Wei Kang sat in the office and listened carefully to An Mei's report.
"Mr. Wei, the publication of this journal was very successful. Within three days, the number of downloads reached 600,000, and after a week it had exceeded 1 million."
"This kind of circulation is already comparable to some top publications."
"In addition, this issue of Life has been included in SCI due to its extremely high paper quality and academic value."
"Huh?" Wei Kang couldn't help being stunned, and then burst into laughter: "These foreigners say no, but their bodies are very honest."
"Also, the three major databases, CNKI, VIP, and Wanfang, have all sent letters asking if there will be another issue of the journal Life. They want to officially include the journal in the paper database."
Wei Kang mused: "It's okay to include it, but I have one request, no charge. Otherwise, there is no need to discuss it. We can't let everyone download the paper we worked so hard for for free, but let them sell it for money. This is unfair. It’s appropriate.”
"Understood. Finally, the most frequently asked question on the website is whether the journal "Life" accepts submissions?"
"What a good question." Wei Kang said with a wry smile: "It stumped me."
He originally wanted to accept submissions from outside, but he couldn't help but shudder when he thought about the overwhelming number of papers that completely overwhelmed him.
Even though he didn't submit that many manuscripts, the time and energy it took to review them gave him a headache.
After thinking about it, if I want to reduce the number of submissions, I can only raise the threshold as high as possible.
So he ordered: "You can reply to them. You can submit the paper, but there are a few requirements. We will reject all papers that do not meet the requirements."
"First of all, it must be a paper in the field of life sciences and medicine. Secondly, it must be an innovative and breakthrough paper. I don't want "Life" to become the site of a bunch of master's and doctoral water papers."
"Finally, the experiments in the paper must be clear and the experimental results must meet the requirements of being reproducible."
"Also, if we discover academic misconduct such as pornography or data falsification, we will directly block him. Not only will his papers be rejected in the future, Sanqing will not provide any job opportunities."
"By the way, the paper must be written in Chinese."
Wei Kang thought about it and found that if the submitted paper could meet these requirements, there seemed to be no reason for him to refuse.
As long as Anmei has completed the first step, and then handed it over to employees in each laboratory to verify the experimental results, we can draw conclusions.
From this point of view, it seems that reviewing is not that difficult?
Such high submission requirements will definitely screen out most papers that do not meet the requirements.
He thought happily and couldn't help but praise his wit.
As for the problem of poor experimental reproducibility in the biological world, that was not within his scope.
In fact, this problem has become commonplace in the global scientific research community.
A biotechnology giant once conducted reproducibility verification on 53 so-called landmark papers, but only 6 articles were reproducible.
In 2015, an article in Science found that of 100 studies published in three top psychology journals, less than half could be replicated.
In 2016, Nature conducted an online survey of more than 1,500 researchers and found that 70% had tried to copy other scientists' experiments and failed, and more than half of the researchers were unable to repeat their own experiments.
It can be seen that there are too many "errors" that affect scientific experiments.
It is very difficult to improve the reproducibility of experiments.
But a successful experiment means that the experimenter has carefully designed it and can use the most unpretentious experimental process to prove the most conclusive results.
Natural science is all about reproducible research. If it cannot be repeated, the experiment will be meaningless.
This is also the reason why Wei Kang regards experimental reproducibility as the core of review.
Extremely simple and crude, but really easy to use.
This submission requirement will be officially announced on the official website.
All the potential contributors gasped.
"I'll go, that's too much to ask for."
"Is this for the top issue?"
"I originally thought I could pick up a leaky paper, but I miscalculated."
"Do you really think of yourself as a Cell? If I hadn't been admitted to SCI, who would have submitted articles to it?"
"I can't afford to offend you. I can't afford to offend you. I can't climb high."
"Actually, this is a very reasonable request. If you look at the quality of Sanqing's own paper, you can't put a few pieces of shit in the middle of a Man-Han banquet."
"If I have this level, why don't I submit it to a top foreign journal or a core domestic journal?"
"Because Sanqing does not charge page fees. Top publications often pay tens of thousands in page fees. Can you afford it yourself?"
Everyone fell silent immediately.
