> Tuxian pedaled his bicycle fast, shouting "let go" while rushing into the courtyard where the chemical engineering department of Beijing Iron and Steel Institute was hung.

Several students joking with books quickly occupied both sides, watched Tu Xian return to the office area like a drag race, and got out of the car with a difficult stride and ran into the office.

"What's going on?" said the students passing by, curious.

Tu Xian himself was more curious.

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

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 Systems Ecology, a standard SCI-indexed journal.

Tu Xian believes that in this part of Beijing, there will still be school teachers who do not know what SCI is. But he is sure that in a few years, SCI will become the highest standard for the scientific community to evaluate the quality of papers.

This is the inevitable trend of development. China is also engaged in similar citation standards, led by the Beijing Library, but compared with the American Institute of Scientific Information itself, and the accumulation of SCI founded in 1961, it is not easy to keep up with the footsteps of others, let alone replace SCI. All countries in the world have a citation database and a scientific citation index, and some countries have been doing it since the sixties and seventies, and they have not surpassed SCI so far.

Of course, SCI itself does not create zào papers, it is only the papers and journals that are included.

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

For example, "Biochemical Systems Ecology", in Tu Xian's view, is a high-end journal in chemistry and biology, compared with it, the relevant Chinese journals of the same period are as weak as snails, after all, these journals that have been suspended for several years, and some of which have been suspended for more than ten years, are still as fragile as babies.

It will not be until 20 years from now that there will be a good journal on the world stage.

In China in 1983, the only way for a researcher to get on the world stage was to write a paper in English.

Tu Xian did so, and hopes to be the first faculty member at the university to publish a paper in a foreign biology journal.

Beijing Iron and Steel Institute is a traditional metallurgical college, in the 50s, it was established by merging the metallurgical majors of six universities such as Tsinghua University, which is a strong college, and has the slogan of "Peking University, Tsinghua University, and the third steel company".

With the progress of the times, Beijing Iron and Steel Institute is also actively expanding, and it is imperative to establish a special 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 would be a biology major in the future, he was also very happy, and he buried himself in practical work all day long.

In this regard, the school has also given support, they want to change the name of the school to "University of Science and Technology Beijing", naturally there must be a full range of science and technology majors, and the school's teachers expand the scope of research, which 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 journals in China, he is considered a leader among young lecturers, plus his undergraduate diploma, if it is Shun lì, at most, he can be rated as an associate professor.

Of course, whether it can be rated or not depends on various soft and hard powers.

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

If you want to evaluate an associate professor in the metallurgical major of Beijing Iron and Steel Institute, publishing articles in foreign journals is the basic condition, and publishing three or five articles can make people look at it at a glance. Even the Department of Chemical Engineering, where Tu Xian is currently located, has published more than a dozen papers in foreign journals, and this is Beijing, China's capital of goodness, and the center of political culture and science and technology.

However, the biology major that has not yet been established in the Iron and Steel Institute is different, there are only a few people who change careers to do biology, but none of them have published papers in foreign journals. There are always a lot of offers for those who are ahead.

Tu Xian rubbed his hands, silently reciting "God and Buddha Blessing" in his heart, before tearing open the envelope and couldn't wait to read it.

Tu Xian didn't watch it in the mailroom, because he was worried that the result would not be good, or that he would lose his temper.

Hiding in his real room and office, Tu Xian can express himself to his heart's content, whether it is excitement and disappointment, or a posture of prayer.

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

Revise the wording!

Although the opinions of the two reviewers were unanimous, their evaluations were very different. One of the reviewers simply stated his judgment, while the other said a large paragraph, and then pointed out several major errors in his paper.

Tu Xian let out a sigh and sat down in his chair, only to realize that his back was already soaked.

"I didn't get through guò immediately, and it's not bad to revise the wording......" Tu Xian smiled, and was a little worried for a moment.

His English level is very average, and when he writes it like this, he has already asked for help from a master, and if he wants to revise it again, he will have to find someone again, which is equivalent to owing a lot of favors.

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

When he arrived at the place, Tu Xian took out all the money on his body, a total of eight yuan and six cents, and bought two cans of luncheon meat, and the rest of the money was just enough to buy two catties of pastries.

Tu Xian carefully picked out the pastries with a complete appearance, watched the female boss of the shop tie them up neatly with hemp paper and hemp rope, and then took out the cloth bag for buying vegetables and put it in, before riding to the family building.

Nowadays, when visiting relatives and friends, one or two catties of pastries are very expensive gifts, and under normal circumstances, even if you are not empty-handed, you can carry a few cents of apples.

