"What? "Nature" has passed? That's great! ”

Li Changqing's excited voice came from the other end of the phone.

Although Li Changqing did not sign this paper, the experiment was done by his team, and he himself gave a lot of support.

You know, his experimental team hasn't published a top journal paper for several years.

Publishing a Nature article at this time is also very beneficial for the future development of his laboratory.

Not to mention, he also took this opportunity to make friends with Pang Xuelin, who is destined to have a significant influence in the Chinese academic community in the future.

After a few years, when Li Changqing is ready to be rated as an academician, this favor alone can improve his chances by one or two percent.

"Oh, by the way, Professor Pang, is this a Letter or an Article?"

Li Changqing asked.

Letters, or so-called "correspondence", are initial presentations of original research results that are of interest to researchers in other fields.

Article is a long paper, which is a more comprehensive and thorough introduction to a certain research work, and represents a significant improvement in people's understanding of a certain thing.

The Nature page only allows about 2 "Article" papers and about 16 "Letter" papers to be published per week.

As a result, the competition for "Article" papers is more intense.

In fact, many "Letter" papers were originally submitted as "Article" papers, but were shortened based on the advice of Nature editors.

Pang Xuelin said: "It's Article, not a word has been changed!" ”

"Awesome!"

Li Changqing couldn't help but praise.

In addition to the data citing the results of the experimental group, the rest of the content of this paper was written by Pang Xuelin himself, and he was able to change "Nature" word for word, which is enough to show the level and weight of this paper.

After chatting with Li Changqing, Pang Xuelin called several other people in the team one by one to inform them.

Needless to say, the excitement of those experimental dogs, even the associate professor, who was the first author, was very excited.

That associate professor is almost forty years old, and after so many years, it is the first time that an article can be published in Nature.

This article is a weighty weight for him to select professors and independently form his own experimental team.

……

Editorial office, Nature, London, UK.

"Carl, why don't we make a bet to see if it is more likely to have the same name and surname or if it is really Professor Pang Xuelin. If you think about it, Pang Xuelin is now conducting his Ponzi geometry seminar at Jiang University, and I heard that he is still sorting out the teaching materials of Ponzi geometry, so how can he still have the energy to do any more research on carbon nanotubes. ”

Richard Gallagher, editor-in-chief of the Life Sciences editorial group, sat at the desk of Carl Zimelis, editor-in-chief of the natural sciences group, with a cup of coffee.

Tsimmelis smiled and said, "Do you think there is a good chance that a genius will do the same outstanding research in different fields, or that he will be in the same university, with the same name, and at the same time a professor, but he will belong to two different people?" ”

Richard Gallagher was slightly stunned.

The editors of papers in the journal Nature are divided into two groups: the life sciences group and the natural sciences group.

The head of the life sciences group is Richard Gallagher, an immunologist; The head of the natural sciences group is Carl Zimelis, a materials scientist.

At this time, the editors of the editorial department discussed one by one, smiling and watching the two bigwigs slap each other.

During this time, the paper "Preparation and Characterization of High-purity Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes" caused quite a stir in the editorial office of Nature.

Why!

Naturally, it is related to the author of this paper, Pang Xuelin.

The name Pang Xuelin is currently in the academic world, and there are really few people who have not heard of him.

On the one hand, because of his age, and on the other hand, because of his academic achievements in mathematics.

Not to mention anything else, the application of his Ponzi geometry theory in solving nonlinear partial differential equations has become a hot topic in the entire scientific community.

Even many scholars in non-mathematical fields are working on his paper.

After all, the problem of solving nonlinear partial differential equations can be said to be the field where mathematics and natural science are most closely combined.

But such a professor with the same name and surname as the big man in the mathematics world and still working in the same school, suddenly submitted a research paper on carbon nanotubes to Nature, and this paper also has a very high standard.

In particular, the experimental methods used in the paper and the results presented can be regarded as the most outstanding achievements in the field of carbon nanotubes in the past decade.

Therefore, whether the author of this paper was written by Pang Xuelin has become the focus of attention of the editorial department of Nature.

In the past few days, such controversies have occurred several times among the editors.

In the end, even the two editors-in-chief were involved.

Carl Zimelis smiled: "Well, this paper has just been reviewed, I just sent him a receipt email to ask, wouldn't it be clear!" ”

As he spoke, Tsimmelis ignored Gallagher's reaction and sent an email directly.

It's just that what Tsimmelis didn't expect was that only a few minutes later, he received a reply from Pang Xuelin: It's me!

Zimelis shrugged his shoulders at Gallagher and smiled, "It looks like we don't have to argue, I won." ”

Gallagher's eyes flashed with incredulity, and he muttered, "How is this possible?!" ”

……

Pang Xuelin naturally didn't know about the controversy that happened in the journal Nature, and even if he did, he would probably only laugh.

In fact, the approval of the paper did not cause too many waves in his heart.

After all, this paper has long been tested in another world and has become a classic experiment in the field of carbon nanomaterials.

Failure to approve the manuscript only indicates that the quality of the editors and reviewers of Nature is problematic.

Sure enough, it was as expected.

The next morning, the paper was published on Nature Online as scheduled.

At the same time, the official website of Jiang University also released relevant news and congratulated Pang Xuelin and his team.

After all, Jiang University only has about ten CNS-level papers a year, and most of them are Letters, and it is not easy to publish an article in Nature, even for those professors at the Changjiang Scholar level.

In the days that followed, there were also some media reports about Pang Xuelin's publication in Nature.

However, in addition to a certain amount of attention in the academic circle, it did not cause much repercussions outside the circle.

After all, in the eyes of the public, it doesn't seem to be a big deal to publish a paper in a top journal with Pang Xuelin's academic achievements.

Even if this paper has nothing to do with Pang Xuelin's own major, it has nothing to do with it at all.

Originally, this matter was about to pass silently, but Pang Xuelin himself didn't expect that a questioning article that suddenly appeared on the Internet pushed him to the forefront.

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