Tu Xian pedaled his bicycle very quickly, shouting "Give it aside", while rushing into the yard where the Department of Chemical Engineering of Beijing Iron and Steel College was hanging.

Several students chatting and joking with books quickly occupied both sides, watched Tu Xian return to the office area like a racing car, and got off the car with a difficult step and ran into the office.

"What's wrong?" The students passing by were full of curiosity.

Tu Xian himself is even more curious.

He held a letter in his hand. The envelope was wider than the fat man's face, and the front was full of tadpole characters, and the edges were wet with sweat from Tu Xian's palms.

It is impossible not to be nervous. Although this is the fifth paper in Tu Xian's life, it is the first time he wrote it in English and tried to publish it in a foreign journal.

"Biochemical System Ecology", a journal included in the standard SCI.

Tu Xian believed that in Beijing, there would be teachers in schools who didn’t know what SCI was. But he was sure that in a few years, SCI would become a high standard for evaluating the level of papers in the scientific community.

This is an inevitable trend of development. China is also developing similar citation standards, and the lead is the Beijing Library. However, compared with the accumulation of the American Institute of Science and Information Technology and the SCI founded in 1961, it is not easy to keep up with others. There are citation databases and scientific citation indexes in all countries around the world. Some countries have started to do it in the 1960s and 1970s, and have not surpassed SCI so far. You can imagine the heavy barriers in it.

Of course, SCI itself does not create papers, it is just an included paper and journal.

The vast majority of researchers just want to place their papers in a valuable journal.

For example, "Biochemical System Ecology", in Tu Xian's view, is a high-end journal in the chemistry and biology industry. Compared with it, the relevant Chinese journals of the same period are as weak as snails. After all, these journals that have been suspended for several years, and some have been suspended for more than ten years, are still as fragile as babies.

It will not take until 20 years to have good journals to appear on the world stage.

In China in 1983, a researcher wanted to make an appearance on the world stage, and his only way was to write an English paper.

Tu Xian did this and hoped to be the first teacher in our school to publish papers in a foreign biology journal.

Beijing Iron and Steel College is a traditional metallurgy college. In the 1950s, it merged metallurgy majors from six universities including Tsinghua University and other universities and was established. It is a strong college and also has the slogan "Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Steel Lao Lao Lao".

With the progress of the times, Beijing Iron and Steel College is also actively expanding, and it is imperative to establish a specialized biology department.

Tu Xian himself likes biology, and coming to Beijing Iron and Steel College is also the result of passive allocation. Therefore, he heard that there will be a biology major in the future, so he was extremely happy and devoted himself to experiments all day long.

In this regard, the school also provided support. If they wanted to change the school name to "Beijing University of Science and Technology", they naturally had to have a complete range of science and technology majors. The school teachers expanded their research scope, which was most in line with this direction.

Tu Xian's level is also very good. His previous papers have been published in high-end journals in China. He is considered the best among young lecturers. With his undergraduate degree, if it goes well, he will be able to be awarded an associate professor in at most two years.

Of course, whether it can be evaluated depends on various soft and hard power.

A paper published in a foreign journal will definitely bring the best opportunities during this period.

When I switched to the metallurgy major at the Beijing Iron and Steel College, I wanted to be an associate professor. It is a basic condition to publish articles in foreign journals. Only by publishing three or five articles can I be more than a dozen of them. In fact, Tu Xian is currently in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and has published papers in foreign journals. After all, this is Beijing, the best capital of China, and the center of political, cultural and science and technology.

However, the biology major that has not yet been established in the School of Steel is different. There are only a few people who change careers and do biology, but none of them publish papers in foreign journals. There are always many discounts ahead.

Tu Xian rubbed his hands, silently chanted "Blessings from Gods and Buddhas in the sky", and then tore open the envelope and couldn't wait to read it.

Tu Xian didn't watch it in the mailroom because he was worried that the result would be bad or that he would lose his composure.

Hiding in his own laboratory and office, Tu Xian can express himself to his heart's content, whether it is excitement and disappointment or prayer posture.

The short letters were all in English. Tu Xian continued to read them stumblingly, and then saw the opinions of two reviewers:

Modify the text!

Although the two reviewers had the same opinions, their evaluations were completely different. One of the reviewers simply made a judgment, while the other said a long paragraph, and then pointed out several major statement errors in his paper.

Tu Xian breathed a sigh of relief and fell on the chair before he realized that his back was already wet.

"It's not approved immediately, it's good to modify the writing..." Tu Xian smiled and was a little worried in a flash.

His English skills are extremely average. He has already asked for help from his masters when writing this way. If he needs to modify it, he will find someone again, which means he will owe a considerable favor.

"I owe you." Tu Xian gritted his teeth, folded the letters and stuffed them into his briefcase, picked up the bicycle and went to the convenience store when he went out.

When he arrived at the place, Tu Xian took out all the money he had on him, totaling 800 yuan and 60 cents. He bought two cans of lunch meat, and the remaining money was just enough to buy two kilograms of pastries.

Tu Xian carefully picked the pastry with a complete appearance, watched the female boss of the convenience store tied it up neatly with hemp paper and hemp rope, then took out the cloth bag for buying groceries and put it in, and then rode his bike to the family building.

