"Hans, is that the first thing you say when you welcome an old friend?"

Pouting, Tian Lu angrily gave the resident doctor of the same year a helpless look.

"Uh。。。。。。"

Hans was also slightly stunned, then laughed, and came up to give Tian Lu a big hug: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I've been thinking about the news that just came out, so 。。。。。。 Haha, welcome back to New York! ”

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Tian Lu hugged or got to know each other with several other people who picked up the airport, basically from Columbia University School of Medicine and the affiliated hospital, including two Chinese students, who took the initiative to ask to come to pick up Tian Lu because they had admired Tian Lu for a long time.

In fact, before Tian Lu left, people from the Lasker Award Committee, and even the Chinese Consulate in New York contacted him and expressed the idea of coming to the airport to greet him, but in the end they all politely refused to Tian Lu. Compared to others, he still feels that his partners are more cordial, and more importantly, they are more casual together.

Everyone went out and got into a business car, and Tian Lu asked with a smile: "Hans, what news just came out, and the first thing you said when you saw me was not a hello?" Is it about me? ”

"Of course!"

Speaking of this topic again, Hans's mood obviously became excited immediately, and he nodded and smiled: "Tian, do you know the Citation Laureate Award?" ”

"Citation Laureate?"

Tian Lu's brows furrowed slightly, and after thinking about it, he asked a little uncertainly: "I seem to have a vague impression." But it's really not clear. But I guess it's a thing that counts the number of citations of a paper, but is that an award? Hosted there? ”

When he heard Tian Lu's words, Hanston was amused, and everyone else in the car laughed.

"Didn't I know this award was weird?"

Tian Lu was a little confused by everyone's laughter, and asked a little puzzled. Just now, Tian Lu noticed very carefully, when he couldn't speak clearly, Hans proudly made a "Look, that's right?" This made him a little concerned.

"Of course it's weird!"

Under Tian Lu's gaze, Hans shrugged his shoulders and smiled: "As a big favorite for the Nobel Prize." If you don't pay attention, that's it. But isn't it worth the surprise that we haven't even heard of this thing? ”

Another Chinese student from Columbia University also smiled and chimed in: "Yes, Professor Tian, Hans said that you don't care about anything other than scientific research. Even including these world-class awards. Originally, we still didn't believe it. But now it seems that what he said is not bad at all! ”

"Okay, okay."

Tian Lu smiled helplessly. Shaking his head, he said, "So who can tell me now, what the hell is this Citation Laureate Award?" Is it really an award? ”

Seeing that Tian Lu's expression was indeed a little confused, Hans understood, his old friend probably didn't know anything about these things, and he couldn't help but sigh a little in his heart. For any scientist who hopes to win the Nobel Prize, it is a matter of course to pay attention to the citation laurel award, but this common sense is really not applicable here in Tian Lu, and what is reflected in this is somewhat intriguing。。。。。。

"To be precise, the Citation Laureate Award is not actually an award in the conventional sense."

After sighing in his heart, Hans began to explain patiently to Tian Lu: "This is a company called Thomson Reuters, which is mainly set up by quantitative analysis to evaluate scientists all over the world. And like the Lasker Prize, because its winner is also likely to win the Nobel Prize subsequently, everyone also sees it as one of the weather vanes of the Nobel Prize. ”

"Oh?"

After listening to Hans's brief introduction, Tian Lu suddenly became interested, and asked with a smile: "Then listen to what you say, I have one of this Citation Laureate Award this year?" ”

Hans smiled and nodded, "Yes, the results just released, there are nine people in the field of life sciences who have been selected, and you are one of them, and you are the only scientist in a separate group among the four groups!" ”

After saying this, Hans, like the others, had a flash of admiration and envy in his eyes.

The Citation Laureate Award will release four groups of winners in each field every year, and the number of them is also in accordance with the requirements of Nobel, at least one, at most three, and this year's life science field has a total of nine people selected, one group of two, two groups of three, and Tian Lu alone.

"So, what are their criteria?"

After a moment of silence, Tian Lu asked.

"The most important thing is, of course, the number of citations!"

