours, or even 12 hours is the norm, and for them, overtime has long been commonplace, even if overtime can sometimes be done at home......
In Europe and the United States, such a long working time, even if there is a high overtime pay, it is unthinkable, why not come to you to be an editor?
Not to mention the boring work, and the overtime hours are long!
But Campbell doesn't think so.
He has been working as an editor here for 8 years, and he really loves this job because he feels how rewarding it is to select new and groundbreaking papers from a large number of manuscripts and put them in the hands of the right reviewers for publication!
There is no doubt that this is a great job because the whole world is changing because of him.
Needless to say, the fame of nature is too great!
As the largest academic journal in the world, only the scientific journal next door can compete with one of them.
Therefore, in order to publish on this issue, the editors here have also opened their eyes to the way they submit their articles.
To be honest, editors like Campbell, who only have an undergraduate degree, have no way to judge the correctness of a paper, and they can only refer to the identity of the contributor, the university or scientific research institution, or even the previous submission history and other information outside the paper to determine whether a paper is eligible for peer review.
On November 11, 2010, Tmall 11.11 Shopping Festival.
Campbell, who is in the country, is neither a single dog nor a Chinese, so naturally he can't live such a festive day.
As usual, Campbell made himself a cup of cat poop coffee, opened his work mailbox, and received the papers that had been reviewed by the technical editors.
Looking at the emails, he didn't feel his scalp tingle like the other editors, but his eyes lit up.
"My little darlings, Daddy is here!"
Campbell licked his lips and was about to open the email to start the review.
"Oh my God! I think tomorrow will either be me laid off, or those scumbags from the technical department will be laid off!
Beside him, there was a wail from his colleague Joey.
"I think it's probably more of you laid off, after all, the old diehards in the technology department don't follow your ideas to develop new features for office software. ”
Campbell's hand trembled, and the coffee accidentally spilled on his body, so he frowned, wiped it with his hand, and mended the knife. For his colleague, he also knew that this guy was just a simple complaint, and he would definitely be reluctant to let this guy be laid off.
"Damn! Isn't it just for them to further classify the papers? Calculate the weight value according to the cumulative impact factor of the contributor's past submission records and the academic ranking of the research institution, and then sort it, and do the little things that can be done at your fingertips! And those guys are simply eating white hamburgers, just eating and not doing things!"
Joey continued to complain.
Campbell put his coffee on the table, shook his head, and said, "Hehe, wake up, man! With this complaining time, you can review several papers! Your idea sounds good, but it's a completely unfair treatment to the unnamed contributors." ”
"What's the matter? The nameless contributors, 99 are all indiscriminate guys!" Joey complained as he dragged a paper he described as indiscriminate into the trash, "It's a waste of our time!"
passed one after another, but the emails in the mailbox were like mobile phone parts on the Futukang No. 3 assembly line, one after another, and never stopped.
In the next email, when he saw the rows of attachments under the title, Joey couldn't help but complain in his heart.
Another wonderful contributor!
It stands to reason that one paper is one email, this is common sense, but this guy is good, Joey pulled the mouse down, and found that this email was a terrifying attachment of 16 papers!
This guy, are you sent by God to be in charge of funny jokes?
How can you submit like this!
Moreover, this is nature, eh, I published 16 papers in the journal at once, and you haven't woken up yet, who do you think you are, a relative of the big boss of the magazine?
or
Is it simply the legendary Liu Feng who submitted 8 papers in one go and all of them were published?
Subconsciously looked into the contributor's name column, and just as Joey was wondering how much he needed to waste a few minutes reading these papers, he was suddenly stunned.
I saw the name of the contributor,
It is the Liu Feng who is well-known in the academic editing circle!
it!
Hell yes!
What luck it is!
"Hey, man, look at what I found!"
Joey exclaimed.
"You've found something so fuss about!"
Campbell hesitated for two seconds, but walked over after putting down what he was doing.
"See for yourself, who this guy is!"
Joey snapped his fingers and said triumphantly.
Campbell then looked at Joey's computer.
I saw that there were 16 attachments attached to this email, and each attachment turned out to be a paper!
Good guy, is it another wonder?
Look at the signature column of the email again, Liu Feng?
Liu Feng!
Campbell was stunned.
It's this guy again!
They are really destined!
I still remember the last time it was the two of them, but the other Mike has left, and they reviewed Liu Feng's 8 papers on polyamide composites together, and now it's only been more than three months, Campbell can't believe it, it's only been so much time, this guy has made a new discovery? And the frustrating thing is that this time there are as many as 16 papers, which is twice as many as the last time!
That's an exaggeration, isn't it?
Campbell looked at the titles of these papers, and they were all about reverse osmosis materials.
Well, I'm convinced, knowing that you're the top expert in this area......
"Man, do you think I'm watching or watching?"
Joey asked weakly when he saw Campbell's sluggish look.
You are a senior, and the last time you participated in the review of Liu Feng's paper, or was it all given to you?
"Of course!"
Campbell showed how much attention he attached to Liu Feng.
"If you can't see it, divide me in half!"
"That's a good feeling!"
Joey was happy, half of the workload was shared all at once, and it seems that he should be able to leave work on time today!
So, he handed over 8 papers to Campbell, and then the two carefully reviewed them.