Chapter 481: Suddenly I feel that the grade of the journal "Nature" has become a lot lower

Early on Tuesday morning, Xu Qiu came directly to Wei Xingsi's office.
At this moment, Wei Xingsi was making tea. When he saw Xu Qiu, he smiled and greeted him proactively, "Is there something wrong? Did the device I made yesterday produce good results?"
"No, the devices are still placed in a vacuum. They will not be able to open the cabin for testing until the afternoon..." Xu Qiu hesitated for a while and chose to speak directly: "I want to talk to Teacher Wei about early graduation."
"Graduate early..." Wei Xingsi's smile froze, and his face changed a little, as if he was a little surprised, but then he was relieved as if he was relieved: "Well...Xu Qiu, what do you think? Let's listen. ."
"If possible, I would like to graduate... two years earlier." After careful consideration, Xu Qiu felt that if he graduated three years early, on the one hand, the pressure on schoolwork would be greater, and on the other hand, it would be too shocking. , The school procedures may not be easy to handle, and two years in advance, it will be just right, which is equivalent to directly granting a doctorate degree to a master's degree student. There is still a precedent for this.
"Two years in advance..." Wei Xingsi put down the teapot and touched his chin. After a while, he said, "I have no problem in principle. Of course, for early graduation, you still need to apply to the department and graduate school. I can help if you encounter any problems during the application process at that time."
"Thank you Teacher Wei." Xu Qiu politely thanked him, and he was also relieved. If there really is a conflict with Wei Xingsi and the trouble is, it will not end very well. Fortunately, Wei Xingsi does not "do not know how to praise". .
Wei Xingsi waved his hand and smiled freely: "This is mainly what you have won yourself. After all, you have been in the research group since your junior year, and it has been nearly two years since your full budget. In the past two years, your contribution to the research group No matter it is me or the other members of the research group, everyone is there for all to see... If I stop you and prevent you from graduating early, I can’t justify it. By the way, what are your plans after graduation?"
Xu Qiu thought for a while and replied: "In the general direction, I will definitely continue to engage in scientific research, but I have not figured out whether it is going abroad to find postdoctoral positions or other ways.
"Hmm..." Wei Xingsi made the tea, poured out the water, filled two cups of tea, handed a cup to Xu Qiu, and said, "I recommend that you stay in school. You have academic achievements like yours now. , As long as the article in Science or Nature is published, there is no problem with the probability of staying in school after your PhD. Staying in school first and then going abroad as a visiting scholar will not affect your ability to study abroad. experience."
Wei Xingsi is right. If there is an article on CNS, plus an already published one of "Nature", two articles of "Joule", and some top magazines such as AM, such academic achievements, even if It is a top domestic university such as Mordu University, and it is not too difficult to stay on to get a faculty position.
Moreover, there is no need to take the wild path of instructors, and they can stay in school purely on their own academic strength.
There is even a chance to get a distinguished full professor and a doctoral supervisor.
After all, when Wei Xingsi brought in from the beautiful country as a "Qing Qian", the best article in his hand was AM, and Xu Qiu's current academic achievements and AM grade work were the lower limit of his published articles.
Although Teacher Wei mainly took advantage of the early days of returning to China, the situation will definitely become more complicated when Xu Qiu graduates, but now the domestic high-end scientific research talents are still scarce. As long as they have dazzling academic achievements, they will become major universities. The object of contention.
Moreover, Xu Qiu still has more than two years to go. If the performance of the organic photovoltaic field can reach a new high, a CNS is a conservative estimate.
At this time, Wei Xingsi continued: "When you stay at school and go abroad, you can put the recruited students on my side, I will help you bring..."
Xu Qiu just took a sip of tea and almost didn't squirt it out. He was thinking just now how Wei Xingsi would think for him like this, because he was waiting for him here.
However, in general, the ideas provided by Teacher Wei are indeed a more suitable path for him.
Of course, Xu Qiu didn't make a statement immediately, but nodded and said: "I will think about it again...I'm going to do an experiment."
"Okay, you go." Wei Xingsi stared at Xu Qiu's back for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking.
In the next few days, Xu Qiu personally prepared a batch of devices every day, and Mo Wenlin and others were responsible for testing.
The efficiency of the device fluctuates and rises to the end. On Thursday, the efficiency of the L6-Cl:Y20 system sprinted to more than 18%, which was a repeat of the results in the simulation laboratory.
