Rebirth of the God-level Xueba

"The paper is good, I have to read it for a while." Professor Fu read the quotation carefully and sat down.

There are 20 pages of papers in the main text alone, which is much more difficult to read than short stories with several times the number of pages. Professor Fu is an expert in the same field, so you have to read it bit by bit to understand the content of the article .

The experimental dog Zhong Zhiwen standing behind him was miserable, because his English was not good enough, he read Yang Rui's thesis as if he read a bible, and he knew ordinary English words naturally, but for such a paper, ordinary English words are similar to Embellishment is the same.

In fact, there are not a few people who encounter the same problem.

With Professor Fu at the beginning, many of the teachers and researchers in the biology department around asked for a booklet and started reading it by the side of the basketball court.

However, most people can't watch it for a few minutes before they wander outside.

Confidence in English proficiency is not necessarily related to being able to understand English papers. Many English level 4 students who can only use ",, thank-" to order in foreigners' restaurants can read ten lines at a glance when reading English papers. In a way, papers are more like scientific slang, format and so on There are certain rules.

If you are a student who has received sufficient thesis training, when you read a thesis, you can browse it if you want to, and skim if you want to. The only thing you need to pay attention to is the uncommon words.

However, students who have not received sufficient essay training are like punks who have never joined a serious gang. Even if they have memorized all kinds of uncommon words, they will still show their timidity when it comes to big scenes.

Thirty years later, the normal professors in key universities will all come out of thousands of troops. I don’t know how much competition I have experienced. It is still easy to train students’ academic ability. , but if you just arrange training, there is still no problem.

The professors and researchers of top universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University are even more powerful. Although the "Changjiang Scholars Award Program" and "Thousand Talents Program" that have been carried out for many years have been criticized, they have indeed introduced a large number of overseas talents to China, which is backward Well, these people may not necessarily be top-notch in the world, but compared to scholars born from inbreeding in China, they can be regarded as a breath of fresh air.

But in the 80s, that wasn't the case at all. Considering the age, associate professors around 40 years old and professors around 50 years old are young, but 40-year-olds were born in the 1940s, went to school in the 1950s, and went to college in the 1960s. At that time, the teaching order was completely disrupted. Now, whether they can learn the skills, or in other words, whether they can get in touch with the world's most advanced scientific research progress, basically depends on self-study, which is inefficient.

The experience of professors in their fifties and sixties is also very difficult,

They were born in the 1920s and 1930s, grew up and studied during the war years, and then faced the situation of a thousand wastes waiting to be rebuilt at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. In terms of professional skills, these scholars got ample opportunities, countless new factories, technological transformation, The work of repairing bridges and paving roads gives almost college students the opportunity to be independent. However, basic science is not limited to technology, and the high academic requirements are often more hidden. By the time they have laid a solid foundation and become middle-aged and begin to glow with academic spring, the academic soil has already been acidified.

In Peking University now, better professors, such as Tang Zhong and his like, went to Southwest Associated University when they were studying, visited the Soviet Union after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and maintained a minimum of scientific research in the past ten years, so that they can barely stay in the mainstream of the world. in the scientific world.

Those who can’t persist, those who are unable to learn by themselves, or those who are unlucky, most of them can only play in the small domestic scientific research circle, and occasionally do a little world-class repetitive research on domestic blanks to be complacent.

If it is the study of literature, history and geography, which is a pile of old papers, pure theoretical research such as mathematics and physics will be fine. Biology, a natural science that is piled up with money, will always only give opportunities to a few people. This is the case in poor China, and the rich This is the case in China, and so is the United States, Japan and Europe in Jinshan Yinhai.

As for political cadres like Dean Liu, judging whether a paper is good or bad depends on the number of pages.

Only a few dozen teachers or researchers could seriously read Yang Rui's thesis.

This is at Peking University. If you change to the biology department of a local university, you may even be able to save money for subscribing to "Cell". . /p\u003e

Yang Rui sat on the table without any pressure. The thesis has been published. For him, the most difficult part has been completed, and the rest is just the difference of how many flowers are added on the icing on the cake.

At this time, the atmosphere on the May Fourth basketball court began to become weird.

On the one hand, the basketball game that just ended not long ago released a lot of hormones and smelly sweat, leaving behind hundreds of students who have not yet calmed down and agitated breath.

On the other hand, the empty basketball court surrounded by tables, chairs and benches was filled with curious crowds. People were next to each other and crowded, but they were quiet as if they were taking an exam.

For all the hype about muscle power, at the end of the day, the students believe most in brain power.

Peking University students are all beneficiaries of knowledge. If there is a religion of knowledge, then Peking University students are devout believers even if they are not fanatics.

The silent environment not only does not make people uncomfortable, but instead arouses the students' strong curiosity.

"Can I have a copy?" A student squeezed in, breaking the silence.

"Xu Anqing? Well...here's another one." Yang Rui handed him the pamphlet.

Xu Anqing thanked him softly, and lowered his head to look carefully.

The basketball court returned to silence, only the rustling sound of the wind sweeping across the court.

