The Science Fiction World of Xueba

"What? "Nature" over? Great!"

Li Changqing's excited voice came from the other end of the phone.

Although Li Changqing did not sign the paper, the experiment was done by his team, and he himself gave a lot of support.

You know, his experimental team hasn't published a top journal paper for several years.

Publishing an article in Nature at this time is also very beneficial to the future development of his laboratory.

Not to mention, I took this opportunity to make friends with Pang Xuelin, who is destined to have a great influence in Chinese academic circles in the future.

After a few years, when Li Changqing is ready to be evaluated as an academician, this favor alone can increase his chances by 10 to 20%.

"Oh, by the way, Professor Pang, is this a letter or an article?"

Li Changqing asked.

A letter is a so-called "communication" and is an initial introduction to an original scientific research result, the content of which is of interest to researchers in other fields.

Article is a long paper, which is a more comprehensive and thorough introduction to a certain research work, and represents a significant improvement in people's understanding of a certain thing.

The layout of "Nature" magazine only allows about 2 "Article" papers and about 16 "Letter" papers to be published every week.

Therefore, the competition for "Article" papers is more intense.

In fact, many "Letter" papers were originally submitted as "Article" papers, and then shortened according to the comments of the editors of "Nature".

Pang Xuelin said: "It's Article, not a single word has been changed!"

"Awesome!"

Li Changqing couldn't help but praise.

Except for the data citing the results of the experimental group, the paper was written by Pang Xuelin himself, and being able to publish it in "Nature" without changing a word is enough to show the level and weight of this paper.

After chatting with Li Changqing, Pang Xuelin called the other members of the team one by one.

Needless to say, the excitement of those experimental dogs, even the associate professor who was the first author was extremely excited.

The associate professor was almost forty years old, and it was the first time that an article was published in Nature after so many years.

This article is a great weight for him to select professors and independently form his own experimental team.

...

Editorial Office of Nature, London, UK.

"Carl, why don't we make a bet to see whether the possibility of the same name and surname is more likely to be that Professor Pang Xuelin. Think about it, Pang Xuelin is currently conducting his Ponzi geometry seminar at Jiangda University. It is said that he is still sorting out the textbooks of Ponzi geometry, so how could he still have the energy to do research on carbon nanotubes."

Richard Gallagher, editor-in-chief of the life sciences editorial group, was sitting at the desk of Karl Zimelis, the editor-in-chief of the natural sciences group, holding a cup of coffee.

Zimelis smiled and said: "Then do you think the chances of a genius doing the same outstanding research in different fields are high, and it is still the same university, the same name, and also has the title of professor, but they belong to two different schools?" How likely are people?"

Richard Gallagher was slightly taken aback.

The paper editors of Nature are divided into two groups: Life Sciences Group and Natural Sciences Group.

The head of the life sciences group is Richard Gallagher, an immunologist; the head of the natural sciences group is Karl Zimelis, a materials scientist.

At this time, the editors of the editorial department were discussing one by one, watching the two big shots with each other with a smile on their faces.

During this period of time, the paper "Preparation and Characterization of High-Purity Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes" caused quite a stir in the editorial department of "Nature".

The reason!

Naturally, it is related to Pang Xuelin, the author of this paper.

The name Pang Xuelin is currently in the academic world, and there are really few people who have never heard of him.

On the one hand because of his age, on the other hand because of his academic achievements in mathematics.

Among other things, the application of his Ponzi geometry theory in solving nonlinear partial differential equations has become a research hotspot in the entire scientific community.

Even many non-mathematical scholars are studying his papers.

After all, the problem of solving nonlinear partial differential equations can be regarded as the most closely combined field of mathematics and natural science.

However, such a professor with the same name and surname as the tycoon in the mathematics world who still works in the same school suddenly submitted a research paper on carbon nanotubes to "Nature", and this paper is also of a very high standard .

In particular, the experimental methods used and the results presented in the paper can be regarded as the most outstanding achievement in the field of carbon nanotubes in the past ten years.

Therefore, whether the author of this paper was written by Pang Xuelin has become the focus of attention of the editorial department of "Nature".

These days, such debates have occurred several times among editors.

In the end, even the two editor-in-chiefs got involved.

Karl Zimelis said with a smile: "Well, this paper has just passed the review, I'll just send him a receipt email to ask, won't it be clear!"

As he said that, Zimelis ignored Gallagher's reaction and sent an email directly.

What Zimelis didn't expect was that after only a few minutes, he received a reply from Pang Xuelin: It's me!

Zimelis shrugged his shoulders at Gallagher and said with a smile, "Looks like we don't have to argue, I won."

An incredible look flashed in Gallagher's eyes, and he murmured, "How is this possible?!"

...

Naturally, Pang Xuelin was not aware of the controversy in the journal Nature, and even if he knew, he would probably just smile.

In fact, the drafting of the thesis did not cause too many waves in his mind.

After all, this paper has long been tested by another world and has become a classic experiment in the field of carbon nanomaterials.

Failure to pass the manuscript can only show that the level of editors and reviewers of "Nature" is problematic.

Sure enough, as expected.

The next morning, the paper was published on Nature Online as scheduled.

At the same time, the Jiangda official website also released related news, and congratulated Pang Xuelin and his team.

After all, Jiang University only publishes about ten CNS-level papers a year, and most of them are letters. It is not a big deal even for those professors at the Changjiang Scholars level to be able to publish an Article in Nature. easy job.

In the next few days, there were also some reports in the media about Pang Xuelin's paper published in "Nature".

But apart from a certain amount of attention in the academic circle, it did not cause much repercussions outside the circle.

After all, in the eyes of the public, with Pang Xuelin's academic achievements, publishing a paper in a top journal does not seem to be a big deal.

Even if this thesis has nothing to do with Pang Xuelin's own major.

Originally, this matter was going to pass silently, but Pang Xuelin himself did not expect that a questioning article suddenly appeared on the Internet, which pushed him to the forefront.

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