Traveling through 1980 to become a top student

Chapter 60

The next day, Gao Chi took the paper and asked Lin Jinglan, "Where is your paper going to be published?"

Last night, Gao Chi read Lin Jinglan's paper over and over all night.What he originally thought was to find a random domestic journal and ask Lin Jinglan to submit a manuscript. After all, Lin Jinglan had just graduated from high school, and the paper she wrote was likely to be rejected, and it didn't make much difference where she submitted it.But now Gao Chi feels that Lin Jinglan's thesis can be published in the top domestic journals, and where it is published is a matter worth discussing.

Lin Jinglan naturally had a plan in mind for this question, she said directly to Gao Chi, "I want to vote for Energy Policy first."

Gao Chi stopped until Lin Jinglan said the title of a foreign journal, and he couldn't help showing a look of surprise on his face.He understood the value of Lin Jinglan's paper, but he only thought of publishing this paper in the top domestic journals. He didn't expect that Lin Jinglan would dare to think more than him, and even wanted to publish it in foreign journals!
Although Gao Chi is not so willing to admit it, in fact, the influence of most foreign journals today is not greater than that of domestic journals by 01:30.You must know that English-language journals are read and contributed by researchers from all countries. The competition for publishing papers is many times greater than that published in domestic journals.

Although Lin Jinglan's answer surprised Gao Chi, he pondered for a moment and did not immediately deny Lin Jinglan's idea.Lin Jinglan's paper was published in an English journal, and Gao Chi thought it was qualified.But Gao Chi also knows that whether a paper can be accepted or not depends not only on the quality of the paper, but also on whether the paper conforms to the positioning of the journal and the preferences of the reviewers.Gao Chi has already approved Lin Jinglan's idea of ​​submitting to English journals, but he does not think that the Energy Policy Lin Jinglan chooses will be suitable.There are so many English journals, Lin Jinglan, who has not entered the university, no matter how smart and talented in scientific research, it is impossible to choose the right journal to publish the paper in one go, after all, it depends on a lot of experience and experience to support it.

Gao Chi now admires this talented junior sister very much, so he is naturally willing to help her.In fact, Gao Chi has another layer of thoughts. He feels that as a senior brother, he can't even compare with his junior sister in every way. If he can help her in the selection of journals, Gao Chi can prove that he is always better than her. The amazing place is that his hard work for so many years has not been in vain, otherwise he has worked so hard for so many years as an undergraduate and graduate student, but he can't even compare with a little girl who just graduated from high school. is a joke.

"You want to submit to an English journal, right?" Gao Chi nodded with a smile, "Okay, senior brother knows. Senior brother will go back and help you see if Energy Policy is suitable, and if not, then help you choose a few suitable journals , and discuss it with the professor later to see which one to vote for.”

Although Gao Chi said so, in fact, he has already decided that the Energy Policy is inappropriate.You can tell just by the name - "Energy Policy" - it must be policy-oriented, and it should not be considered an engineering journal, but more like a social science journal.

Of course, Lin Jinglan didn't know Gao Chi's thoughts, and thanked him with a smile, "Then please trouble brother."

After Gao Chi returned, he tried his best to select journals for Lin Jinglan, listed the journals he was familiar with one by one, and then eliminated them one by one, and finally selected five for Lin Jinglan that he thought were the most suitable, and prepared to show them to Professor Zhang Look.

Professor Zhang was amazed when he saw Lin Jinglan's thesis.He read Lin Jinglan's thesis from beginning to end several times in one breath, reading the Chinese version and then the English version.Professor Zhang stood up involuntarily at some point, pacing back and forth in the room with Lin Jinglan's thesis in his hands.

"This time I really found a treasure..." Professor Zhang muttered to himself.

He thinks that he is already extremely talented in scientific research and willing to delve into it.But he asked himself, when he was Lin Jinglan's age, he never reached Lin Jinglan's level and height.Even when he graduated from university, his level may not be as high as that of Lin Jinglan who has just graduated from high school now.In terms of the structure, logic, and wording and sentence making of Lin Jinglan's thesis alone, he should have reached this level when he graduated from graduate school.As for the further step, Lin Jinglan's vision for choosing the topic of the thesis-Professor Zhang sighed-I am afraid that he is not as good as Lin Jinglan now.

When many scholars write papers, others will be amazed when they see them. Why is his paper designed so well?The experiments are advancing step by step, and the theory is deepening layer by layer, all of which are linked together?
But as long as they are experienced researchers, they all understand that a perfect paper is not designed, but cut out, just like cutting down a tree, whether it is experimental or theoretical research, there will always be many detours and a lot of useless work.When writing a thesis, cut off those useless branches, and the remaining backbone that does not deviate will look like a well-designed thesis.

