I Have a Research Support System

August 15th, after one o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday.

Everyone in the research team returned to Shanghai from all over the country and gathered again at Caiyi 216.

Sun Wo was also present, and greeted the others a little cautiously, looked curiously at Mo Wenlin, a new member of the research team for a while, and finally sat next to Wu Feifei.

Tian Qing was more active, and shared with everyone what she had seen during the summer vacation: I went to Tianzhu during the vacation and brought you back some specialties from there.

She lowered her head slightly in a dignified manner, clasped her hands together, said Sawadika, and then took out a few wooden handicrafts with an unknown fragrance from her bag and distributed them to others.

Tianzhu Kingdom, how do you feel? Duan Yun played with the stick-shaped wooden carving in his hand, and asked casually: It is said that there are pickpockets on the roads there, just like the train stations in China more than ten years ago, is it true?

I feel alright, the public security is good, maybe it's because Tianzhu Kingdom is more pro-Chinese. Tian Qing smiled and said: Anyway, I recommend you to go for fun, but it's a bit hot in summer.

Wu Feifei interjected: Did you see a shemale?

Tian Qing seemed to be very interested in this topic, and said with great interest: Of course, I have watched two transvestite performances, and I have to say that it is really difficult to distinguish a transvestite from a normal woman just from the appearance...

Everyone chatted for a while, and then they were summoned to 218 by Wei Xingsi.

Wei Xingsi looked around and made a high-profile statement: Very well, everyone in the research group is here. The first group meeting after the holidays will focus on the future work plan. The overall performance of our group last semester The article is very good, I hope everyone will continue to work hard and post more articles!

Wu Feifei first reported: 2D perovskite materials have published many articles in the past year. I plan to write a review plan for AM to review the recent progress of 2D perovskite. I plan to...

Xu Qiu secretly analyzed from the side, Wu Feifei is planning to do her old job again.

Although submitting for a review generally does not look at the previous work, but only the quality of the review itself, it is easier to be recognized by editors or reviewers if there is support for the previous work.

For example, now Feifei Wu has three works in the field of 2D perovskites, two of which have been accepted, one is AEM, one is JACS, and the other is just submitted to ACSAMI. If she writes this review proposal, The success rate of submitting AM will be 20-30% higher than that of amateurs in this field.

In fact, Wu Feifei was forced to make such a choice.

The development of a new system is aimed at efficiency. Now she is the only one in the group, and at most one more master student, Sun Wo, who she is not optimistic about, feels a little powerless, and she must not be able to compete with several large groups abroad.

If she follows the trend, she can't find a good entry point for the time being. Unlike the field of organic photovoltaics, perovskite is a hot field with many peers, and most systems will not involve complex synthesis, which means that the article The cycle is short, and many ideas are waiting for you to think of. When you look back, other people's articles have already been published.

After much deliberation, it is still safest to write a review. After all, I published an EES review before, and at that time I published it as an amateur in the field.

Wu Feifei would sometimes sigh, if Xu Qiu had chosen her instead of Chen Wanqing when she first came to the research group, maybe her scientific research path would have changed accordingly.

She doesn't think that her scientific research ability is inferior to Chen Wanqing's. If she can join forces with Xu Qiu, and the few people who join the research group later will probably follow along to make perovskites, then she will compete with several perovskites in the world. Group wrist wrestling is also very possible.

For example, the current Ruddlesden–Popper (RP) type two-dimensional perovskite, and later the Dion-Jacobson (DJ) type two-dimensional perovskite, may be renamed Xu-Chen (XC) type two-dimensional perovskite. .

Unfortunately, there is no if.

Wei Xingsi didn't have much opinion on Wu Feifei's choice. Originally, he had suggested her to do this before, so he immediately nodded in agreement.

