Rebirth of the God-level Xueba

Tu Xian pedaled his bicycle quickly, shouting "Give me a favor" while rushing into the courtyard where the Department of Chemical Engineering of Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel was hung.

A few students joking with their books hurriedly occupied the two sides, watching Tu Xian racing back to the office area, and using a difficult step to get out of the car and ran into the office.

"What's wrong?" The students passing by were curious.

Tu Xian himself is even more curious.

He held a letter in his hand. The envelope was wider than the fat man's face. The front was full of tadpole writing, and the edges were wet with sweat from Tu Xian's palms.

It is impossible not to be nervous. Although this is the fifth paper in Tu Xian's life, it is the first time he has written it in English and tried to publish it in a foreign journal.

"Biochemical System Ecology", a standard journal.

Tu Xian believes that in Beijing, there will still be school teachers who do not know what they are. But he was convinced that within a few years, it would become a high standard for the scientific community to evaluate the level of papers.

This is the inevitable trend of development. Similar citation standards are also being developed in China. The lead is the Beijing Library. However, compared with the American Institute of Scientific Information itself and the accumulation established in 1961, let alone want to replace it, it is not keeping up with others. Easy. Countries all over the world have citation databases and scientific citation indexes. Some countries have started to do it in the 1960s and 1970s, and they have not surpassed them. You can imagine the heavy barriers.

Of course, it does not create papers itself, it is only included papers and journals.

The vast majority of researchers just hope to put their papers in a valuable journal.

For example, "Biochemical System Ecology", in Tu Xian's view, is a high-end publication in the field of chemistry and biology. Compared with it, the relevant Chinese journals of the same period are as weak as snails. After all, these publications have been suspended for several years. Some journals that have been suspended for more than ten years are still as fragile as babies.

It will not be until 20 years later that there will be good periodicals on the world stage.

In China in 1983, the only way a researcher wanted to be on the world stage was to write an English paper.

Tu Xian did this, and hopes to be the first teacher in our school to publish a paper in a foreign biological journal.

Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel is a traditional metallurgical college. It was established in the 1950s by merging the metallurgical majors of six universities including Tsinghua University. It is a powerful college with the slogan of "Beijing University, Tsinghua University, Steel Youngest".

With the progress of the times, the Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel is also actively expanding, and it is imperative to establish a dedicated biology department.

Tu Xian himself likes biology, and coming to Beijing Iron and Steel Institute is also the result of passive distribution. Therefore, when he heard that there will be a biology major in the future, he was also very happy and devoted himself to experimenting all day.

In this regard, the school has also given support. They want to change the name of the school to "Beijing University of Science and Technology". Naturally, there must be a full range of science and technology majors. The expansion of the scope of research by school teachers is most in line with this direction.

Tu Xian's level is also very good. The first few papers have been published in high-end domestic journals. He is considered to be the best among young lecturers. With his undergraduate diploma, if it goes well, he will be able to evaluate associate professors for up to two years. .

Of course, whether it can be judged depends on various soft and hard powers.

A paper published in a foreign journal will definitely bring the best opportunity for this major during this period.

Switching to the metallurgical major of the Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel, I want to comment on an associate professor. Publishing articles in foreign journals is a basic requirement. Only three or five articles can be taken seriously. It is the Department of Chemical Engineering where Tu Xian is currently located. There are more than a dozen papers published in foreign journals. After all, this is Beijing, China's best capital, political, cultural and technological center.

However, the biology majors that have not yet been established in the Institute of Iron and Steel are different. There are only a few people who switched to biology, but none of them published papers in foreign journals. Those who are in the front always have a lot of discounts.

Tu Xian rubbed his hands, and muttered "Heavenly God and Buddha Bless" in his heart. He tore open the envelope and read it eagerly.

Tu Xian didn't watch it in the mail room, just because he was worried that the result would be bad, or he would lose his way.

Hiding in his laboratory and office, Tu Xian can express his heart's content, whether it is excitement or disappointment, or a gesture of prayer.

The short letter was all in English, and Tu Xian read it stumblingly, and then saw the comments of the two reviewers:

Modify the text!

Although the opinions of the two reviewers were the same, their evaluations were completely different. One of the reviewers simply said the judgment, while the other eloquently said a long paragraph, and then pointed out several major errors in his paper.

Tu Xian took a deep breath and fell into a chair, only to realize that his back was soaked.

"It didn't pass immediately. It's not bad to revise the text..." Tu Xian smiled, and for a moment he was a little worried.

His English proficiency is extremely average, and he has already asked an expert to help him when he writes it like this. If he has to make changes and find someone else again, he will owe a lot of favor.

"If you owe it, you owe it." Tu Xian gritted his teeth, folded the letter and stuffed it into his briefcase, went out to support the bicycle and went to the small shop.

When he got to the place, Tu Xian took out all the money he had, a total of eight yuan and six cents, and bought two cans of luncheon meat. The remaining money was just enough to buy two catties of pastries.

Tu Xian carefully selected the intact pastries and watched the female owner of the small shop tying them neatly with hemp paper and hemp rope, and then took out the cloth bag for buying vegetables and put them in, before cycling towards Go to the family building.

