Chapter 493

When sun Ruyue and others were preparing for the experiment, Yang Rui read the letter by himself.

Later generations have wechat, QQ, SMS, telephone, email and other contact tools, but in China in the 1980s, the letter is the most basic and important contact tool.

In the 1980s, there were few Chinese who had never written a letter, but there were too many who had never made a phone call or sent a telegram.

Although Yang Rui calls every day when he wants to, he is a local tyrant and can't be compared with ordinary people.

Now, it's only a few cents to send a letter, but it may cost a few yuan to make a phone call. Moreover, the phone call can't be made if you want to. For example, in xizhaizi Township, except for the township government, the post office can't make a phone call when it's picked up. It may take half an hour to manually transfer all the way to Beijing, It's not unusual to wait two or three hours on the line.

It can be said that the telephone line to Beijing in 1984 was more blocked than the road to Beijing in 2014.

Yang Rui's classmates in Ruixue group, as well as the experts he knew at the meeting, and even the experts he didn't know, liked to write to him.

Nowadays, it's normal for an ordinary college student to send and receive more than ten e-mails in a semester. Unlike later generations, it takes several pages to send a letter. Many people like to write big words, 20 or 30 words on a page. A letter may not have 144 words.

And these letters, chatting, greeting, talking about work, but most of them are chatting.

Yang Rui is also used to writing short messages. He has a letter on his left and a letter paper on his right. As he looks at it, he replies to it. After the letter is written, it is put into an envelope and sealed, and then the reply is tied with the credit rubber band. Naturally, after he has a research dog, he can help fill in the reply address, post the ticket and send it. It's no more troublesome than sending and receiving short messages.

Of course, the premise is to have the help of research dogs.

Among the more than a dozen domestic letters, there are four foreign letters. Since Yang Rui participated in "international medicine and bioengineering", some experts and professors he knew sent exchange letters. After he published "cell", more foreigners he didn't know sent letters.

He is the corresponding author of the paper. Naturally, he wants to publish his contact information in cell. For the bioscience community, a heavyweight paper is equal to a Golden advertising space.

Yang Rui did not rush to open the letter and answered it.

It's like future researchers have to write e-mails every day. Reading and answering letters has always been a part of researchers' work.

This way of working can be pushed forward two or three hundred years. Many of Gauss's famous discoveries and achievements were even dug out by later scholars from his letters.

The assistant teachers and lecturers who also work in Tang central laboratory are envious of Yang Rui's writing letters in English. This is one of the reasons why everyone is scrambling to participate in the international conference. For students, it may be cool to have a foreign pen pal. for scholars, it is a real help and promotion to have a foreign scholar exchange experience.

"Gee." Opening the last letter, Yang Rui was surprised.

"Good news?" Assistant Tan, the head dog in the lab, wandered over.

"JMC wants me to read a paper." Yang Rui did not answer.

Assistant Professor Tan hissed and took a cool breath: "is it JMC that you published the paper?"

"Right."

"JMC invites you to be a reviewer?" Lecturer fan, the second leader of the laboratory, was also attracted.

Yang Rui still nodded, said: "they are also peer review mechanism."

Yang Rui has been a reviewer of "biochemistry system ecology" before, and has also been a reviewer of several papers. However, after the scientific research competition of potassium channel started, Yang Rui had no time to review the manuscript, and rejected several articles one after another.

Of course, Yang Rui has not reviewed the JMC level manuscript.

Although the requirements of foreign journals for reviewers are not very strict - after all, it is a voluntary work, and there are two or three people working at the same time, they still have the minimum qualification examination for reviewers.

Especially for Journals of JMC level, they invite peer review, which itself means a kind of qualification.

If only a threshold paper is published in the journal, it is impossible for the editor to invite reviewers unless he is confused.

In addition, the identity of the reviewer who is invited will have a great influence on whether or not he is invited.

If you are a professor in a world-famous university, you will certainly give the editor more confidence - most journal editors only have basic scientific research level, and at most have made achievements in some aspects. Whether the content of a paper meets the requirements of the journal and whether it is valuable or not depends entirely on the judgment of the reviewers.As a kind of media, the periodical agency can invite at most one or two powerful professors to support its appearance, but they can't make every periodical editor become Da Vinci.

It can be said that choosing the right reviewer is one of the most important tasks for journal editors.

Out of caution, the more well-known institutions or research institutions, the more institutions and research institutions in developed countries, the more easily they are favored by editors.

84 Peking University in 2005 is far from up to the standard of world-famous universities, so there are not many reviewers from foreign journals.

TA Tan came over greedily, stood behind Yang Rui and asked, "who wrote the paper, can you see it?"

"It should be seen that peer review is single blind." Lecturer fan stood side by side with Assistant Professor Tan. He had just graduated for three years and had not been a reviewer.

Yang Rui nodded with a smile and said, "it should be single blind."

Single blind means that the reviewer knows the author's personal information, while the author does not know who is reviewing the paper.

Yang Rui unfolded the letter without cover.

Many professors are too busy to review manuscripts. They often give them to the students under their hands to do exercises, and then check them by themselves. Journals also know this situation, and generally avoid peer review by stakeholders.

Lecturer fan read his name curiously and said: the University of Tokyo? Or the professor's thesis! "

"It's normal for a professor from Tokyo University to contribute to JMC."

"Tokyo University... It's normal for professors of Tokyo University to contribute to JMC, but..." lecturer fan wanted to shout a little, but he was suppressed by Yang Rui's calm attitude, which made him more impulsive to shout.

Although there were too many conflicts, in the 1980s, Tokyo University was the first in Asia. Peking University and Tsinghua University were even hard to get into the second echelon composed of National University of Singapore, Seoul University of South Korea and Hebrew University of Israel.

Although a professor of Tokyo University wrote an ordinary paper and sent it to Yang Rui, it was nothing.

However, when this kind of theoretically possible thing happens, people in reality are still impacted on their senses.

"Yang Rui can even examine the manuscript for the professor of Tokyo University?" This idea surrounded lecturer fan and Assistant Professor Tan, which made them gasp.

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