The JMCA article Duan Yun submitted before was successfully accepted, but the ACSAMI article Thermoelectric Devices Added by One- and Two-Dimensional Materials submitted later was rejected by the editor for the reason of insufficient novelty during the summer vacation, and it was directly typed without being submitted for review return.

During the holiday, Wei Xingsi did not force Duan Yun to revise the manuscript, and Duan Yun naturally did not take the initiative to do it, so the matter of revising the manuscript was put after the vacation.

Of course, Duan Yun is not under too much pressure now, he already has four essays in hand, and he will not worry about graduation.

Duan Yun's current main task is to change the format of the articles he submitted to ACSAMI from ACS to RSC.

Wei Xingsi planned to vote for the journal RSC Adv. in the three districts. If he couldn't win again, he would just let the job rot in his hands.

For Wei Xingsi, RSC Adv. is already the lower limit of his lower limit. If the manuscript is rejected and the article is submitted to the fourth district of SCI, even if it is published, it will not benefit him at all, and it will consume energy. Change the article again.

In fact, when the field of organic photovoltaics opened up and a large number of AM-level articles were published, the ordinary second-level articles were basically useless to Wei Xingsi, and it was nothing more than increasing the number of articles he published.

But the number of articles is meaningless unless the number of articles is very high. For example, if you post 200 articles and 250 articles, there is not much difference from outsiders. If there is a difference between 200 articles and 1,000 articles, then you can compare.

Moreover, each article is coded one by one, and there is basically no way to cheat. Copying and pasting will definitely not work.

Even if the experiment goes very well, and all of them are filled with water and sent to Communication, an article needs to be 3,000 words long, and pictures, reference citations, supporting information and other matters must be handled well. Three articles in one month are already top-notch, and it is only a year. 36 articles.

This is very idealistic. In reality, if you can publish more than one article in the second district every month, it will be very, very productive.

After all, the requirement for doctoral students to graduate from Shanghai University is to publish two papers in the second area of ​​SCI in three years.

Therefore, it is basically impossible to pile up the number of articles in a short time.

Basically, those who published more than a thousand articles are the kind of old monsters in their 60s and 70s who have countless students and disciples, and then rely on the naming of their disciples and grandchildren's articles to get so many articles.

In addition to the task of modifying the format of the article, Wei Xingsi assigned an additional job to Duan Yun: Write a review in the field of thermoelectricity.

This is also to let him finally make some contributions to the group.

So, use the waste heat?

After all, Duan Yun will graduate in less than a year.

If you open a new project pit, it’s okay if the work is published, but what if half of the work is done after a year?

Duan Yun definitely disagrees with the words of delaying the completion, he has already fulfilled the graduation requirements, so in the end, it will probably be nothing.

It's better to let him write a review, at least the review can be published anyway, it's just that the journals published are different.

Tian Qing began to report: Ms. Feng Shengdong's data has been obtained, and I plan to organize the data next, the target journal JPCL.

You plan to vote for JPCL... Wei Xingsi thought for a while, and said, Try to vote for Adv. Sci. first, and then consider JPCL if you get rejected.

Tian Qing had no objection and nodded in response.

Xu Qiu can probably guess Wei Xingsi's thoughts. Although Adv. Sci. is a new journal, the real-time impact factor can be found now. It is around 9, and the probability of breaking 10 in the future is very high. After all, Wiley's launch of this new journal is a benchmark The major AM sub-journals like AEM will basically not run in the first district journals in the future, and JPCL is only a journal of the first district and the second district.

Moreover, JPCL is more focused on physics. Although Tian Qing's research is indeed biased towards physics, Wei Xingsi has a background in chemistry and materials. Unless it is absolutely necessary, he prefers to submit to journals that are biased towards chemistry and materials, because of the writing ideas and reviewers. The ideas are relatively similar. If you submit to a physics journal, who knows what wonderful reviewers you will encounter.

Sun Wo: Sister Wu Feifei gave me some literature on 2D perovskite before the holiday, and today I will make a literature report...

