Chapter 549: A Magazine?
It took ten days for Tian Lu to be elected as an academician of the Academy of Sciences.
From Thursday's announcement to the following Saturday, Tian Lu didn't remember how many phone calls he had answered, how many blessings he had received, and almost every day during the day, he would go out to attend symposiums held by schools, colleges, hospitals, and even basic medical schools, and then invite his three departments to dinner, invite some close comrades-in-arms of the Kyoto Neurosurgery Committee to dinner, and visit Shi Dongyun and others to thank each other for their supportγγγγγγ
It took ten days before it finally stopped.
However, although his side has calmed down, after all, he has won the title of academician of the Academy of Sciences, and he is the youngest among the newly elected academicians this year, and even among all the current academicians of the Academy of Sciences, Tian Lu is also the youngest one, and if you add that he has been elected as an academician of the American Academy of Sciences a few months ago, he has obtained two extremely important titles within a year, which makes many people pay attention to Tian Lu.
Interview requests from television, newspapers and other media are inevitable, but just like a few months ago, Tian Lu still pushed off most of them and only accepted two or three brief interviews. As for other interview requests, and even some invitations hoping that Tian Lu could be on some health science TV programs, they were all blocked by Tian Lu.
"The question now is, what about the invitations of those academic organizations?"
He Tianlin looked at the notepad in his hand and asked with a headache: "The invitation to the meeting is the same as before, and I basically declined it." But I don't dare to call the shots when these academic organizations invite me, they are very sincere, and they also make it clear that academicians must lead academic activities when they go in, so γγγγγγ β
"Academic organizations?"
After pondering for a moment, Tian Lu asked, "What are the academic organizations?" Is it related to us? β
He Tianlin nodded and said with a smile: "It's all related to us, such as professional academic organizations such as the Anti-Epilepsy Alliance, as well as local academic organizations such as the Kyoto Neuroscience Society, etc., some of which have invited you before." I guess it was also after you were elected as a member of the Academy of Sciences that they remembered it again. Oh yes. Several domestic academic journals have also sent you invitations. I want to invite you to be the editorial board of the magazine, and when the editorial directors of four or five magazines called me, they even made it clear that if you want, they will directly hire you as the editor-in-chief when the next editorial board is re-elected! β
"Hmmγγγγγγ"
Rubbing his chin. Tian Lu frowned and pondered.
Academic organization above. Tian Lu didn't plan to add too much. According to his character. Since you have taken up the position, you must take responsibility, so if you join too much, you will definitely not be able to take care of it. In Taji's program, the Kyoto Neurology and Surgery Branch. The Chinese Neurosurgery Branch, and perhaps the Internal Medicine Branch in the future, as well as the Chinese Neuroscience Society, will only join these five academic organizations, and the others are really not of much interest.
However, the words of the editorial board of the academic journal γγγγγγ
Looking at the list written down by He Tianlin, after pondering for a while, Tian Lu suddenly raised his head and asked, "Tianlin, do you think it is interesting to be the editorial board members of these magazines?" β
"This γγγγγγ"
He Tianlin was stunned when he heard this, and then smiled bitterly: "It depends on what you think." Basically, experts will not refuse an invitation to a journal, after all, the job is to help review the manuscript, sometimes at most to help write two articles, and as far as I know, many professors have the title of editorial board member of more than a dozen journals! β
"So much?"
Hearing this number, Tian Lu couldn't help but be slightly surprised!
"It's not a lot."
He Tianlin shook his head with a smile and said: "If you serve as an editorial board, you don't necessarily have to help them do anything, many times some magazines also rely on the name of experts to improve the level of the magazine, and the reputation can be regarded as helping each other." But for the sake of your current status, I personally suggest that you can have four or five books, pick the best ones, the workload is not large, and it can be regarded as a social part-time job. β
"That's γγγγγγ"
Tian Lu understood a little, but after thinking about it for a while, he shook his head and said: "Forget it, it's still too much, I can read two books, one is "Huaxia Journal of Neurosurgery" and one is "Huaxia Journal of Neurobiology", just the two of them!" β
With a systematic medical literature support system, Tian Lu doesn't think he will spend much time on reviewing, but he really doesn't want to be involved with too many academic journals.
