I Have a Research Support System

The review document for the associate professor to become a full-time member needs to issue a review opinion at the end, including the evaluation of the applicant, the 100-point scoring system in several dimensions such as scientific research and teaching, and the final opinion.

Xu Qiu created a new WORD file. Based on the situation in Jin Dengping's application, he first wrote some simple comments, which add up to about 100 words and are some formulas: The applicant has made quite a lot of academic achievements in the past five years. As the first author Or corresponding author status, published a total of 14 SCI articles...

Next, is the specific scoring of each assessment. Xu Qiu gave more than 90 points. After all, Kingden Square's performance in all aspects is not bad. The final average score is 92 points, which means it is in the excellent gear.

The final opinion is it is recommended that the applicant be approved as a full-time application.

After finalizing the review comments, Xu Qiu went to 218 with the paper materials and the WORD files copied to the USB flash drive.

As soon as he entered the door, Wei Xingsi said with a smile on his face: Xu Qiu, you are here. I was going to see you for something... That associate professor has become a full-time professor and applied for your review? How is he?

Overall, it's not bad, Xu Qiu briefly commented: Fourteen SCI articles in five years, in addition, teaching, training students, etc. are also qualified...

Then let him pass. Wei Xingsi nodded, and added: There should be a review fee of several hundred yuan after that. Come here, and I'll pass it on to you.

Xu Qiu said hmm, then handed the paper materials and the USB flash drive to Teacher Wei: I have written the specific opinions and scoring in Word.

Okay, let's do this first. Wei Xingsi put his hands behind his back, tapped the desk with the knuckles of his middle finger and index finger, and changed the topic: There is good news, your Natural·Energy article, before Didn’t there be any movement for more than a month, so I sent a letter to the editor to remind me, and then I just received a reply from the editor. He said that he is still waiting for the opinion of the last senior expert reviewer, and he sent a total of five for review. Reviewer, the four comments currently returned to him are all positive.

We're lucky this time. According to the current situation, we estimate that the final review comments will come back in a week or two at most. Wei Xingsi paused, and said excitedly: This Nature·Energy is a big The probability of being able to win the draft!

That's really good news. Xu Qiu was also quite happy.

Now that the editor has said so, he must be more optimistic about this work at present. As long as the last senior expert does not make any mistakes, then the opinion of the final article should be a major or minor revision, and then only the reviewer’s question should be corrected. After everything is resolved, send it back for another round of review, and the article will almost be officially accepted.

Although it is easy to submit and reject such a large article in seconds, the card is more strict at the beginning, but basically as long as it is submitted for review and the manuscript is not rejected for the first time, the probability of being rejected after revision will be relatively much lower. , especially if there are no negative comments in the review comments.

Unlike some small articles, which may play tricks, first make a major revision, and after you have worked hard to revise for a week and a half, you may still be rejected when you send it back, and you can only switch to it in the end. It is simply the king of torture.

The senior sister encountered such a situation when she was in her master's degree. At that time, she submitted to a journal in the three districts at the beginning. Submission, major revision, rejection after major revision, resubmission, and major revision again...

It took more than half a year, and the article was finally published after several twists and turns.

This Natural Energy and the Joule review article, it is estimated that the results will be published years ago... Wei Xingsi rested his chin on one hand, thought for a while, and said: I think we can organize like Gong Yuanjiang before. An academic exchange meeting will be held in December. It just so happens that I will discuss and connect with Gong Yuanjiang about the application for our group's key projects next year. I can also get some information by meeting with other colleagues. Xu Qiu, what do you think? ?”

I think it's okay. Xu Qiu naturally had no objection.

That's all right. I recently sent a letter to these people in China to ask if they have time. Wei Xingsi paused and continued: In addition, I will also contact Feng Shengdong to see if he is free. If he can Come here and tell others about laser analysis methods such as TAS, I guess these people in China are still interested, and most research groups do not have the channels to test this.”

Xu Qiu nodded. He found that Wei Xingsi became more confident after learning that Nature·Energy had a high probability of winning the draft. a feeling of.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that in the field of organic photovoltaics, it is possible to publish an experimental work type in a major sub-journal of Nature, that is, an article in the format of Article, Communication, etc., its weight or meaning is very close to that of Published in the main journal of CNS, which means that this job is one of the top jobs in the field.

