When Sun Ruyue and others were preparing for the experiment, Yang Rui took care of himself and read the letter. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In later generations, there were WeChat, QQ, SMS, telephone, email and other contact tools, but in China in the 80s, letters were the most basic and important contact tools.

Ask the Chinese in the 80s, there may be very few who have not written a letter, but there are too many who have not made a phone call or photographed a telegram.

Although Yang Rui calls every day when he wants to, he is a local tyrant and cannot be compared with ordinary people.

Now it only costs a few cents to send a letter, but it may cost a few yuan to make a phone call, and the phone is not something that can be called if you want to, for example, in Xizhaizi Township, in addition to the township government, there is a telephone in addition to the township government, that is, the post office, and the phone is not to be dialed up, and the manual transfer all the way to Beijing may take half an hour, and it is not uncommon to wait for two or three hours on the line.

It can be said that the telephone line to Beijing in 1984 was even more congested than the road to Beijing in 2014.

Yang Rui's classmates in the Ruixue group, as well as the experts he met in meetings, and even the experts he didn't know, also liked to write to him.

Nowadays, it is normal for an ordinary college student to send and receive more than a dozen emails in a semester, unlike in later generations, when sending letters, it takes several pages, many people like to write large characters, write twenty or thirty words on a page, and a letter is likely to have no 144 words.

And these letters, there are chats, greetings, and work, but most of them are chats.

Yang Rui is also accustomed to writing text messages, he puts the letter on the left, put the letter on the right, while reading, he replies to the letter, the letter is written, put it in the envelope, sealed, and then the reply letter is tied with the credit rubber band sent over, naturally there is a scientific research dog to help fill in the reply address, paste stamps and send it, than the steps of sending and receiving mobile phone text messages are not much troublesome.

Of course, the premise is that there is a scientific dog to help.

Under more than a dozen domestic letters, there are four foreign letters, since Yang Rui participated in the "International Medical and Biological Engineering", there are experts and professors who know to send exchange letters, and after he published "Cell", there are even strangers who don't know to send letters.

He is the corresponding author of the paper, so it is natural to publish his contact information in "Cell", and for the biological science community, a heavyweight paper is equivalent to a golden advertising space.

Yang Rui opened the letter unhurriedly and replied.

Just as later generations of researchers had to write e-mails every day, reading and replying to letters has always been part of the researcher's job.

This way of working can be pushed forward by two or three hundred years. Many of Gauss's famous discoveries and achievements were even dug out of his letters by later scholars.

The teaching assistants and lecturers who also work in the Tang Concentration Laboratory watched Yang Rui write letters in English with envy, which is one of the reasons why everyone is scrambling to participate in international conferences.

"Huh. Opening the last letter, Yang Rui was a little surprised.

"Is there a good thing?" said Assistant Tan, the head dog in the laboratory.

"JMC wanted me to read a paper. Yang Rui didn't answer whether it was good or bad.

Assistant Professor Tan snorted and gasped: "Is it the "JMC" that you published your paper on?"

"That's right. ”

"JMC invites you to be a reviewer?" Lecturer Fan, the second-in-command in the laboratory, was also attracted to him.

Yang Rui still nodded and said, "They are also a peer review mechanism. ”

Yang Rui has been a reviewer of Biochemical Systems Ecology before, and has also reviewed several papers. However, after the start of the scientific research competition of potassium channel, Yang Rui had no time to review the manuscript, and rejected several papers one after another.

Of course, Yang Rui has not reviewed a manuscript of the level of "JMC".

Although foreign journals do not have very strict requirements for reviewers - after all, it is a voluntary work, and two or three people do it at the same time, but they still have the minimum qualifications for reviewers.

Especially for journals at the level of "JMC", they invite reviewers, which in itself means a kind of qualification.

If only one threshold paper is published in the journal, it is impossible for the editor to invite a reviewer unless he is stunned.

In addition, the identity of the invited reviewer will actually have a great impact on whether or not to be invited.

If you are a professor at a world-renowned university, you will definitely give the editor more confidence - the vast majority of journal editors only have a basic level of scientific research, at most they have made achievements in some aspects, and whether the content of the paper meets the requirements of the journal and whether it is valuable depends entirely on the judgment of the reviewer.

As a kind of media, journal agencies invite at most one or two powerful professors to support the façade, but they can't make every journal editor become Leonardo da Vinci.

Arguably, choosing the right reviewer is one of the most important tasks of a journal editor.

Out of caution, the more well-known universities or research institutions, and the more developed countries they are, the more likely they are to be favored by editors.

Peking University, which is 84 years old, is far from meeting the standards of world-famous universities, and there are naturally not many reviewer invitations from foreign journals.

Assistant Teacher Tan walked over greedily, simply stood behind Yang Rui, and asked, "Who wrote the paper, can you see it?"

"You should be able to see that peer review is single-blind. "Lecturer Fan and Assistant Professor Tan stand side by side, he has only graduated for 3 years, and he has not been a reviewer once.

Yang Rui nodded with a smile and said, "It should be single-blind." ”

Single blindness means that the reviewer knows the personal information of the author, while the author of the paper does not know who is reviewing.

Yang Rui unfolded the letter without concealment.

Many professors are too busy to review the manuscript, and often give it to the students under their staff to do the exercises, and then check it themselves, and the journal knows this situation, and generally avoid the mutual review of the manuscript by stakeholders.

Lecturer Fan curiously read the name of the head and said, "the-university-of–tokyo...... The University of Tokyo? or a professor's thesis!"

"It's not uncommon for a professor at the University of Tokyo to submit a paper to JMC. ”

"The University of Tokyo...... Of course, it is normal for professors at the University of Tokyo to submit JMC, but ......" Lecturer Fan wanted to shout a little, but was suppressed by Yang Rui's calm attitude, which made him even more impulsive to shout.

Although there were too many conflicts, in Asia in the 80s, the University of Tokyo was the first in Asia, and Peking University and Tsinghua University even struggled to squeeze into the second echelon composed of the National University of Singapore, South Korea's Seoul University, and Israel's Hebrew University.

Although a professor at the University of Tokyo writes an ordinary paper and sends it to Yang Rui's hands, it is nothing.

However, when this theoretically possible thing happens, people in reality are still affected by their senses.

"Yang Rui can actually review the manuscript for the professor at the University of Tokyo?" This thought surrounded Lecturer Fan and Assistant Professor Tan, and the two of them were breathless.

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