The advent of sodium citrate made it possible to preserve blood.

This substance has been found to prevent blood from clotting after leaving the body, which not only makes blood transfusions safer, but also gives rise to the emergence of blood banks. It was precisely with this in mind that John dared to assure Kelly that he had the courage to boast at last year's Berlin conference that he was sure that he would be able to solve the problem within a year.

John could have thrown it out at any time if he wanted to. What's more, he even had prepared relevant papers, including the preparation of sodium citrate solution, its use in blood reserves and blood transfusions, etc., a total of three papers have been locked in the drawer of his office. If it weren't for the fact that the research on blood in this era had not yet reached a certain level, John would even throw out questions such as calcium ion concentration......

This time, however, John did not intend to submit his paper to the Lancet or German Medicine, and after leaving Kelly's office, although it was past the end of work, John turned around and went to the editorial office of the New Medical Journal.

This editorial office was just established at the beginning of this year.

The first editorial director was naturally Edward, who John had dug up from The Lancet, and when he saw John, he immediately got up and greeted him: "Good afternoon, Mr. Huntelaar. ”

"Good afternoon, Edward."

John nodded slightly, and asked with a smile, "It's already time to get off work, why don't you go back?" ”

"Anyway, it's close, so there's no hurry."

Shrugging his shoulders, Edward replied with a smile. Like the doctors at the other hospitals, Edward was assigned to a nearby apartment, and it was only a minute or twenty walk back, so he was not in a hurry. In fact, because the dinner served in the hospital restaurant was clean and cheap. Many young bachelors chose to have dinner before leaving, and Edward was one of them.

"Hmmm......"

Originally, he wanted to invite Edward to dinner with him, but John thought of agreeing with Anna for the evening, so he changed his tone and smiled: "How's it going, how is the training of the editors?" ”

"It's going well, they're all very smart and hard-working guys."

Speaking of his two subordinates. Edward's face couldn't help but show a look of satisfaction.

From the day the editorial office was established at the beginning of the year, John never stopped investing in them. In addition to Edward's own salary, he recruited two new young people to join and developed a training program for a whole year. The first issue of the New Medical Journal is scheduled to be published in October, less than three months away. Since it started out as a bi-monthly magazine, the pressure on the editorial department was not too great, but considering that Edward himself had only been in the job for a few years, and the other two were pure editorial recruits, he was still a little uneasy in this regard.

John, of course, saw Edward's uneasiness. I couldn't help but pat him on the shoulder and smiled: "Relax, there are still three months to go, even if you are the only one, I'm afraid you can make the magazine, right?" ”

Dare to say such things, of course, John is confident.

A completely new academic journal, the papers in the inaugural issue could of course only be voluntarily requested by the editors, which was of course very difficult for Edward from Europe. But luckily, the owner of this magazine is John? Mr. Huntelaar, he had prepared all the papers in the inaugural issue of the New Medical Journal early on - all from Heinz General Hospital. He alone has five articles! Moreover, compared with the casualness of other physicians of his time, John's dissertation structure is undoubtedly more complete and rigorous. It's really not a lot of work for the editors.

Edward was well aware of this, but after hesitating for a while, he smiled wryly and said, "Sir, there must be nothing wrong with the publication of the first issue, but ...... Have you ever considered a question? ”

"What's the problem?"

John raised his eyebrows and asked, slightly puzzled.

"Future manuscript source issues!"

After taking a deep breath. Edward said in a deep voice: "Now that the articles in the first issue of the magazine are basically complete, there are still two papers you promised to be, and even the papers in the second issue have been received forty percent, I believe that it will not be a big problem at that time, but what about the future?" A new academic journal. How can you quickly increase its impact? If the impact is not enough, how to attract physicians to submit? ”

Edward was asking a very real question.

In fact, even a hundred years later, in that era of the big explosion of knowledge, millions of academic papers are born every year, but in addition to those journals with high impact factors, other small journals still have to worry about the source of manuscripts. The worst magazines are worried about not having enough space, the magazines that are a little worse are worried about the quality of the manuscripts, and the average magazine is worried about not having enough high-quality manuscripts......

In academic magazines of the late 19th century, such problems were even more acute.

There are so many medical papers in the world throughout the year, and the eyes of physicians are mainly focused on those old or well-known journals. You know, the number of papers in this year is less than a fraction of the future, but as long as the doctors who can write the papers are not vulgar, the quality is quite good.

Regarding Edward's worries, John just smiled slightly after a little silence, and said lightly: "I have already thought about this issue, you don't have to worry about it at all!" ”

"Oh?"

Edward's eyes lit up, and his expression immediately became eager. He also knew that John, despite his youth, was gaining popularity in the medical profession and that he had met many of the top surgeons in Europe, if he could convince them to submit a few articles to the journal......

But before Edward's daydream was finished, John continued: "I can assure you that until June of next year, the first four issues of the New Medical Journal, Heinz General Hospital will provide enough papers of high quality to ensure that the journal will be published on time!" ”

"What? All provided by Heinz General Hospital? ”

After hearing John's words, Edward's eyes instantly widened like two eggs!

"Yes, all!"

Nodding, John said with a serious face: "Don't worry about their quality, I can also assure you that when these four issues of the journal reach the doctors, the name "New Medical Journal" will soon become famous......"

……

The first day of July is the beginning of the second half of the year.

Like the lion king patrolling his territory, John turned the entire hospital around.

Except for surgery.

Of course, this is not that John does not pay attention to surgery, on the contrary, it is precisely because he sees surgery as the foundation of his foothold that he did not go to Thomas on this day, or even to the surgical ward to see Yikang.

John didn't waste half a year.

In addition to weekly outpatient visits and surgeries, in addition to caring for the construction of the medical school, the laboratory of the institute, and the opening of the obstetrics and gynecology department, John was well prepared in his laboratory. Taking the Berlin meeting at the end of last year as a point in time, half a year of "silence" seems to him to be almost enough. )