Although the cut off branches are all the time and painstaking efforts of researchers, but what can be done? Scientific research itself is a matter of failures more than successes. If one of the ten roads can be passed through, it is remarkable. achieved.

But Professor Zhang suddenly became uncertain about Lin Jinglan's thesis.The structure of Lin Jinglan's thesis is really exquisite, there is no redundant part, but Lin Jinglan has been in the laboratory for such a short time, it is not easy to finish the work mentioned in her thesis, Professor Zhang is sure that Lin Jinglan No more useless attempts were made.

Professor Zhang couldn't believe that Lin Jinglan could do this?

It seems that she always knows what the result of every step she takes is, and what to do next.

This level is simply terrifying.Professor Zhang may believe that some academics who have spent their entire lives in scientific research can sometimes do it, but a little girl who just graduated from high school?
Professor Zhang smiled and shook his head, feeling that he was thinking too much.Lin Jinglan must have been very lucky this time to get such a good result by chance.

Professor Zhang was thinking about it when the doorbell in the office rang.Professor Zhang came back to his senses, "Please come in."

Gao Chi pushed the door open and passed a piece of paper in his hand to Professor Zhang, "Professor, Lin Jinglan wants to submit her paper to an English journal. Where is more suitable?"

Professor Zhang smiled and took the paper in Gao Chi's hand, "I still want to tell Jing Lan to send her paper abroad. It would be too wasteful for such a good paper to be sent to China." Professor Zhang said Here, with a long sigh, "The gap between us and the international community is still too far away."

Professor Zhang's eyes moved down slowly, and he read several periodicals written by Gao Chi on the paper, but his expression became more and more dignified, until finally, Professor Zhang put the paper away, "I feel that these journals are not suitable. ...I'll find out if there is a more suitable one later..."

Gao Chi had a look of surprise on his face. He had spent a lot of effort to pick out these journals. Could it be that they were all inappropriate?
But Professor Zhang's authority is here, and Gao Chi naturally couldn't refute it, so he agreed and withdrew.

"Senior brother, what does Professor Zhang say? Has it been decided which one to submit my paper to?" Lin Jinglan asked.

Gao Chi shook his head, "No, the professor said that the journals we came up with are not suitable, and he will look for more suitable ones."

Lin Jinglan was a little surprised when she heard the words, "None of them are suitable? Does Professor Zhang think Energy Policy is not enough?"

Gao Chi was taken aback. He did not write the journal Energy Policy on the paper he presented to Professor Zhang. He had already excluded this journal.But in order to avoid embarrassment, Gao Chi didn't tell Lin Jinglan the truth, but only answered vaguely.

Lin Jinglan still couldn't figure out what was wrong with the Energy Policy. Just as she was thinking about it, she saw Professor Zhang walk into the study room of the graduate students and strode towards her and Gao Chi.

"Jing Lan, I have a preliminary idea of ​​which one to submit your paper to." Professor Zhang glanced at Lin Jinglan and Gao Chi, and said loudly, "I think your paper is especially suitable for Energy Policy!"

Lin Jinglan and Gao Chi were stunned at the same time, with surprise on their faces.

Professor Zhang was taken aback when he saw the reactions of Lin Jinglan and Gao Chi, "What's the matter? Neither of you has heard of this journal?"

Gao Chi looked at Professor Zhang, then at Lin Jinglan, his mouth was half open, but he didn't know what to say, he just let out a sound from his throat.

Seeing Gao Chi's reaction, Lin Jinglan's thoughts changed sharply, and she wanted to understand what was going on.Apparently, Gao Chi felt that the Energy Policy she wanted to submit was not good, so he didn't report it to Professor Zhang, but reported the journal he wanted to Professor Zhang.Unexpectedly, Professor Zhang rejected all the journals listed by Gao Chi, and when he thought about it again, his thoughts coincided with hers.So this embarrassing situation appeared.

Lin Jinglan came back to her senses and saw that Gao Chi was still at a loss, so she said to Professor Zhang, "No, Professor, I know this journal, I was just surprised because I was surprised why I didn't think of this journal. Brother Gao should be the same The reason, isn't it, brother?"

Gao Chi never expected that Lin Jinglan would figure out the whole story so quickly.What surprised him the most was that Lin Jinglan not only showed no signs of displeasure, but even helped him out in front of Professor Zhang.

Gao Chi felt extremely ashamed for a while, thinking that if he encountered such a thing, he would definitely be angry and proud. At the very least, he would tell Professor Zhang that the journal he chose at the beginning was Energy Policy, to show that he and the professor had a good relationship. same vision.

Professor Zhang heard what Lin Jinglan said, so he didn't think too much about it, thinking that Lin Jinglan and Gao Chi's surprise was all because of this reason.

Professor Zhang continued, "I think this journal is very suitable for Jing Lan's paper. But there is only one thing that makes me not so sure—"

(End of this chapter)