Chapter 17 The Paper Is Published! (Add More Updates for the Leader Eddy1414!)

What is Lu Zhou doing now?

That is sleep, of course.

After staying up all night, my mobile phone was dead. It was seven in the morning when I returned to the bedroom. As soon as I entered the door, I plugged my mobile phone into the charging cable, climbed into bed and fell asleep.

When Lu Zhou woke up, it was already afternoon, and the bedroom was empty.

Feeling the hunger in his stomach, he rubbed his sleepy eyes, climbed down the ladder with Hache, went to the balcony to wash up, then put on his clothes and went downstairs and went straight to the cafeteria.

After ordering a bowl of fried rice and soy milk, and sitting in a remote corner to eat, Lu Zhou took out his mobile phone and was about to browse the circle of friends for a while.

As a result, when he opened his mobile phone, he found that Professor Tang had made more than a dozen calls to him from the landline in his office.

"Could it be that the thesis has been revised? This... you don't need to make so many phone calls."

In addition to being moved, Lu Zhou finished the dinner, quickly took the tableware and chopsticks to collect the remnants of the car, and hurried to the direction of the laboratory building without stopping.

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"I've been calling you all day and can't get through, what are you doing all day long?" Sitting behind the desk, Professor Tang first criticized Lu Zhou.

"Well, the phone is out of power and I forgot to turn it on." Lu Zhou scratched the back of his head.

He didn't plan to tell the professor about the part-time job. First, the school did not allow freshman students to stay home at night. Second, he didn't want to let the matter pass to the counselor, and finally to his father. Families worry about themselves.

Fortunately, Lao Tang didn't get to the bottom of it. He took off the reading glasses on the bridge of his nose, unplugged the USB flash drive from the notebook, and put it on the table: "Your paper is good, there are not many parts that need to be revised, so I don't care about it. You have the cheek to add my name to the title of the book."

"How about that? Without your advice—"

Tang Zhiwei raised his hand and interrupted Lu Zhou's words: "I have the final say on whether it will work or not. I have read your paper. If that academic discussion can also meet the standard of co-authorship, then the paper signed my Tang Zhiwei's name, isn't it? It’s a thousand and a million? Teaching is my duty, and I don’t care what other professors are used to, but this bad ethos can’t start from me. If you really think I’ve helped you a lot, there’s no need for it This is the way to repay my favor and help me with things."

To be honest, an SCI is nothing more than an SCI. At the level of Tang Zhiwei, it has long been uncommon. For Lu Zhou, an independently published paper is very precious. Signing his own name may give his manuscript some preferential treatment in review, but it is not necessarily a good thing for him.

Lu Zhou said sincerely: "If there is anything that can help you, please let me know."

"Hehe, it's not a big deal, don't worry, it's only good for you and no harm." Tang Zhiwei said slowly, "In September, the National Mathematical Modeling Competition for College Students, our school is going to join forces with the School of Software to pull a regular army out, I will join you in Lulu. After the director discussed it, it was decided that it was you."

National Mathematical Modeling Contest?

Lu Zhou was slightly surprised.

He has heard of this stuff. It is said that the gold content of national awards is quite high, so high that the HR of some companies got your resume, and even looked at your resume twice because of this award.

only……

He has only heard of the legendary mathematical modeling contest.

It's mid-June now, and there are only three months left until the end of September.

Three months to prepare, is there really no problem?

Lu Zhou asked in a low voice, "Can I go back and think about it?"

Professor Tang raised his eyebrows and put his hand on the USB flash drive: "What else do you think about? You still need to think about such a good opportunity? Well, you can go back and think about it now, and put this USB flash drive here first. , when you think about it, come back and get it!"

Looking at the unreasonable appearance of Old Tang Man, Lu Zhou couldn't help laughing and crying: "But Professor Tang, I have never participated in this kind of competition. You asked me to represent the school to participate in the competition. If I cheated you..."

It's okay to compete...

But I don't want to take the blame if I lose!

"I'm not worried, what are you afraid of?" Tang Zhiwei snorted, paused for a moment, and continued in a soft tone, "Don't think about this game too hard, just play it with confidence and boldness. You are absolutely capable, I am sure of that."

Professor Tang has said this, and if he doesn't agree again, he will be too ignorant of praise.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, participating in such a competition will definitely be beneficial and harmless to yourself. The only factor that made Lu Zhou hesitate was the worry that the competition training might delay his part-time work and the progress of completing system tasks.

During the summer vacation, he had already planned to stay in school, so as to get the system level up as soon as possible, at least to get mathematics to LV1, or else the other subjects would be zero, which would be really uncomfortable. In addition to brushing tasks, the rest of the time is part-time. After all, it is not only the expenses of the school during the summer vacation, but also the living expenses after the start of the next semester.

