Chapter 319: This time it's "Science"

The editorial department of Science is as busy as ever. －>
Every day, a large number of manuscripts are sent from all over the world, but less than one tenth of them can be successfully listed in the journal.
Compared to an editorial position, Warren feels that his job is more like a gold digger. Screen novels and groundbreaking papers from a large number of manuscripts and hand them to the appropriate reviewers.
Without a doubt, this is a great job, because the whole world is changing.
At the same time, however, this is also a boring job.
As for why you say that ...
Because as one of the two top journals in academia, "Science" is really too famous.
Contributors also do whatever it takes to publish here. It is for this reason that they can see various "breakthrough" progress every day.
To be honest, the correctness of the thesis can not be judged by the editors who are only half-footed in the academic circle. You can only refer to the identity of the contributor, and the information outside the paper, such as your university or research institution, past submission records, etc., to determine whether a paper is eligible for peer review.
As usual, Warren brewed himself a refreshing cup of black coffee before working, then opened his work mailbox and collected papers that were reviewed by a technical editor.
Looking at the e-mail, he could not help but feel scalp.
"I think the technical department should develop some new functions for our office software."
"For example?" Bellock asked casually, working on his job.
Warren said angrily: "For example, before sending the paper to us, calculate the cumulative impact factor of the contributor's past submission records, the academic ranking of the research institution, and then sort the weight.
"It's a good idea, but it seems a little unfair to the lesser-known contributors," Bellock said with a smile.
"What's the matter? We are" Science ", shouldn't we use a more scientific method to screen our manuscripts?" While dragging a paper into the recycle bin mercilessly, Warren spat out, "Some papers It's a pure waste of time. "
I knocked off one paper and quickly opened the next.
The moment he saw the title, Warren couldn't help but grumble in his heart.
Lithium-sulfur battery again!
The previous article also claimed that it solved the shuttle effect, it was just a study of solid electrolytes. To be honest, there is nothing wrong with the direction of solid electrolyte, but some errors in the paper are obvious, even if he is an editor who does not have the ability to review.
Recently, he has almost vomited to read such papers.
Subconsciously he looked at the contributor and his research institution, and when Warren wondered whether he should waste a few minutes on this paper, he suddenly hesitated.
I see the name of the contributor seems familiar ...
Looking back at the research facility, I saw the Frick Chemistry Laboratory at Princeton University filled in.
Then Warren discovered something even more surprising.
The paper submitted is not just one, but two ...
Warren glanced silently at the calendar sitting at the corner of his desk.
I remember that it was only half a year that Science had performed "highlights" on modified pdms material papers published in the "Nature" sub-journal. "Materials."
After solving the lithium dendrite problem, the shuttle effect was solved?
This is too exaggerated!
However, Lu Zhou's academic reputation was there, and Warren still paid enough attention to this thesis and carefully studied it line by line.
Then he made trouble.
At lunchtime, Beloque, who was sitting next to his desk, stood up and was preparing to solve his lunch problem.
At that moment, he noticed the colleague next to him, staring at the screen with a frown, without leaving the seat. Out of curiosity, he walked over and glanced behind Warren.
"Lu Zhou? That Princeton professor?"
Warren looked meticulously at the dissertation and replied casually: "Yes, I don't think Princeton would have a second professor with such a weird name ..."
Beloque's tone was a little surprised: "It's unbelievable that it's only been half a year ... And are two manuscripts submitted together?"
"And it's a lithium-sulfur battery, obviously he did a big move," staring at the computer screen, Warren's ball-point pen in his hands, "two papers, one on the specific surface area of ​​hollow carbon spheres and Research on the effect of pore size on the diffusion rate of polysulfide compounds. Another paper is about hcs-1 hollow carbon sphere materials. The two papers have a certain correlation. The former focuses on theory and the latter focuses on application ... how to do ? "
Bellock hesitated and said, "I think Professor Lu's academic reputation can still be trusted. It is better to refer the reviewer to determine whether he is eligible for publication?"
Warren said with a headache: "I know, but the question is, who is this reviewer?"
This is indeed a problem.
There was a faint expression on Bellock's face.
"Fortunately, the paper on hcs-1 hollow carbon sphere materials, many professors in the direction of carbon nanomaterials have the ability to review ~ EbookFREE.me ~ but this other paper ..." After thinking about it, he also Did not think of a suitable candidate.
Looking for a professor of mathematics, not many people are interested in organic chemistry. Looking for big cattle in the field of organic synthesis, very few people can understand Lu Zhou's dissertation.
In the circle of organic materials, there are many people who make carbon nanomaterials, and there are many research teams who make hollow carbon spheres, but those who do calculation materials ... To be honest, there are too few.
Many people finally changed their careers to become code farmers, and their annual salary has more than doubled. And those who do not forget their persistence in their original intentions, there are very few who can make great cattle.
Because of the modified PDMS material that was born in a miracle, Lu Zhou has been held up by God as a computing material colleague, and he is counting on him to save them like David Shaw's rescue of computational chemistry.
It is difficult to find a suitable candidate from these people to find a professor who is qualified for reviewing Lu Zhou.
After thinking for a while, Bellock tried to propose: "Will you still contact Professor Bavandi?"
"But is he studying the direction of carbon nanometers?" Warren frowned. "And I heard that he has been very busy lately and has pushed out invitations to review many journals."
"But he has been a reviewer for Professor Lu twice, and only he knows his paper better." Bellock said, "still, you have a better candidate."
"Then write and trouble him again." Hesitating for a moment, Warren immediately made a decision, dragging two papers into the folder used to store important manuscripts.
He had no doubts about whether these two papers were eligible for publication from the beginning.
If the shuttle effect can really be contained by this hcs-1 material, this result will undoubtedly be groundbreaking.
It is naturally appropriate to be published in Science.