Although all this was expected by Xu Qiu, there was still a wave of excitement in his heart.
Because a CNS-level job is still of great significance to Xu Qiu at this stage.
When Jack Ma was successful, he could claim that
the thing he regrets most about doing was founding Hangzhou City Bus
, and King Yida could
take one hundred million as a small goal
.
Perhaps, one day Xu Qiu will also "take sending a CNS as a small goal", and the last thing he regrets is "pouring too much water on the CNS".
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When the most critical efficiency data was obtained, Xu Qiu was in class at the Handan campus.
He immediately sent a message in the WeChat group of the organic photovoltaic team and began to assign work:
Mo Wenlin was in charge of going to Beijing NIM for third-party testing.
Han Jiaying and Xu Xinjie are responsible for the next device preparation work. At least ten batches of devices will be repeated. After Mo Wenlin returns from Beijing, she will also join the device preparation team.
Wu Shengnan, Fan Wentang and Yin Houlang are responsible for completing various experimental characterization tasks, including UV-vis, PL, GPC, NMR...
This is also a learning process for Fan Wentang and Yin Houlang. They can become familiar with the entire characterization process in the field of organic photovoltaics.
In addition, Wu Shengnan and the others are also responsible for sending a batch of samples to Feng Shengdong, Sweden, to test TAS, TRPL, etc.
Xu Qiu is mainly responsible for writing articles, the target journal "Nature".
Just like when he wrote the "Science" article, Xu Qiu first logged into the official website of "Nature" to submit to "Nature", which is not the same as submitting to journals such as AM. Spend more time before submitting the manuscript to find out the specific requirements of the other party. , Is very necessary.
After all, "Nature" receives nearly 10,000 manuscripts every year, and only more than 800 manuscripts are accepted.
Researchers all over the world are staring at "Nature". Even if their work is good enough in the current field, it cannot be published steadily. It is necessary to get rid of other submissions in the same period to stand out.
To put it bluntly, it is the volume. There was no "Nature" Dazi magazine in the world. As there are more people, there will be...
Moreover, once the vote for "Nature" is rejected, either switch to "Nature" big magazine or NC, or you can only switch to "Science", the fault tolerance rate is very low, there are only two opportunities, miss it.
Unlike AM, you can vote for EES if you are rejected for EES, you can vote for JACS if you are rejected for EES, you can vote for NC if you are rejected for JACS, and you can even make high shots in the past. It is also acceptable, the difference between the two is not big.
The page of the official website of Nature loads quickly.
Xu Qiu glanced around and found that compared to the red and black simple design style of the "Science" official website, the official website of "Nature" did not give people a strong visual impact in color, just ordinary black text on a white background.
However, the "Nature" official website has relatively more content.
Xu Qiu first found the author's submission column and checked the article submission requirements.
"Nature" is very interesting for the classification of articles, there are only two categories, "Articles (experimental articles and "non-experimental articles".
This shows that they pay more attention to experimental articles.
Of course, the whole academic circle is also like this.
Because non-experimental articles, whether they are reviews, short reviews, or other articles, can only be icing on the cake. Experimental articles are the core foundation of natural science.
"Nature" writes very detailed requirements for "experimental articles":
"Articles are the original report. Its conclusions represent a significant progress in the understanding of an important issue. It has a direct and far-reaching impact. In printed matter, they usually do not exceed 5 pages..."
"There must be an abstract paragraph at the beginning, mainly for readers outside the subject. It is best not to exceed 200 words. This is a text independent of the main text. It is necessary to avoid unnecessary numbers, abbreviations, acronyms..."
"The structure of the summary paragraph should be as follows: a basic introduction to the field in 2-3 sentences; a brief description of the work background and basic principles; a statement of the main conclusions; and finally, the main findings in 2-3 sentences In a general context, you can clearly see how the results described in the paper have promoted the development of this field..."
"The main text should have 3-4 diagrams, and the length of the main text including the abstract is usually 2000-2500 words..."
"Important but technical details can be transferred to methods or supplementary information..."
"Articles usually have 30-50 references. Pay attention to the space these documents occupy on the page..."
"Separate sections with subtitles to facilitate navigation..."
"The subtitle can contain up to 40 characters (including spaces)..."