Nowadays, when visiting relatives and friends, one or two pounds of pastries are very expensive gifts. Under normal circumstances, even if you don’t have empty hands, you can take a few cents of apples.

Canned meat is only brought when asking someone to do something. Canned braised meat with pure meat is too expensive and not affordable. Tu Xian bought lunch meat, which also invested a lot.

Two minutes later, Tu Xian parked the car in the carport in the family area, carried a cloth bag and a smile on his face, walked through the small garden, came under the door sign No. 35, and slapped the door lock.

"Here you come." The sound of the child running came. When the door opened, a boy with high legs was staring at Tu Xian and the cloth bag in his hand.

"Is Professor Lu here?" Tu Xian touched the child's head and handed him a piece of candy.

The boy nodded vigorously and said, "Grandpa is at home."

"Can you take me there?" Tu Xian bent down and smiled.

Professor Lu is a retired professor at the Iron and Steel Academy and once studied abroad. Because of his poor health, he was not rehired after retirement and became a translator. His works were not only metallurgical textbooks, but also literary works. They are recognized as English masters at the Iron and Steel Academy.

The only one who can ask for help is a retired professor like Professor Lu. Other teachers have their own jobs and have no time to sleep every day, so how can I be embarrassed to ask others to help me modify the article?

Of course, Tu Xian was not the only one who asked Professor Lu to modify the article. When he entered the living room, he saw another familiar face and greeted him. Both of them looked down at the books they carried with him.

Time is precious, how can it be wasted in unnecessary chats?

Publishing high-level papers is a hard requirement for universities and a hard requirement for universities for classrooms. How the foreign sciences view the level of the Chinese scientific community is also the level and number of papers published by Chinese scholars. As for China's current state, the so-called high-level papers must be published in foreign journals.

If you want to publish papers abroad at the Beijing Institute of Steel, half of the teachers who have poor English proficiency will come to see Professor Lu, and people from other schools often appear. Tu Xian has met his peers here more than once.

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, one person came out of the study room inside, thanked with a smile, nodded to the two of them, and went out.

The middle-aged teacher who came in front quickly got up, squeezed out a smile and said, "Professor Lu, I'm here again."

"Come in." Professor Lu's voice was hoarse and he did not show up.

Tu Xian raised his head and then waited outside with peace of mind.

This time, he waited for half an hour before he was able to enter.

Professor Lu still said with a smile, "Come in, come in." His thin body sat behind the wide old-fashioned desk, and his bare forehead was blocked by the desk lamp. From the door, it seemed like he was wearing a flower feather.

"Professor Lu, there are some language problems. After thinking about it, I can only find you." Tu Xian put the cloth bag on the chest of drawers at the entrance. There were already two packs of things there, probably left by the person in front of him.

Tu Xian thought for a while, but did not take out the things in the bag. He sat at the desk, put down the file bag, took out the letter from "Biochemical System Ecology" to himself, and pushed it to Professor Lu, saying, "This is the letter sent back by the journal agency, saying that I want me to modify the text."

"Oh, I'll take a look." After Professor Lu retired, he sat at home and worked every day, usually helping people correct things during the day. When he was free, he was very busy and he was very busy. After his family advised him a few times, he saw that he insisted, so he would let him go.

The reply was very short, Professor Lu scanned it and finished reading it.

Out of responsibility, he read it again and nodded, "Xiao Tu, congratulations, this article seems to be able to be published."

"Yes, it's just how to change the writing, I have no clue."

"Have the paper been taken with the original manuscript?"

"Take it."

"Okay, come to my side, I'll tell you..." Professor Lu took the manuscript and looked at it, found a red pen from the pen holder, and stroked it.

Tu Xian looked and recorded, seriously as he was a student.

Tu Xian’s original manuscript looks like more than a thousand words. Professor Lu helped to modify some of it and explained the rest, so he asked Tu Xian to sit next to modify it himself.

Professor Lu saw that his modification was smooth, so he picked up the journal's reply letter and read it.

After a while, Professor Lu suddenly said with a smile on his face: "I guess, this second reviewer is also a Chinese."

"Ah? Why?"

"Looking at the grammar, although it seems quite similar, the habitual usage is British and the grammar is American, which means that people are not from English-speaking countries. If you look at the structure of this paragraph, isn't it very smooth?" Professor Lu always works as a translator and takes students, so he brought a tone of investigation.

Tu Xian nodded slowly and said, "It's quite smooth."

Professor Lu smiled and said, "You are just right because the paragraph structure is Chinese, so you feel like it is right. The foreigner's writing is not so right. So, this second reviewer is probably a Chinese."

Tu Xian was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and said, "I didn't expect that I hit my own person's hand. No wonder his comment was written in such a detailed detail."

"Well, I've reviewed it very seriously. However, it may not be from our mainland, and it is possible for compatriots from Hong Kong and Taiwan to find out. If you want to know, just ask. Although they are anonymous, there should not be many reviewers in the journal Biochemical System Ecology in Asia."

The speaker is unintentional and the listener is intentional. Professor Lu just said it casually, but Tu Xian remembered it in his heart.

He was fighting alone in the Iron and Steel Academy. When he wanted to help his colleagues in biology, he would go to other schools. Since he was not familiar with him, it seemed like a good choice to talk to a reviewer of a high-end journal.
Chapter completed!