Chapter 320 Is It "Science" This Time?

The editorial department of "Science" is as busy as ever.

Every day, a large number of manuscripts are sent in from all over the world, but less than one tenth of them can be successfully published in the journal.

Warren felt more like a gold digger than an editorial job. Select novel and groundbreaking papers from a large number of manuscripts and send them to the appropriate reviewers.

There is no doubt that this is a great job, because the whole world is being changed by this job.

At the same time, however, it's a boring job.

As for why you say that...

Because as one of the two top journals in academia, "Science" is really famous.

In order to publish here, the contributors are also unscrupulous. It is precisely because of this that they can see various "breakthrough" progress every day.

To be honest, editors like them who are only half-footed in the academic circle have no way of judging the correctness of the paper. You can only refer to the identity of the contributor, as well as information other than the paper, such as the university or research institution, past submission records, etc., to determine whether a paper is eligible to enter the peer review process.

As usual, Warren made himself a refreshing cup of black coffee before going to work, then opened his work mailbox and received the papers that had passed the review of the technical editor.

Looking at the emails, he couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling.

"I think the technology department should develop some new functions for our office software..."

"For example?" Belloc, who was dealing with the work at hand, asked casually.

Warren said angrily: "For example, before sending the paper to us, the cumulative impact factor of the contributor's past submission records and the academic ranking of the research institution are calculated and weighted, and then sorted."

"It's a good idea, but it seems unfair to the lesser-known contributors," Belloc laughed.

"What does it 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 complained, "Some papers Pure waste of time."

One paper was killed, and the next one was quickly opened.

The moment he saw the title, Warren couldn't help but swear in his heart.

Another lithium-sulfur battery!

The previous article also claimed that he had solved the shuttle effect, but only studied solid electrolytes. To be honest, there is nothing wrong with the direction of solid-state electrolytes, but some errors in the paper are so obvious that even an editor without the ability to review manuscripts can see them.

Recently, he almost vomited after reading such papers.

Subconsciously looking at the contributors and the research institution, when Warren was wondering whether he should waste a few minutes on this paper, he suddenly froze for a moment.

The name of the contributor seems familiar...

Looking at the research institution, I saw that it was filled with the Frick Chemistry Laboratory of Princeton University.

Then Warren discovered something even more surprising.

Contributed papers are not just one, but two...

Warren looked silently at the calendar on the corner of his desk.

I remember that it was only half a year after "Science" "highlighted" the paper on modified PDMS materials published in the sub-journal of "Nature". Materials" equivalent level papers.

Solving the lithium dendrite problem and then solving the shuttle effect?

This is too exaggerated!

However, Lu Zhou's academic reputation is there, and Warren still paid enough attention to this paper, and carefully studied it line by line.

Then, he was in trouble.

When it was lunch break, Belloc, who was sitting at the desk next door, stood up and was about to solve the lunch problem.

At this moment, he noticed that his colleague next to him was staring at the screen with frowning eyes, without any intention of leaving his seat. Out of curiosity, he walked over and stood behind Warren for a few glances.

"Lu Zhou? That Princeton professor?"

Warren looked at the paper meticulously, and replied casually: "Yes, I don't think there will be a second professor with such a strange name in Princeton..."

Belloc's tone was a bit surprised: "It's unbelievable, it's only been half a year... and two manuscripts were submitted together?"

"And it's a lithium-sulfur battery. Obviously he has made a big move." Staring at the computer screen, Warren twisted the ballpoint pen in his hand nervously. "Two papers, one paper is about 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 the research on HCS-1 hollow carbon sphere materials. The two papers are related to a certain extent. The former focuses on theory, and the latter focuses on application... What to do ?”

Belloc hesitated for a while, and said, "I think Professor Lu's academic reputation is still trustworthy. Why don't we leave the issue of eligibility for publication to the reviewers to judge?"

Warren said with a headache: "I know, but the question is, who is this reviewer?"

This is indeed a difficult problem.

There was also a look of embarrassment on Belloc's face.

"The paper on the hollow carbon sphere material of HCS-1 is okay. Many professors in the field of carbon nanomaterials have the ability to review manuscripts, but this other paper..." After thinking about it, he didn't think of a suitable one. Candidates.

Looking for professors of mathematics, not many people are interested in organic chemistry. Looking for a big cow in the field of organic synthesis, there are very few people who can understand Lu Zhou's paper.

In the small circle of organic materials, there are many people working on carbon nanomaterials, and there are quite a few research teams working on hollow carbon spheres, but those working on computing materials... To be honest, there are really too few.

Many people changed their careers to become code farmers in the end, and their annual salary more than doubled. And among those who have not forgotten their original aspirations and persisted, there are very few who can become big cows.

Because of the miraculously born modified PDMS material, Lu Zhou has been praised as a god by those colleagues who make computing materials, and they all count on him to save them like David Xiao saved computational chemistry.

To find a professor who is qualified to review manuscripts for Lu Zhou from among these people, it is really difficult to find a suitable candidate.

After thinking for a while, Belloc tried to suggest: "Why don't you contact Professor Bawandi?"

"But is he researching carbon nanotechnology?" Warren frowned, "And I heard that he is very busy recently, and has turned down many journal review invitations."

"But he has served as Professor Lu's reviewer twice, and he is the only one who knows his paper better." Belloc said, "Still, you have a better candidate."

"Then write a letter and trouble him again." After hesitating for a moment, Warren immediately made a decision and dragged the two papers into the folder used to store important manuscripts.

From the very beginning, he had no doubts about whether the two papers were eligible for publication.

If the shuttle effect can really be contained by this HCS-1 material, this achievement will undoubtedly be groundbreaking.

Published in "Science", naturally it is very appropriate.