Needless to say, Tian Lu has long been a member of their special editorial board, and when he is re-elected next year, it will be nothing more than a formal one. This point was emphasized again when Xia Mo, the director of the editorial department, called to congratulate him a few days ago, so Tian Lu happily agreed. It is almost an unwritten convention that any member of the Huaxia Neurosurgery Committee is basically an editorial board member of this journal, and Tian Lu does not want to break it.
As for the Chinese Journal of Neurobiology, it should be the best in China in the field of basic scientific research, and Tian Lu is also interested in learning about the latest research progress in China. After all, as Tian Lu has entered more and more fields in recent years, the historical literature publication records have quietly changed many times.
As for the rest, forget itγγγγγγ
Today's Tian Lu is not the Tian Lu when he just returned to China, although most of his thoughts are spent on scientific research, but he usually has a lot of things to do, and he is naturally very aware of the cats that exist in these academic journals in China.
In addition to the fact that each article must be reviewed by two editorial boards, it is necessary to hold a final meeting to determine the table of contents of each issue, which can be said to have a certain control over the quality of the manuscript, but for other magazines with uneven quality, let alone a final meeting. In many cases, the director of the editorial department can pat his head and decide whether to be hired or not.
Favors, money, and corporate advertorialsγγγγγγ
There will be all kinds of manuscripts, and there are also various situations such as "expedited" and "special review", which can be said to be quite speechless.
Rather lack than excess.
The best scientific research results in China are rarely published in China, and it is difficult for Tian Lu to imagine what kind of manuscripts those low-level journals will receive.
"Okay, then I'll go back and give them a reply."
Although he felt that Tian Luxuan's magazines were too few, He Tianlin hesitated slightly, did not continue to persuade, and nodded in agreement.
"That's right!"
Just when He Tianlin was about to start talking about the next thing. Tian Lu suddenly clapped his hands. He asked with a smile: "Tianlin, what do you say if we run an academic journal by ourselves?" β
"Make your own?"
He Tianlin was stunned when he heard this.
Tian Lu nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, let's make a copy ourselves, and we can take it in the future." Articles from the institute and the lab are published in our own magazines. What do you think? β
"I don't think so!"
He Tianlin, who reacted quickly. Almost without hesitation, he shook his head and said.
"Why?"
Tian Lu asked with some curiosity.
Taking a deep breath, it seemed that it was quite painful for his director's whim, He Tianlin sighed and said, "Director." Since you want to start a magazine, you don't want to start a bad magazine, right? Any excellent academic journal, that is, those academic journals with a high impact factor, has basically gone through decades or even hundreds of years of development, even if we can't do that, at least we must be relatively good, right? Do you know what it takes to run a good journal, especially a good academic journal? β
"Thisγγγγγγ I really don't know. β
Tilting his head and thinking for a while, Tian Lu honestly shook his head and said.
"First, you need someone!"
Stretching out his right hand and curling the other four fingers except for the index finger, He Tianlin said seriously: "Don't look at the fact that there are a lot of people with senior titles in our three departments now, but everyone is engaged in scientific research and is a physician, who will be an editor?" This profession is the same as our neurosurgeons, and it takes a long time to train! If you say that you can poach people, I just want to say that you are not good at poaching senior editors, even if you dig one or two, it is not something that can be done in one or two years to establish a qualified editorial department! β
"Well, maybe."
Although he didn't quite agree with He Tianlin's pessimistic thoughts, Tian Lu still felt that there was some truth, so he nodded and said, "What about the second one?" β
"Second, you have to be rich!"