This reason is embarrassing and heartbreaking, but it is true.
As we all know, the better the publication, the more expensive the page fee. As for the top publication, it is sky-high.
Those who can be published on it are generally reimbursed for scientific research funds. Otherwise, how can a small doctoral student have the money to publish a paper.
Especially for doctoral students from some prestigious universities, their graduation thesis is required to be published in core journals. This is simply the death of these scientific research dogs.
Although part of it can be reimbursed, in order to publish papers in better journals, some PhD students can only seek help from various sources or even take out loans to publish papers.
There is no way. If you cannot meet the requirements for paper publication, ten years of hard study will be ruined. No one can bear such consequences.
As for those scientific researchers who are already working, not to mention, promotion and salary increase are all based on publishing papers.
This is the unspoken rule that has been operating in academia for many years.
By linking papers with degrees and professional titles, academic journals actively generate income by relying on page fees, harvesting scientific research dogs in academia like leeks one after another, forming a closed business loop.
What’s even more outrageous is that page fees have continued to increase over the years.
In ten years, prices have almost doubled.
In this way, the scientific research dog is really pitiful. Not only does it have to write articles, change articles, and when it comes to downloading its own articles, a payment window also pops up.
It's almost like working purely for the publishing house.
What is knowledge monopoly? Nothing more than this.
"I can save tens of thousands of dollars, so I'll fight for it."
"This is a good thing for people who have no money to publish papers. At least this is the only free SCI academic journal."
"I am very optimistic about the journal Sanqing. It is included not only in foreign databases, but also in the three major domestic paper databases. There is also no charge for downloading. In this way, the spread of the paper will definitely be rapid, and the impact factor will soar."
"It's very reasonable. Free things are often the most expensive, and free papers will naturally have high requirements. You should understand this truth."
"It is suitable for talented but poor scientific researchers. Although it is free, it will reward you with a degree and professional title. It is reasonable to ask for high requirements."
"This is probably the most suitable journal for mathematicians, but it's a pity that they don't accept mathematics papers."
In short, as soon as the news came out, some people were happy and some were sad, but they all had to admit that Sanqing's move opened up another academic path.
****
Sanqing headquarters.
Huang Qin stared at the beautiful publication in his hand with a smile on his face, as if he was intoxicated in a beautiful dream.
He rubbed his fingers on the paper, his movements were extremely gentle, and he let out a burst of giggles from time to time.
This look made everyone passing by shake their heads and quickly walk away.
Even Williams frowned when he saw this scene.
"Qin, are you suffering from food poisoning? Did you eat wild mushrooms at lunch?"
"Oh my god, you can't even hear me. It's too bad."
"You must see a doctor immediately and use potassium permanganate solution to wash your stomach, otherwise it will be too late."
Williams grabbed Huang Qin's shoulders with his big hands and lifted him up, like an eagle catching a chicken, and lifted him up from the seat.
This moment immediately woke Huang Qin up from his sweet dream. He looked at Williams in front of him and was stunned.
"Dawei, what are you doing? Put me down quickly."
"It turns out you didn't have food poisoning and lost consciousness. That's great."
Williams let go of his hand, and Huang Qin fell on the chair with a squeak.
He said with an annoyed look on his face: "Who told you I had food poisoning? I couldn't be better."
"Then why are you looking at this thing in a daze, drooling, and even making creepy and strange sounds."
Williams picked up the publication on Huang Qin's desk with some confusion and found that it was "Life". The page he opened happened to have Huang Qin's paper on it.
"Oh, I'm so happy. It's just a little too much. It's not a big deal."
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu I never expected that a master's degree like me could publish SCI papers. My graduation thesis back then was so poorly written that I was not qualified to publish it in any journal."
The more Huang Qin talked, the more excited he became. When he finished speaking, there was a hint of crying in his tone.
Williams was startled and quickly comforted him: "Qin, you have been working at Sanqing in the past few years since you graduated. You have done a great job and grown very quickly. I have seen all of this. In fact. , your current scientific research level..."
He was silent for three seconds and said: "Your current scientific research level is no worse than those doctoral students at my alma mater."
"Really? How does that compare to you?" Huang Qin looked up at him with expectation on his face.