As if to see through Lu Zhou's financial fan's mind, Professor Tang smiled and said slowly: "Although there is no prize for the mathematical modeling competition, our school does. The group that can win the National First, not only one 10,000 yuan bonus, and scholarships are given priority.”

"Professor Tang, I've thought about it clearly, please let me play on behalf of the department!" Lu Zhou said seriously.

Professor Tang held back his laughter, put the thermos cup on the table, and waved his hand, "I'll report that name to you. Come here on Saturday to meet your teammates. That's it, don't forget already."

"Yes!" Lu Zhou said with high fighting spirit.

10,000 bucks bonus! If the three are divided equally, it will cost more than 3,000! In addition to the 8,000 yuan national scholarship, this adds up to tens of thousands of yuan.

It may not be a big deal for students with good family conditions, but for Lu Zhou, who only has 3,000 yuan on the card, it is undoubtedly a huge sum of money!

After thanking Professor Tang again, Lu Zhou returned to the dormitory with the USB flash drive.

It was getting a little dark at the moment. Except for Liu Rui, who was still reviewing the scores in the classroom, Shi Shang and Huang Guangming had already returned, and they were sitting in front of the computer nervously playing a group.

Although he also wanted to join them to relax, Lu Zhou thought that he still had business to do, and finally gave up this fleeting thought. He carried his notebook to the bed, connected to the wifi in the bedroom, and prepared to upload the paper.

After some struggles, he finally chose "Theoretical and Applied Mathematics Letters", an official journal of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, as his submission target.

As for the reason, it is naturally because it can save a lot of money for the layout fee.

However, he may have to queue for a while.

Open the webpage, fill in the author's information and email, and it took about ten minutes to get these miscellaneous things. Lu Zhou finally reached the last step, and clicked to upload the paper.

The status shows "Submitted-to-Editoria-Office", which means that the manuscript has been sent to the editor's office, and then there is a long wait, waiting for a reviewing editor to see his small transparent manuscript...

Stretching, Lu Zhou was about to lie on the bed for a while when suddenly, the phone vibrated slightly.

I thought it was the senior sister named Chen Yushan who had another math question to ask herself, but she unlocked the screen and opened it, but it was an email.

The moment he saw the subject of the email, Lu Zhou was stunned.

He almost suspected that he had read it wrong, and couldn't help but whisper.

"……how is this possible?"

It is the copyright authorization agreement sent from the other side of the Pacific Ocean!

In other words, his submission has entered the so-called "proof" process!

While the rules vary from journal to journal, most don't send the license agreement until the manuscript is accepted, a process that can take anywhere from a day to two weeks.

In other words, his manuscript was cut in line in an instant and presented directly to the journal editor's computer...

Is this also the power of the system?

Lu Zhou swallowed, opened the mailbox on the computer, downloaded the agreement in the email, signed the authorization agreement as required, and sent the electronic file back to the address given in the email.

After waiting for about five minutes, he refreshed the page where he contributed.

【Under-Review】!

Lu Zhou felt that his heart was beating a little bit.

This means that his article has passed the format review of the technical editor and is about to be reviewed by a professional academic editor, which is the so-called external review!

Most people will get stuck at the technical editor for the first time, but because Lao Tang helped him revise the paper, he seems to have passed this level once. As for the next external review, it will be the most rigorous and longest process in the entire SCI submission.

Because under normal circumstances, academic editors themselves are busy researchers, and reviewing manuscripts is unpaid work and requires a lot of energy, so when to contribute to academia for free depends on the mood of the reviewers. It is no exaggeration that you will be stuck in the "UR" link for a month or two when you encounter someone who is more dawdled or busy!

After waiting for about five minutes, Lu Zhou refreshed the webpage again.

This time, nothing has changed in the status of the manuscript.

For some reason, seeing this scene, Lu Zhou breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the power of the system destroyed his common sense to a certain extent, it seemed to return to the category of common sense at the most critical point. Academic editors cannot stare at their mailboxes all the time for such unpaid work.

It seems that the system can't manipulate a person's behavior, although it seems to use some mysterious force to make his manuscript jump in the queue within the rules, and perhaps make his manuscript always appear first in the academic editor's e-mail OK, but this force still has certain constraints in it.

As for what this factor is, Lu Zhou is not sure yet, but no matter what, it is a good thing.

It would be terrifying if the system was really powerful enough to dictate a person's behavior.

Although he enjoys the knowledge and various conveniences brought by the system, he does not want to become a puppet of the system one day. Freedom is priceless, even in times of pinch, he believes.

Of course, it would be nice if the final part of UR could be completed before the score test...

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(Thanks to the leader of Eddy1414 for the reward!!!)