There are one and two, He Tianlin stretched out his middle finger again and said, "The office needs money, right?" All kinds of work, including the printing of magazines, do you need money? In addition, if you just put together a grass team, it will definitely not cost a lot of money, but if you want to build a good editorial department, you must hire editors of sufficient level, right? That's even more money. β
"Well, that's itγγγγγγγ Shouldn't be a big problem, right? β
Tian Lu frowned, and replied with some lack of confidence.
For the current Tian Lu, of course, money is not a problem, but the key is that if you want to run an academic journal, personal investment is definitely not possible, and you must rely on the strength of the unit.
An academic journal must have a competent unit and a sponsor, and these units must be state-owned, so it cannot make a private structure like Future Biotech, otherwise, it will definitely be fine in the past, but when the journal really has great influence in the future, many things will not be clear.
"If it doesn't work, just ask the leaders to help, or the research institute and neurosurgery department will make up for it, and solve the start-up capital first!"
Tian Lu thought secretly in his heart.
The research institute and the neurosurgery department are still relatively well funded, especially in addition to the regular income, the two families will receive a lot of financial support from the enterprise every year, and Tian Lu's mind naturally has an idea.
As for the future, it depends on the magazine's own hematopoietic function.
The entry of academic journals depends on advertising, which even Tian Lu knows. Especially for pharmaceutical advertising, because prescription drugs and medical devices are not allowed to be advertised in the mass media, and it is not very useful, magazine advertising, especially those of top academic magazines, has become a resource that major pharmaceutical companies are staring at.
Tian Lu is still confident that he will run the magazine well and get a large amount of advertising revenue in the future.
"Third, you have to have a manuscript source!"
He Tianlin continued: "An academic journal has as few as 48 pages and as many as more than 100 pages. As a brand new magazine, where do we go to get it? β
"What's there to worry about?"
Tian Lu blinked his eyes and said with a smile: "Don't say anything else, in the future, the three of us will have a lot of manuscripts every year, what are you afraid of?!" β
Regarding Tian Lu's confident judgment, He Tianlin just smiled slightly, and said leisurely: "Director, are you sure that the people in our three units are willing to post the article in this new magazine?" Are you really sure? β
"Of course I γγγγγγ Belch! β
Just half a sentence, Tian Lu's words suddenly came to an abrupt end!
"You're not sure, are you?"
He Tianlin raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "But what I'm sure of is that I'm afraid no one is willing to hand over the article to a new magazine for publication!" Everyone's articles are summarized through hard work on the topic, and great effort and labor have been paid, so I naturally hope that the greater the influence, the better, and I must give priority to famous foreign journals, followed by domestic old magazines, like new magazines, even if you are the boss, I'm afraid they are not very willing, right? Hehe, unless you give a death order that they must submit the manuscript! β
"Huh? This, this is definitely not going to work! β
As soon as He Tianlin finished speaking, Tian Lu immediately shook his head.
Even if it is the subject of Tian Lu, the plan and plan put forward by him will be implemented by others after all, and the final answer will be obtained, and he has no reason to erase the hope of others! is like Huang Qiaoqiao, if Tian Lu proposes it, it is naturally impossible for her not to agree, but is this fair to others?
He Tianlin's three questions were thrown out in a row, which suddenly made Tian Lu start to reconsider his idea.
Of course, Tian Lu's desire to start his own magazine was not a whim for a while, but in fact, it was also a long-term plan in his heart, and the main reason was because of the long publication cycle of ordinary magazines and the limitation of publication length.
If a research result wants to be published in a journal, it must be written as an article, which limits a certain length and content, which is really difficult for Tian Lu to accept. Just like the article that was handed over to BMJ at the beginning, even though he compressed and compressed, it was still divided into three publications in the end, and Tian Lu had this idea that he hoped that some major topics in the future could be fully announced as soon as possible!
But now listening to He Tianlin's words, it is really not easy to run an influential magazine!
However, of course, these difficulties could not frighten Tian Lu, but after thinking about it for a while, he still narrowed his eyes and nodded: "Okay, I understand all this, but you still help me first inquire about the requirements for applying for a magazine, and there is no harm in knowing moreγγγγγγγ (To be continued.) )