Canned meat is only brought when asking someone to do something, and canned braised pork with pure meat is too expensive and not affordable, so Tu Xian bought luncheon meat, which is also a bloody investment.

Two minutes later, Tu Xian parked the car in the carport in the family area, carried a cloth bag and a smile on his face, walked through the small garden, came to No. 35, and slammed the door lock.

"It's coming. The sound of the child running was heard immediately, and when the door opened, I saw a boy with high legs, looking at Tu Xian and the cloth bag in his hand.

"Is Professor Lu 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." ”

"Will you take me there?" Tu Xian bent down and smiled.

Professor Lu is a retired professor from the Iron and Steel Institute and has studied abroad. Because of his poor health, he was not rehired after his retirement, and turned to work as a translator, translating not only metallurgical textbooks, but also literary works, and is recognized as a master of English at the Iron and Steel Institute.

Tu Xian can only find help, but it can only be a retired professor like Professor Lu, other teachers have their own jobs, and they don't have time to sleep every day, so how can they be embarrassed to ask their families to help him change his text.

Of course, Tu Xian is 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, and both of them looked down at the books they were carrying.

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

Publishing high-level papers is a rigid requirement of the higher authorities for the university, and it is also a rigid requirement for the university to the classroom, and how the foreign scientific community views the level of the Chinese scientific community is also the level and number of papers published by Chinese scholars. As far as China's current state is concerned, the so-called high-level papers must be published in foreign journals.

Half of the teachers in Beijing Iron and Steel Institute who want to publish papers abroad and whose English proficiency is not enough will come to Professor Lu, and people from other schools often appear, and Tu Xian has met his peers here more than once.

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

The middle-aged teacher who came from the front quickly got up, and at the same time squeezed out a smile and said, "Professor Lu, I'm here again." ”

"Come in, come in. Professor Deer's voice was hoarse and he didn't show up.

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

This time, he waited half an hour before he could enter.

Professor Lu still smiled and said, "Come in, come in", his thin body sat behind a wide old-fashioned writing desk, and the door of his head was blocked by the lamp, and from the door, it looked like he was wearing a flower feather.

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

Tu Xian thought for a moment, and didn't take out the contents of the bag. He sat down at the desk, put down the bag, took out the letter sent to him from "Biochemical Systems Ecology", pushed it to Professor Lu, and said, "This is a letter sent back to me by the journal department, saying that I want to revise the text. ”

"Oh, I'll take a look. After Professor Lu retired, he sat at home and worked every day, usually during the day to help people change things, and when he was free to translate manuscripts, he was very busy.

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

Out of responsibility, he read it more and said, "Xiao Tu, congratulations, this article seems to be published." ”

"Yes, I don't know how to change the wording. ”

"Did you bring the original manuscript of the paper?"

"Brought it. ”

"Okay, you come to me, I'll tell you ......" Professor Lu took the manuscript and read it, took out a red pen from the pen holder, and scratched it.

Tu Xian read and took notes, as if he were a student.

Tu Xian's original manuscript had more than 1,000 words, and Professor Lu helped to change some of it, and explained the rest, so he asked Tu Xian to sit on the side and revise it himself.

Professor Lu himself saw that he had changed it quite smoothly, so he picked up the reply letter from the journal and read it.

After a while, Professor Lu suddenly said with a smile on his face: "I guess, this second reviewer is also a Chinese." ”

"Huh? Why?"

"Look at the grammar, although it seems to be quite the same thing, but the idiomatic usage is British, the grammar is American, indicating that people from non-English-speaking countries, if you look at the paragraph structure again, isn't it very smooth?" Professor Lu has been a translator all year round, and he has taken students, so he brought the tone of investigation at this time.

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

Professor Lu smiled and said: "You are smooth because the structure of this paragraph is Chinese, and you feel that it is smooth, but foreigners write it not so smoothly." Therefore, this second reviewer is likely to be a Chinese. ”

Tu Xian was stunned for a moment, then smiled instead, and said, "I didn't expect it, I bumped into my own hands, no wonder his comments were written in such detail." ”

"Well, it's a serious review. However, it is not necessarily from our mainland, and it is also possible for Hong Kong and Taiwan compatriots. If you want to know, just ask, although they are anonymous to each other, but the journal Biochemical Systems Ecology should not have many reviewers in Asia. ”

The speaker has no intention and the listener has the intention. Professor Lu just said it casually, but Tu Xian took it to heart.

He was alone in the Iron and Steel Academy, and when he wanted to find help from his biology colleagues, he always went to other schools. Since they are not familiar people, it seems like a good choice to talk to a reviewer from a high-end journal.

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