Black technology starts from the steel suit

Chapter 200 Chapter 200 Academic Hegemony
Is Wang Feng making things difficult for them?
Really not, after all, he is not bored to this extent.So why did he do it?
The first reason is more complicated, and the simplest one is the sophistication of the world.Even though he was in the domestic academic circle, he couldn't avoid dealing with people in this circle.Although they know that they probably don't have the ability to review manuscripts, but there is still work to be done.

The second reason is much simpler. Foreigners or academic institutions under the control of foreigners and their journals are not necessarily reliable.When the conflict was not so intense, they naturally would not refuse his publication in order to take care of the archway of academic freedom.

But what about later?
As their rising pace is getting faster and faster, the constant weakening of the Lighthouse Kingdom has become a foregone conclusion... It is foreseeable that future conflicts will become more and more intense. If you don’t have a place of your own academically, then don’t say When there is a war, it is like directly revealing one's own hinterland to others.

There is no need to fight anymore, or in other words, you can surrender before fighting, because you will definitely not be able to fight, and you will just go up to deliver food.You can't expect that these journals used to fill water can beat the real guys who have piled up real money.

Therefore, his purpose of doing this is very clear: to support some journals that are still readable, not so serious about flooding, and have a relatively solid foundation, so that they can be relied on in future wars.

At any rate, there is a decent position, and it won't be so ugly if we lose a war in the future.

The lighthouse country promotes hegemony all over the world, which is obvious to all.But we always talk about hegemony and hegemony. In what ways is this hegemony reflected?
Putting aside military, political, and economic considerations, there is a hegemony called cultural hegemony, and another hegemony called technological hegemony.Cultural hegemony is not discussed here. One of the most important manifestations of technological hegemony is actually academic hegemony.

No matter what kind of scientific research results you have, you must write an English version of the paper and publish it on top overseas academic journals, so as to be recognized and praised by the academic community.

As for China, there are some top academic journals, but the number is very small, and most of them are still water journals.

For example, the optical photonics research, run by Hudu Optical Machinery, has an impact factor of 4.7, surpassing OSA's old optical journals Optics express and Optics letter.

There is also biological cell research, run by the Shanghai Academy of Biological Sciences, with an impact factor of more than 15 points, currently ranking first in Asia.

Generally speaking, my country's top academic journals have grown from scratch and are worthy of encouragement. However, the climate has not yet formed, and academic discourse is still controlled by the great powers.

The direct impact of this thing may not be easy to see, but the indirect impact is very huge.How huge is it?It affects the rise and fall of a country.

It may not be easy to understand. Let’s talk about a very hot topic that has been discussed recently: that is why students from two domestic universities are unwilling to develop in China, or to serve the country. Woolen cloth?
They would rather go abroad to wash dishes than do research in China. Is it really just because the academic atmosphere in China is not good?You said that you are a mathematics researcher, what can you discuss with other people?
In fact, it’s not just that, there is also a very, very important reason: that is, it involves the issue of recognition, which is another manifestation of academic hegemony.

In fact, we have made a lot of excellent scientific achievements in China, but why have we won so few international awards?In this regard, in fact, we have always been very inferior. People may think that what we do may not be very good. If we do well enough, people will definitely agree with us.

For such thoughts, Wang Feng can only say: Children, don't be stupid!
In fact, the evaluation of international awards is not mainly based on their contribution and influence on the academic world. International awards, such as the Nobel Prize, are selected by people in the final analysis, so this involves A question of recognition.

If people don't agree with you, no matter how great your achievements are, it will be useless.Could it be that the hybrid rice that feeds so many people is not as good as a cryo-electron microscope?But people just don't give you justice, what can you do?
Scholars in Europe and the United States are inherently more likely than scholars from other countries to win the favor of those awards.This is why everyone is willing to run outside even if they lose their heads.

After winning the award, your achievements will be recognized by the academic community and even the world.It means success and fame, fame and fortune.At that time, no matter where you go to work, or take a position, you will be able to receive far more treatment than ordinary scholars.

This is the charm of cultural hegemony, the charm and embodiment of academic hegemony, a stable channel for exchange of interests between the lighthouse country and the world, and the real trump card for him to become a world talent harvester.

And its benefits don’t end there. For example, if you have any problems that need to be solved, you can use this as a reward to call on scholars around the world to invest resources and help you with your research, and all you need to pay then is an honor, plus A patent fee is simply a bargain.

Relying on these things is the embodiment of their academic hegemony: the top journals have gradually grown up and become a towering tree, and they continue to show their strong and beautiful sides.

Moreover, he is constantly squeezing the nutrients of the land, and while growing vigorously, he also blocks the sunlight, in order to prevent the possibility of other big trees growing up.

Of course, even if there are other small saplings who want to grow up, he is not afraid. He has the strongest lumberjacks in the world to guard him. If a big tree grows up, he can just cut it down.

Don't they understand this truth?

Of course not, in fact Ren Changming understands this matter very well, but he understands it, and there is nothing he can do about it.Without the support of the state, this kind of thing can basically be said to be powerless.

In fact, even with support at the national level, it would still be extremely difficult to reverse this situation.After all, while our economy, culture and the world are connected, we must be prepared to be impacted.

Without a perfect mechanism, without sufficient scientific research funds, without strong academic leaders... It is impossible to talk about becoming a technological power.It is even more nonsense to want to build a top journal.

But today, he saw this hope.