In general, the requirements of "Nature" and "Science" are similar.
However, regarding the abstract, Xu Qiu heard this statement for the first time: "The abstract is written for laymen."
Probably, only high-impact comprehensive journals like "Nature" would say this.
Like other professional journals, such as AM, those who will read your articles are basically peers, so there is no need to write abstracts to laypersons.
After reading the submission requirements, there is still a little time before the get out of class ends. Xu Qiu didn't plan to write an article, so he simply returned to the homepage of Nature and continued to check the content of the homepage.
First of all, at the top is also a cover article, with a large cover and four small covers.
The big cover article is a long strip that occupies the entire layout.
The four small cover articles together take up four-fifths of the space, and one-fifth of the space is the cover of the print edition of the current issue of "Nature" magazine.
Below the cover article is the "News&Comment" column.
This is similar to the short comment series in "Science", mainly focusing on current events and hot spots.
Most likely it is the place where the big guys irrigate water, and each job also has a cover picture.
There is a big cover and six small covers.
Speaking of which, these cover pictures are not as high-end as Xu Qiu imagined.
Moreover, the meaning is also very vague. From the cover alone, there is no way to infer what the other party wants to express.
For example, the big cover is a photo of dozens of people gathering together for a meeting...
The small cover 1 is a cartoon. In the picture, there are two girls in white coats, one with black skin and the other with white skin. They are in a place similar to a pharmacy storing medicines. Then their black skin looks up at the sky, seeming to be watching Shelves, with white skin looking down at the ground, her eyes on the medicine bottle, what is recording with a pen in her hand...
Small cover 2, is a middle-aged male dressed as a doctor/researcher, wearing a headwear and a mask, holding a card similar to a credit card in both hands, the meaning is unknown...
Small cover 3, it is a doctor girl giving an injection to a patient, behind it is similar to the revolving door of a train station to prevent the flow of people from moving backwards, and can only get out of the revolving door.
Small cover 4, a black male researcher, is operating a small transparent box that he doesn't know what it is...
The small cover 5 is a photo of a black woman with a big head and face, very similar to that one-inch photo with a gray background. Xu Qiu speculated that this person may be a well-known scientist, but he does not know...
Small cover 6, there are two black children, there is a water source in front of them, and there are several bungalows painted with green paint in the distance. The significance is unknown...
If you want to say something in common, it is that there are people on all the covers, but the meaning of the expression is too vague.
Xu Qiu feels that "Nature" is not as good as "Science" in terms of web design.
"Science", at least when you look at the homepage, it feels more organized.
Xu Qiu even had the idea of ​​submitting this article to "Science" again.
However, this idea only passed by in a flash. If for this reason, I didn't vote for "Nature", it would be too sloppy.
Next is the "LatestReviews&Analysis" column, which mainly covers recent hot articles.
Originally, Xu Qiu saw "Reviews" and thought it was mainly a review article.
As a result, I clicked in and found that most of the articles here are practical experimental work, and each work also has a cover image.
The cover picture here is much more "normal", and all the drawings are some mechanism diagrams, and the sense of high-level suddenly comes up, and it has a taste of scientific research.
In the first cover, it describes the "mechanism of the degeneration of organelles during lens development."
The second picture, "Non-reciprocal interactions in the flocking process of birds".
The third picture, "The Destruction Process of Cyclin D".
The fourth picture, "Polarized Eddy Currents in Ferroelectric Thin Films".
The fifth one, "The Formation of Motor Circuit".
Although the high-level sense and compelling style are coming up, the price is obscure and incomprehensible.
Even Xu Qiu, if he doesn't read the text, only relying on a picture, he can't understand what they are talking about, only a general idea.
For example, the first cover is about eyes, and the second cover is biology-related...
This is also normal. The barriers between different research fields in the scientific research circle are very high.
Even if you are a big academician, you usually only work deeply in a few fields, and there are very few scientific researchers who can easily cross boundaries.
Hundreds of years ago, there would be such all-round scientific researchers who crossed boundaries in mathematics, physics, and chemistry.
However, now, it is almost impossible for such a character to appear, and it may be written like this in the novel.
Xu Qiu continued to look down. It was "LatestResearcharticles". Only the latest 5 articles were listed, but each article was accompanied by a cover image.