Xu Qiu listened casually off the court, but Sun Wo's current performance was still a little nervous, and he stumbled when speaking, which was similar to the state of Sun Wo when he first joined the group.

Probably because of the relatively long vacation time, a buffer transition period is needed to start working again. After all, Sun Wo has been away since almost May, and it has been three months now.

Wei Xingsi said in a slow voice: The literature is very good, you follow Wu Feifei to work hard, and strive to achieve results as soon as possible.

He was more tolerant towards Sun Wo. On the one hand, Sun Wo was only a master student, so naturally he couldn't follow the requirements of the Ph.D.

Chen Wanqing reported: In terms of work, I mainly complete the two systems IEICO-4F and IEICO-4Cl. After finishing speaking, she glanced at Xu Qiu and added: Then, if Xu Qiu needs help, I'll help too.

Wei Xingsi didn't think too much, just nodded and said, Yes.

Chen Wanqing is also a Ph.D. student and is about to graduate, so she can just do the work at hand step by step, and there is no need to make new pits.

And after Xu Qiu became the small boss of the research group, she didn't need to hand over work to others, and Duan Yun still had the problem of handing over work to Wu Feifei.

Usually, the submission time of the doctoral dissertation is the beginning of the second semester of the final year, after which plagiarism checks, review, and defense are required. Therefore, it is time to start planning and writing the doctoral thesis in the first semester of the third year of PhD.

Otherwise, if you start writing in the next semester, you will be in a hurry, and you may not be able to keep up with the defense. At that time, no matter how many articles you post, you will have to postpone the completion.

Speaking of it, the time for three-year doctoral students is still relatively tight, especially for doctoral students whose research directions have changed significantly during their doctoral and master's periods. In the first year, they must be familiar with the current field and new experimental instruments, and do experiments in the middle year. , Posting articles, and writing a graduation thesis and looking for a job in the last year.

The actual working time is only a little over a year.

Because of this, the probability of a doctoral student in Shanghai's comprehensive university being postponed is quite high, reaching more than 30%.

If Xu Qiu hadn't brought Chen Wanqing up, according to the situation of his senior sister when he first joined the group, there was a high probability that she would have to postpone her graduation for half a year, or even a year. After all, the graduation requirements in Wei Xingsi's group were relatively high.

Considering that the doctoral period is too short, some colleges and universities limit the doctoral years of science and engineering to four years, such as a university in the southwest of Shanghai, yes, Jiaotong University in Shanghai.

Maybe it’s compensation in disguise. The welfare of doctoral students at Jiaotong University is better than that of Shanghai University. The monthly salary of doctoral students in science and engineering is about 3K-5K, and the outstanding doctoral students also have the opportunity to go to 6K. Compared with Shanghai University For comprehensive universities, the general level here is almost 2K-3K, and occasionally it can be opened to 4K.

Of course, the salary of doctoral students is definitely not comparable to that of ordinary white-collar workers in Shanghai.

But in fact, the tutor paid more than that.

For each master's and doctoral student, the supervisor has to pay an additional training fee, which may be different in different schools and departments.

For doctoral students, Shanghai Jiaotong University pays 200,000 yuan once every four years, and Shanghai Jiaotong University pays 50,000 yuan per year.

Regarding the news about the training fee, Xu Qiu heard Wei Xingsi accidentally. He didn’t know about it before, thinking that it was only the doctoral students who paid the tuition unilaterally. He didn’t expect that the tutor would also pay the money, and the amount was quite a lot. If there is no money Group, can't even recruit doctoral students.

At that time, the first thing Xu Qiu thought of was a similar situation. The employee’s monthly salary was 10K, and he received 7.5K in cash. The company paid 14.5K, and there was also a difference of 7K in the middle.

Although the price difference will be partly returned to employees in another form, it is not as good as direct cash.

Moreover, according to the current trend, the price difference will become larger and larger in the future...