Williams told the truth: "There is still a lot of room for improvement."
Unexpectedly, Huang Qin was not disappointed, but even more happy. He reached out and held Williams' hands firmly, and said with an emotional expression.
"Dawei, in fact, apart from Sanqing's cultivation, you have helped me the most to be where I am today. I will never forget all of this."
"If I had gone to another company, I might have been a mediocre person doing nothing, working 996 every day, wasting my precious youth on trivial work, and wasting endless repetitive work. After several years, I still achieved nothing. , in the end the project was canceled, or the company went bankrupt, and as for me, I didn’t learn any skills, so I couldn’t find a good job, and I just lived like this all my life.”
"But I came to Sanqing and met you, Director Tang, and many other colleagues. So I didn't waste my life. Instead, I grew rapidly on the road of scientific research."
"I, like a barren seed, was cultivated diligently by the best gardeners in the exceptionally fertile land of Sanqing, and finally broke through the soil and grew vigorously."
“I have never been so sure as I am today that working in Sanqing is the greatest luck in my life.”
Speaking of this, he even cried with joy: "I am satisfied with the results I have achieved now. I know my limits. In fact, my talent in scientific research is limited, and I can only make up for my shortcomings through hard work. The word "Qin" in my name , which is probably the meaning of my life.”
Williams was silent again. He thought carefully about what Huang Qin said and suddenly understood the other person.
In the past few years, he knew that Huang Qin was actually an ordinary person with mediocre qualifications, far from being a genius.
Not to mention comparing with himself, compared with a genius like Tang Que, even the colleagues around him were better than Huang Qin.
Such people, who grew up with ordinary studies and got into ordinary universities, would logically lead an ordinary and mediocre life.
But Huang Qin was different. After coming to Sanqing, not only did he have a genius like himself to teach him how to work, but he also had weekend study classes, the most advanced tools, a lot of hands-on experiments and practical project experience.
It can be said that Huang Qin has the best academic atmosphere and faculty that a person can have.
An ordinary soul, in such an environment, instantly glows with vitality.
With strong internal drive, Huang Qin became true to his name, diligent and diligent, putting in 120% effort and concentration in his work.
With the blessing of such power, in a few years, the transformation was completed, from a pheasant to a phoenix.
In just a few seconds, Williams thought everything clearly, and his heart was shocked.
For a genius like him, studying is like drinking water, and high scores are like eating. Without working too hard, he can enter a prestigious school, do experiments under the guidance of famous teachers, publish papers, graduate successfully, and find a good job.
Everything came too easily, as if it belonged to him naturally.
He never imagined what a harsh scene it would be like for ordinary people.
It wasn't until today, when he was touched by Huang Qin's words, that he realized its significance.
Facts have proved that ordinary people can grow into qualified scientific research talents in an environment like Sanqing, discover their own talents, and have unique research results.
Think about how Huang Qin knew nothing about him when he first met him, and now he is supporting himself alone.
Even though he was in it, Huang Qin's growth rate still amazed him.
Thinking about it this way, maybe everyone has potential, but is delayed by various reasons.
As long as they are given a suitable environment, they can still grow into towering trees in the scientific research community and support the most magnificent academic palace in China.
Williams patted Huang Qin's shoulder with a complicated expression and handed over a tissue.
"Qin, you are right. Your current achievements are all because of coming to Sanqing."
"You are a lucky person who can escape the quagmire of mediocrity and find the meaning of life. Congratulations."
Huang Qin choked and said, "Yes, I received a lot of phone calls from my classmates in the morning, all coming to congratulate me on publishing an SCI paper. Even my supervisor who didn't look at me seriously at the time said that I was his most proud student. He said that he could tell at a glance that I would definitely achieve something in scientific research in my life."
"Then I searched for my paper on the Internet, and many people were discussing it."
"Maybe for a mediocre person like me, this is the highlight of life."
Williams shook his head decisively: "No, Qin, you have to remember that as long as you are still working at Sanqing, there will only be more and more highlight moments in your life. This is by no means the peak of your career, but the starting point. "
Huang Qin pursed his lips and nodded slowly, his eyes filled with determination to move forward.
(End of chapter)