The main reason is that there are more and more scientific researchers in the world, and good jobs are emerging one after another. However, the main journal of CNS has only three journals. In order to ensure the gold content and influence, the number of accepted articles cannot be expanded arbitrarily every year, so it will inevitably choose the best among the best. , make some trade-offs.

How to make a trade-off?

Journal companies are most concerned about maintaining their own academic influence, so they will inevitably tend to chase hot spots.

In other words, jobs from popular fields, or fields that are easily intersected with other fields, will be particularly sought after by CNS.

When they publish such articles, they are more likely to be noticed by more scientific researchers and continue to increase their influence.

A typical example is graphene. Because of its excellent physical and chemical properties, this material can be used in almost any material and chemical related fields.

For example, in the perovskite field and hotspot fields in Wei Xingsi's group, there are graphene figures. Even in the field of organic photovoltaics, Xu Qiu has seen some people rubbing graphene as a hotspot, and wrote a few small articles in the second district.

Therefore, if you want to publish a comprehensive journal like CNS, unpopular fields will definitely not be able to compete with popular fields.

For articles of the same level, popular fields can be published in the main journal of Nature, and unpopular fields may only be published in the major sub-journals of Nature under the corresponding category. If it is a very unpopular field, try to submit For the Nature series, it will either be typed into the corresponding Nature sub-journal, or it will be typed into a comprehensive journal such as Nature Communication.

Because of this, researchers in some unpopular fields are unwilling to go to CNS to join in the fun, but to form their own small circles and enclose themselves. For example, in physics-related fields, they have launched many journals that only include basic research in physics. The impact factor is not high, but the influence in the circle is very high.

In addition, in the field of organic photovoltaics, in recent years, most of the articles at the level of CNS or the major sub-journals of Nature were published by foreign research groups, mainly concentrated in the beautiful country.

Among them, the bosses of many research groups are Chinese. As mentioned earlier, around 2000, many people went abroad to find opportunities for breakthroughs. Some people chose to return to China directly after breakthroughs. The door was abducted.

At present, there are only a handful of these research groups in the field of organic photovoltaics in China that have published the major sub-journals of Nature in recent years, and the one that can be named is the former Xu Zhenghong research group.

Therefore, if Xu Qiu's Nature·Energy can be published, it will definitely cause a sensation in the domestic organic photovoltaic field.

After all, even the top scientific researchers at the level of Yangtze River and Jieqing do not publish articles at the level of Nature as a major sub-journal or the main journal of CNS.

In the scientific research circle, it is very difficult to continuously produce high-quality results. Many people drive high and low. They may publish an article on Nature during their postdoctoral period or when they first started teaching, and then rely on an article on Nature to be published. After leaving the Jieqing, there will be no scientific research work of the same level.

When this happens, it may be a matter of luck, such as good luck before or bad luck afterwards, or it may be due to laziness. After all, there are many temptations in life.

Moreover, for a pyramid-shaped upgrade structure, the more difficult it is to go up, so a small number of people will choose to be comfortable, for example, with ideas like this:

Now that I am a Jie Qing, I simply stay here for retirement. Anyway, I can't get up, but I can't fall down either. Every year, I write a few articles to complete scientific research tasks, and then drink tea every day and occasionally go out What a pleasant life to have a meeting.

After roughly deciding on the organization of the meeting, Wei Xingsi asked Xu Qiu again: How is the situation at the Blue River recently?

Xu Qiu replied: It's okay, now Chen Wanqing and Han Jiaying go to do experiments every week, and the two scraping jobs can now write articles. It's just that I have more things to do this week, and I don't write many articles.

I understand, Wei Xingsi nodded, and continued to ask, What about the Blue River Optoelectronics Company, how is the material development going?

Xu Qiu replied: ITIC, IEICO-4F and other materials have been developed. So far, there are two orders. One is Ma Weiwei from Ancheng Jiaotong University, and the other is Bao Yuanyou from Jinghang University.

The second order was just a few days ago. Bao Yuanyou's research group was relatively rich and bought a gram of ITIC directly.

Now non-fullerene materials like ITIC have been spread in domestic organic photovoltaic circles. Even if many researchers did not mainly work on non-fullerenes before, now they see the hot scene of non-fullerenes and let students buy some. If you come back to try the materials, maybe if you mix them with your own materials casually, there will be some wonderful chemical reaction?

Ma Weiwei... Wei Xingsi repeated the name: I didn't expect her to return to China.