From small town academic to chief scientist

Zhou Yi put down his book when he saw his two roommates coming back one after another around ten o'clock in the evening.

Start turning on the computer and getting ready to submit.

It is impossible for this article "Research on Numerical Methods of Singular Perturbation Problems and Related Multi-scale Data Processing" to be submitted to the four top journals in mathematics.

As for the two top journals of science and nature, it is also impossible.

Zhou Yi searched for it for a long time and read many journals, and found that the Dutch journal "APPLIED NUMERICAL MATHEMATICS" was pretty good.

According to the classification of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, it belongs to Zone 2 SCI, which is mainly free of charge.

This made Zhouyi decide to publish this journal.

After logging in and registering, after finishing some miscellaneous things, the paper I got in the Zhouyi lottery was sent out.

An SCI paper in Zone 2 is second only to the top journals, and its gold content is very high.

Regarding SCI partitions, there are two types of partitions,

One is the JCR partition,

This is formulated by Clarivate Analytics. JCR divides the included journals into 176 different subject categories. Each subject category is divided into 4 areas according to the impact factor of the journal.

The journals with the top 25% of impact factors are in the Q1 area, the journals with the impact factor between 25% and 50% are in the Q2 area, the journals with the impact factor between 50% and 75% are in the Q3 area, and the journals with the impact factor after the 75% are in the Q3 area. It is Q4 area.

Another type of division is the Chinese Academy of Sciences division, which divides all journals in JCR into 13 categories: mathematics, chemistry, biology, earth science, astronomy, engineering technology, medicine, environmental science, agriculture and forestry science, social science, management science and comprehensive journals.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences divides journals according to their impact factors. The top 5% of journals are in Area 1, 6%-20% of journals are in Area 2, 21%-50% of journals are in Area 3, and the rest are Area 4 journals.

The JCR partition is a rectangular partition, while the Chinese Academy of Sciences is a pyramid partition.

Although both zoning methods are relatively authoritative, the Chinese Academy of Sciences zoning is adopted by more institutions as an indicator for scientific research evaluation.

As far as Zhou Yi knows, the scientific research performance awards and professional title evaluations of most domestic universities and scientific research units are weighted according to the CAS divisions.

However, because the division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has received a lot of ruthless diss,

So now some schools have made it clear that they want to be in line with international standards and use Clarivate Analytics’ SCI journal zoning standards.

As for Zhou Yi's second paper "Global Arnoldi-type Algorithm for Solving Large-Scale Non-Hermite Characteristic Problems", Zhou Yi guessed that it is also a SCI paper in Area 2.

SCI, the full name of Science Citation Index, is a citation database founded and published by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) in 1961.

It includes life sciences, medicine, physical chemistry, agriculture, biology, engineering and many other fields, and is used to evaluate the academic level of the entire scientific field. Most countries and regions around the world use SCI to measure a scholar's academic level.

Of course, in addition to SCI, there are two other main evaluation systems, EI and ISTP. However, compared to EI and ISTP, SCI is currently the most important academic system in the world.

Not long after, Zhou Yi saw the status on the webpage showing ‘submitted to editorial office’, which in Chinese means it was sent to the editor’s office.

This journal that Zhou Yi submitted to can take at least half a year. If the editor requires revisions midway, it may take even longer. From writing an SCI article to successfully publishing it, it can take at least half a year.

So after Zhou Yi saw it, he continued to pick up the "Reconciliation Analysis" in his hand and read it.

There are endless books to read, especially mathematics books. Although the foundation of Zhouyi is very solid, this thing is mathematics after all, not literature.

A solid foundation can only make it easier for Zhou Yi to understand, but cannot make Zhou Yi understand it directly.

The knowledge that should be learned still needs to be learned.

In Tang Ping's words, the path of scientific research can only bear sweet fruits after repeated trials and tribulations. There are no shortcuts.

Just when Zhou Yi was watching with gusto, his cell phone suddenly rang.

Zhou Yi originally thought it would be Xia Xue, or Tian Yiguang, or those seniors, but he didn't expect it to be an email.

My paper has actually reached the status of ‘with editor’. This means that the editor has accepted the responsibility of handling the paper.

At this time, if the editor thinks the paper is suitable for the journal, it will be sent for peer review.

Of course, if the paper does not meet the standards of the journal, it will not be ‘with editor’, but the words ‘decision in process’.

After Zhou Yi completed the email step, he swallowed and looked excited. Oh my god, he actually jumped in line. Generally speaking, there is a first-come, first-served principle.

It usually takes about a week.

Immediately afterwards, the status bar of the web page changed to ‘reviewer invited’.

This means that the paper has passed the technical review and the editor has sent a review invitation and is waiting for the reviewer to accept it.

Zhou Yi guarded his laptop and refreshed it every few minutes.

Because this status may change to 'with editor' again, which means that the reviewer refuses to review the manuscript, and the editor needs to find another reviewer.

Fortunately, ten minutes later, the status bar of the web page changed to ‘Under Review’.

Seeing this, Zhou Yi's anxious heart calmed down instantly.

Stable!

At this point, it has been stated that the paper is under review by the reviewers, which is the so-called external review.

The waiting time for this step is very long. According to Zhou Yi Tou’s journals,

The time required is about 2 months to 6 months.

Because these reviewers themselves are also busy scientific researchers, and review is a free job, which is a process of generating electricity for love. Compared with Yang Shuai's new novel, it requires a lot of energy to judge, deduce and evaluate the paper.

Therefore, this process is the most time-consuming in the entire publishing process.

Zhou Yi was not worried at all about the experts' evaluation and deduction. This was a paper drawn by the system's father, and he also showed it to Professor Tang Ping, which basically showed that there was no problem at all.

If there is a problem, it is the reviewer’s fault!

As for whether Professor Tang Ping would plagiarize his own paper, anyone in Zhou Yi could do it, but this righteous old stubborn would definitely not do it.

If there are any problems with my paper, I might take the initiative to revise it for myself. In the end, I won’t even ask for the third or fourth paper.

At his age, academic achievements have already been made, and there are so many papers published that there is no need for a paper like Zhouyi.

For Tang Ping, he hopes that Chongqing University can produce someone like Academician Yang of Chongqing Normal University. Chongqing University needs such people so much.

985 is at the bottom of the rankings, several colleges are not at the top, and Chongqing Normal University and Southwest Normal University are eyeing each other. They need a strong person to support them.

You can’t find one in the short term, but you can develop one in the long term.

Zhou Yi belongs to such a person.

So when Zhou Yi decided to apply for the senior group of the mathematics competition, Tang Ping did not give much persuasion.

Only after Zhou Yi suffered a loss, a longer memory may be more suitable for Zhou Yi's development.

After all, Yuzhou is in the southwestern region. It is not in line with the prosperous areas in the east, let alone international standards. With little information, Zhou Yi still has a long way to go in the future.

There are people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the world. The most indispensable thing in this world is genius.