Nowadays, when visiting relatives and friends, one or two catties of pastries is a very valuable gift. Under normal circumstances, even if you are not empty-handed, a few cents of apples is fine.

Canned meat is only brought when you ask for help. Canned braised meat with pure meat is too expensive and not affordable. So Tu Xian bought luncheon meat, which was a waste.

Two minutes later, Tu Xian parked the car in the carport in the family area, carrying a cloth bag, with a smile on his face, walking through the small garden, to the number 35, and banging the door lock.

"Here." The sound of the child running immediately came. When the door opened, a boy with tall legs was seen looking at Tu Xian and the cloth bag in his hand.

"Is Professor Deer here?" Tu Xian touched the child's head and handed him a piece of candy.

The boy nodded vigorously and said, "Grandpa is at home."

"Can you lead me?" Tu Xian bent over and smiled.

Professor Lu is a retired professor of the Iron and Steel Institute and has studied abroad. Due to poor health, he was not re-employed after retiring and turned to be a translator. The translated works include not only metallurgical textbooks but also literary works. He is recognized as a master of English in the Iron and Steel Institute.

Only retired professors like Professor Lu can find help for Tu Xian. Other teachers have their own jobs and don't have time to sleep every day, so how embarrassed to let someone help themselves to change the text.

Of course, Tu Xian was not the only one who asked Professor Lu to change the text. When he entered the living room, he saw another familiar face and said hello. Both of them looked down at the books they were carrying with them.

Time is precious, how can it be wasted in senseless chats.

Publishing high-level papers is a rigid requirement of higher-level universities, and it is also a rigid requirement of universities for classrooms. How the foreign science community views the level of the Chinese scientific community is also based on the level and number of papers published by Chinese scholars. As far as China's current state is concerned, so-called high-level papers must be published in foreign journals.

Half of the teachers in the Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel who want to publish papers abroad, but their English level is not enough, will come to Professor Lu, and people from outside the school often show up. Tu Xian has met his colleagues here more than once.

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, one person came out from the study inside, smiled and thanked, nodded to the two again, and went out.

The middle-aged teacher who came in front quickly got up, and at the same time squeezed a smile and said, "Professor Deer, I am here again."

"Come in." Professor Lu's voice was hoarse and did not show up.

Tu Xian raised his head, then waited outside with peace of mind.

This time, he waited for half an hour before he was able to enter.

Professor Lu still smiled and said, "Come in". His thin body was sitting behind the large old-fashioned writing desk. His forehead was blocked by a lamp. From the door, it looked like he was wearing a flower ling.

"Professor Lu, there is a language problem. After thinking about it, I can only find you." Tu Xian placed the cloth bag on the chest of drawers that entered the door. There were already two bags of things there, probably left by the person in front. .

Tu Xian thought for a while, but did not take out the contents of the bag. He sat down at the writing desk, put down the file bag, pulled out the letter from Biochemical System Ecology to himself, and pushed it to Professor Lu, saying: "This is a letter sent back to me by the journal, saying that I want me to modify the text. "

"Oh, let me have a look." After Professor Lu retired, he would sit at home and work every day, usually during the day to help people change things. When he was free, he was busy translating manuscripts. The family members persuaded him several times and met him. Persevere, just let him.

The reply was very short, and Professor Lu scanned it and read it.

Out of responsibility, he read it again and nodded: "Xiaotu, congratulations, this article seems to be published."

"Yes, it's just how to change the language, I don't have a bottom line."

"Did you bring the manuscript of the paper?"

"Take it."

"Okay, you come to my side, I said to you..." Professor Lu took the manuscript and read it again, found a red pen from the pen holder, and began to draw it.

Tu Xian watched and remembered, as serious as a student.

The manuscript of Tu Xian looked like more than a thousand words. Professor Lu helped to make some corrections and explained the rest, so he asked Tu Xian to sit down and modify it himself.

Professor Lu himself saw that his changes were fairly smooth~www.wuxiaspot.com~, so he picked up the journal's reply letter and read it.

After a while, Professor Lu suddenly smiled and said, "I guess, this second reviewer is also a Chinese."

"Huh? Why?"

"Look at the grammar, although it seems to be the same, but the idiom is British and the grammar is American, which means that people who are not from an English-speaking country, look at the paragraph structure, is it very smooth?" Professor Deer perennial As an interpreter, and with students, I took the tone of investigation at this time.

Tu Xian nodded slowly and said, "It's pretty smooth."

Professor Lu laughed and said: "You just think it is smooth because the structure of this paragraph is Chinese. On the contrary, foreigners write it not so smoothly. So, this second reviewer is probably a Chinese."

Tu Xian was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and said, "I didn't expect that I ran into my own hands, no wonder his comments were so detailed."

"Well, it’s a serious review. However, it may not necessarily be from our mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan compatriots are also possible. If you want to know, just ask. Although it is anonymous to each other, the journal Biochemical System Ecology, There should not be many reviewers in Asia."

He does not mean that. Professor Lu just said casually, but Tu Xian remembered it.

He worked alone in the Iron and Steel Institute, and when he was looking for help from his biology majors, he always went to other schools. Since they are not familiar people, it seems to be a good choice to talk to a reviewer of a high-end journal.