The cover image here, whether it is a nuclear magnetic map, a two-dimensional color map, or a map drawn by ORIGIN, has made Xu Qiu a little familiar.
The previous cover image is really hard to describe.
Next, it is "".
Xu Qiu didn't know how to translate this word. It probably suggested a topic or pointed out a type of matter.
The current theme is "Sports Science".
Xu Qiu looked at the details inside and found that this column seemed to be able to be posted through sponsored advertising.
For example, there is a "" column, the title is actually "The flower grower Ludao University, climb new heights!"
The following is a description: "Ludao University was founded by overseas Chinese philanthropist TanKahKee in 1921. After a century of development, it has formed a culture of innovation and openness. This leading flower planter university has expertise in chemistry, biology and life sciences, public health, and oceanography. It has strong strength in the fields of science and ecology, and has won international recognition for its outstanding achievements in multidisciplinary research. It is determined to promote the transformation of its research results to serve the needs of society. This is the ambition of its founder."
Xu Qiu was stunned, and he didn't know how much money Ludao University put in an advertisement on "Nature", but it must be no less.
It has to be said that the "Nature" publishing house is indeed better at doing business, whether it has been publishing sub-journals or other business operations, it is far better than "Science".
Xu Qiu estimated that if Science hadn't been old enough, it might have been killed by other commercial journal companies in the new generation.
Further down, is an article Altmetric index ranking, a total of four positions.
Altmetric is a new concept, Xu Qiu hadn't heard of it before, so he inquired about it.
Then, he discovered that the Altmetric index is an emerging index to evaluate the influence of papers in recent years. Compared with traditional paper indexes, Altmetric is a product based on the current network socialization background, mainly to understand the degree of recognition of papers. And share the level of discussion.
Altmetric scores are based on the number of citations from different social media, generally including news, patents, blogs, Weibo, twitter, forums, etc.
It is mainly considered from three aspects, namely the number of citations, the source of the citation and the author of the citation.
News and blog citations can get the most points, but the more people mention, cite, and interact with the article through multiple sources, the more likely the article is to get a higher score.
The weight of each social media is different, according to the general calculation method given by Altmetric's official website:
8 points for news, 5 points for blogs, 3 points for Wikipedia, 3 points for policy documents and patent documents, 1 point for Twitter, +1 point for Google, 0.25 points for Facebook, Youtube, 0.25 points for Q&A communities...
Compared with traditional impact factors, Altmetric has many advantages, such as: fast updates and immediate feedback; research influence on non-professional readers; researchers can find cooperation opportunities; social media communication visibility...
But the shortcomings are also obvious, including: it is currently good for English literature, but not good for articles and research published in non-English; paying more attention to popular subjects or controversial topics, based on attention, but not to the true quality of the literature. Reflect; usually cannot be directly compared between different majors; easier to be manipulated; scores will change...
Xu Qiu feels that this kind of index is of little significance to him or the researchers in the field, at least it is difficult to replace the traditional impact factor.
However, it is always good to be able to develop new indicators.
Because civilization always stumbles forward in constant attempts and reforms.
Finally, there is the "NatureCareers" column, which is divided into two sub-columns, "Events" and "Jobs".
The "Activity" column mainly includes the major meetings to be held in the future.
After seeing the "Work" column, Xu Qiu's first reaction was the recruitment information from the editorial department of "Nature".
As a result, he clicked on the title of "AssistantProfessor (Assistant Professor at the top and found that the details were:
The Department of Cancer Biology at the DanaFarber Cancer Institute and the Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (BCMP) at Harvard Medical School invite applicants to serve as assistant professor-level tenured faculty.
We look for imaginative and creative early career scientists who can apply their chemical biology and/or medicinal chemistry expertise to important issues in basic and translational science.
We provide an exciting and collaborative working environment, including different professors and research fields, spanning chemical biology, cancer biology, structural biology, pharmacology, cell biology, biochemistry and medicine.
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Applications will be reviewed on March 15, 20xx.
It's actually an advertisement again!
I have to say that the editorial team of "Nature" is indeed very commercialized.
Although Xu Qiu used to see advertisements when he was reading traditional paper magazines, such as "Reader", "Yi Lin", and "Story Meeting".
However, Xu Qiu always felt a little weird after seeing the advertisements in "Nature".
Suddenly I felt that the grade of the journal "Nature" has become a lot lower...