Naturally, those academic editors can't decide such a big matter, so they can only report this matter to him as the editor-in-chief.The moment he saw this journal, he understood the other party's plan.

Wang Feng divided the copyright of this achievement into domestic and foreign, one published abroad and one published domestically.To be honest, this is actually not in line with the rules.But things like rules, in the final analysis, can only restrain ordinary people, and people like this are not in this category.

"This is a stepping stone!" Ren Changming told several other deputy editors.

"Yeah, without this stepping stone, no matter how hard we try, we will never have the hope of reaching the top."

""Nature", "Science", "Physical Review Letters", "Annual of Mathematics"... Which of these top journals has not published a few academic achievements that are enough to affect the course of human history. Without these things, if you want to reach the top, People will not agree." Mai Xiaonong said with a smile.

"Even if you have this thing, it's just an admission ticket. Whether you can really enter this level, in the final analysis, depends on the quality of the papers we include and the weight of the results."

"Without these things, even if we can get the support of Professor Wang in the future, it will be difficult to support us. Once our review is not strict enough, we will include those messy things. Then it will be harmful, not just us reputation, and may even damage other people's academic reputation."

"Yes, people are willing to cooperate with us because they believe in us and believe that we can handle this matter well. It would be very disappointing if we failed them."

"So we will set a tone here now. We will not discuss whether this result is correct or not, but in the future when sending and receiving papers, we must put quality first."

"If we are really determined to become a top publication, this is what we must do. There can be no leeway or anything negotiable. At least when we are still the editor-in-chief, such a thing It absolutely cannot happen.”

"no problem."

"no problem."

...

After Ren Changming finished speaking, several deputy editors echoed.Some of them are naturally very resolute, but some are just... but it is understandable that there will always be good and bad in a group. You can't expect that there will always be people who do things in it, and there will always be some people who do things in it.

But he just needs to be aware of this matter. After all, it is not easy to become a simple worker.This means that you must have very powerful help. Sometimes this kind of help is very useful and can solve many things that are not easy to solve on the surface.

At worst, it will be published in several small journals in the future. Isn't that what the top journals do?

Some things are unavoidable, although at the beginning of the birth of core journals, it was for the convenience of library subscriptions and readers' selection of journals, which means that the starting point is good.

However, at present, major domestic universities and scientific research institutes publish a certain number of papers in core journals as an evaluation indicator for the academic level of students, teachers, and researchers. Impetuousness and even academic corruption played a bad role in fueling the flames.

In recent years, core journals have been increasingly associated with unhealthy trends in academic circles such as academic corruption, power-study transactions, and money-study transactions.In the past two months, the negative news involving the core journals has exposed the hidden rules of the core journals.

From the initial "underground rules" to the current "clearly priced", charging page fees is the most criticized issue among core journals.What's more, paying to publish papers has become an open secret in academia.

Researchers in scientific research institutes, teachers and students in colleges and universities, and employees in technical positions in administrative institutions want to publish papers. Most of them pay a page fee first, ranging from a few hundred yuan to thousands of yuan.

Then, those who are more capable look for ghostwritten papers from within the industry, while those who are less capable tend to find ghostwritten papers from online platforms such as Taobao... These situations are inevitable and are common both at home and abroad.

目前国内学术期刊收取版面费的一般行情是：以4000字文章大约排版2个页码而言，核心期刊版面费低者1000多元，高者3000至5000元，多数在1500元左右。

Overseas ones may be slightly more expensive, ranging from US$5000 to US$10000. There is even an unlimited price limit, and you can guarantee that your ticket will be in the top journals... This category is mostly populated by scammers.

The phenomenon of academic journals charging page fees has a long history.In the mid-80s, my country implemented the corporate management reform of public institutions, and financial allocations for many academic journals were canceled in whole or in part, making it difficult for most academic journals to maintain a balance of revenue and expenditure. In 1988, the Huaguo Association for Science and Technology issued a document recommending that academic journals of all societies charge page fees, which became the beginning of domestic journals charging page fees.

Li Xiaoye, deputy director of the Media Research Center of the Huaguo Publishing Science Research Institute, said bluntly: "It should be said that the core journals are not the initiators of academic journals charging for page fees, but they have largely strengthened the issue of page fees for academic journals." Due to the rapid growth of the demand for papers and the relatively stable number of journals, a serious imbalance between the supply and demand of papers and journals has been caused.

However, some people raise questions, but this problem cannot be solved.No matter where it is, it can't be solved.Foreign countries also raise the entry threshold by raising prices at most, excluding some poor people who have no social status and economic strength.

At present, many domestic colleges and universities have expressly stipulated that graduate students must publish a certain number of articles in core journals during their studies: master students are required to publish 1 to 2 articles, and doctoral students are required to publish 2 to 3 articles, otherwise the degree certificate will not be issued.In addition, university teachers need to publish papers in core journals to evaluate their titles. A young lecturer at BJ Union University told the reporter: “One of the necessary conditions for our school to apply for an associate professor is to have published papers in core journals. This is a threshold.”

Given the existence of this situation, it can be said that the above problems will almost never be solved.

He is not a god, and he cannot solve this problem.Therefore, for this situation, it can only be blocked rather than sparse. Since you want to do something, then the main publications must not have problems.

But sometimes it is unavoidable that someone will be blinded by interests, what should I do?

Then we can only divert these things to the small publications under our banner. This will not offend people, and it can also generate more income: after all, the life of cultural people is not easy.

(End of this chapter)