Hans nodded: "The statistics are the number of citations per person in the past thirty years, and we have to praise in this regard, your earliest article was only about ten years ago, but the total number of citations can be compared to those scientists whose main scientific research results were more than twenty years ago, which is really great!" ”

Smiling slightly, Hans's admiration did not make Tian Lu care too much, for a native American, words such as "great", "perfect", "unbelievable" and other words that express extreme admiration are just open to the mouth, and they should not be true.

After a pause, Hans continued: "In addition to the number of citations, whether the research content is the current hot topic, whether the major achievements in the same field are the main contributors, and whether peers recognize this achievement, that is, whether it has won major international awards, these are all one of the evaluation indicators of the Citation Laureate Award, it can be said that your conditions are outstanding in these aspects, so it is a matter of course to be selected." ”

This time, even Tian Lu himself bowed slightly, and he thought so.

As one of the foundations of the whole neuroscience, the blood-brain barrier theory is the premise of many professional fields, and its improvement is not only the research in the basic field, but also provides a theoretical basis for the diagnosis and treatment of clinical medicine and surgery, and the importance cannot be overemphasized. Although many of the current blood-brain barrier theories are the results of previous accumulated research results, it is undeniable that since the first paper at the Scripps Research Institute, Tian Lu has created a new era, and the subsequent guidance of international conferences and research reviews has provided reliable and efficient ideas for researchers all over the world. Not to mention Tian Lu's subsequent book "Blood-Brain Barrier" with a summary review, which was the final word for the final determination of the entire theoretical system!

As for whether peers admit it, not to mention so many researchers and physicians who cooperate with Tian Lu, just look at the upcoming Lasker Prize, which is about to be awarded, these are all selected by the scientists themselves!

"So, with the Lasker Prize and the Citation Laureate Award, you are already the most popular candidate for the Nobel Prize this year!"

In the end, Hans seemed to be summing up this sentence, which immediately made Tian Lu laugh dumbly.

To be honest, although Tian Lu has a cautious personality and is not very willing to make such and such speculations, he also understands very well in his heart that with the important position of the blood-brain barrier theory and its significant influence in the field of neurosurgery, there is a great chance that the Nobel Prize will be awarded to him soon, even if it is not impossible to get it this year, after all, this is a huge achievement that no one can deny.

However, Tian Lu is not willing to pay much attention to whether he wins this award or not.

With the future residency decision support system, Tian Lu is very sure that his achievements in this life are absolutely unimaginable to others, and the huge plans that follow will slowly prove it. Now, the desire for the Nobel Prize is just for the sake of honor, after all, after winning the award, many things in his country will be greatly convenient, and many obstacles will be cleared for future development.

To put it bluntly, it is naturally a surprise to get the award, but if you can't get it, it's just a matter of waiting a few more years.

For Tian Lu's free and easy mentality, it is basically difficult for others to understand, after all, it is the Nobel Prize, the highest honor in the world's scientific community, and it is the ultimate goal in the minds of almost every scientist!

But everyone also saw that Tian Lu's appearance was definitely not intentional, and they naturally sighed again in their hearts.

Although Hans prides himself on being a relatively open person, he thinks that if he is in a situation like Tian Lu, he will definitely not be able to be so calm, and I am afraid that most of his thoughts are spent on this every day.

Nobel Prize Week is only 10 days away!

You must know that the Nobel Prize represents not only the highest honor, but also the interests of real money! Not to mention the high bonus, there are various benefits such as book publication and world tour in the follow-up, that is, it will be much easier to raise funds for future scientific research work! Someone once calculated that winning the Nobel Prize will bring scientists tens of millions of dollars in scientific research funding, and if you happen to be working on some promising research projects, then the funding you can bring is a number that most people can't refuse。。。。。。

"Hans, there's no other arrangement for today, is there?"

Seeing that his friend seemed to have a tendency to be stunned, Tian Lu raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile.

"Oh, no, no."

Hans came back to his senses and immediately shook his head and smiled: "Just after a long flight, and you have to adapt to the jet lag, we will go directly to the hotel now, you can have a good rest during the day, and Professor Longley in the evening they want to invite you to dinner, how about it?" ”

"Of course!"

Tian Lu immediately nodded and smiled: "I will stay in New York until the award ceremony begins, and in addition to some necessary activities in these two days, I hope you can take me to the great school of Columbia University again。。。。。。 (To be continued.) )