Like Professor Fu, Xu Anqing also wanted to know how big the gap between the two sides was. He couldn't wait to open the paper, staring at the first author and corresponding author "-yang" for a few seconds, and then quickly read on.

As the number one student in the provincial college entrance examination, Xu Anqing's path is smoother than most others. In terms of academics, he joined Richard's experiment in his freshman year, and he can be said to be ahead of all Peking University students.

Like any other resource-intensive industry, academia is a world where the strong get stronger and the strong get stronger.

The best students get the best education, the best education gets the most resources, the most resources get the most results, and the most results in turn stimulate more investment.

Also at Peking University, ordinary students usually do not come into contact with research work until their third or fourth year. In the next one or two years, they will have to work hard to get the paper (thesis) they want, and the level of the thesis, In fact, it largely depends on the level of the research team they join.

The ivy leagues have endured not only because they select the best students, but because they provide the best education, thereby putting more distance between the best students and the second best students.

Xu Anqing has obtained almost the best conditions. If... If Richard's laboratory develops smoothly, he will be able to obtain the qualification to study abroad at the University of California, Berkeley. In the field of biology, graduates of the University of California, Berkeley have no If you are in doubt, you can fight for the best institution or company to get the greatest attention and remuneration.

Even if he fails to become king or sage in the end, Xu Anqing can easily become a gold-collar worker in the biological sciences. If he does not want to stay in the United States, many domestic universities and research institutions will sing "Welcome to Beijing" to pick him up. By the way Dozens of millions of relocation allowances with both hands, and millions of dollars in research funding each year, are at your disposal.

The failure of Richard's laboratory was a heavy blow to Xu Anqing, which made him fall from five or six years ahead of other students to two or three years ahead of other students.

However, leading is leading after all. The exhausting experience in Richard's laboratory gave Xu Anqing great confidence. He originally thought that if he worked hard for a few years, he still had a chance to catch up with Yang Rui and bridge the gap again.

Until the "cell" paper appeared on the basketball court.

This guy actually received a paper from "Cell" while he was playing basketball. Xu Anqing didn't know that he should criticize him for wasting time? Still envious of his good luck...

"It should be good luck... Maybe, maybe a bit predictable, but it must be luck to make the data so easily..." Xu Anqing commented in his heart while flipping through the paper.

He participated in the scientific research competition in Richard's laboratory all the way, and he is very familiar with mutagenesis and mutation of genes, and testing the function of potassium channels.

However, the familiar and unfamiliar proficient experimental process, skilled calculation skills, and mature theoretical logic are crushing Xu Anqing's self-confidence bit by bit.

It is also destroying Professor Fu's self-confidence.

The thesis is a collection of jargon to outsiders, but it should be concise to insiders.

Professor Fu is working on a precursor, and his English level is also good. It is not difficult to understand Yang Rui's thesis.

But if you understand it, you will feel that this project is really difficult.

It is so difficult that you feel pain when you look at the instruments and materials used; it is so difficult that you feel pain in your hands when you look at the experimental process that obviously requires trial and error; it is so difficult that you feel pain when you look at a large amount of data calculation and theoretical derivation. Headache.

"Can this thing be made in half a year?" Every time Professor Fu reads a few pages of the paper, this question pops up in his mind.

At the beginning of getting the thesis, Professor Fu wanted to give up on Yang Rui, but after finishing the thesis, the anger that Professor Fu accumulated several times was almost exhausted.

Only strong jealousy is burning.

"If this paper was mine, it would be great..." When he read the end of the paper and looked at the hundreds of references, Professor Fu was already full of reverie.

"Dean Cai is here!" An exclamation broke the silence on the court, and also let the discussion burst out:

"Dean Cai is a member of the Academy of Sciences, why did he come here in person?" The students in the outer circle couldn't see the paper itself, and their strong gossip could only go towards others.

The biology students present also immediately gave the best answer at the moment: "Because this is "cell"."

"The members of the Faculty don't know if "cell" has been published."

"Dean Cai has published "Nature", and the impact factor of "Nature" is high enough."

"What is the impact factor?" The basketball guard from Ethnology rolled the ball left and right on his shoulders, perfectly interpreting the spirit of leisure.

The students of the Department of Biology were affected by the previous atmosphere, but they explained in a serious manner: "The impact factor of a journal is the sum of the citations of all papers in a journal in the past two years, divided by the total number of papers published in the journal in the past two years .”

"Oh……"

"The impact factor of "cell" is more than 30 all the year round. However, when a paper like "cell" is published, what is important is not its impact factor, but the number of citations. The number of citations that a good paper can get on "cell" is A lot of."

"Isn't the impact factor an average value?"

"That's because "Cell" doesn't care much about the impact factor anymore, so there are often short papers of one or two pages. You can see that the single volume that Yang Rui produced is so thick. It is not difficult for such papers to have more than 50 citations, you know How many citations did Dean Cai publish in Nature that year?"

"How many?"

"It was more than 500 back then, and there have been about a hundred citations every year for several years." The boy from the Department of Biology sighed: "In my life, if there is a paper with more than a hundred citations, I will die without regret. !"

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