I Have a Research Support System

Back at 216, Xu Qiu suddenly remembered the phenomenon he noticed when reading the literature:

In the field of organic photovoltaics, the large group is more watered in AM and JACS, but less watered in NC.

After seeing the page fee of NC today, Xu Qiu began to wonder if it was because NC was too expensive that they couldn't afford it...

It's not impossible.

Since NC is so expensive, how much is the page cost of the main journal of Nature?

Curiously, Xu Qiu logged on to Nature's official website, nature.com, entered the "Journal Information" column, and began to search.

Under "Journal Information-Writing to Author-Publishing Options-Traditional Publishing Mode", there are a series of processes such as article delivery, review, publication, etc., and a sentence "Published articles will be provided to subscribe to "Nature" magazine or pay for reading Institutions and individuals for specific articles", but did not indicate the specific page fee.

If there is no indication, there is a high probability that it is free.

Soon, Xu Qiu noticed that there was a column of "Open Access (Open Access)" immediately under "Traditional Publishing Mode", indicating that authors could also open source their own articles.

Unlike NC, where all manuscripts are forced to be open-sourced, the main publication of Nature is up to the author to choose whether to open-source or not.

Moreover, it also listed three benefits of "open access":

For authors, their work will be seen by more people, and open access articles will be viewed and cited more frequently than articles with paywalls (blocking systems that prevent non-paying users from viewing web content);

For readers, they can access and build upon the latest work and datasets in their field.

For funders of articles, the work they fund will have a wider audience and have wider impact.

At the end, the point comes.

Selecting "Open Access" requires a page fee of 9400 Euros.

9,400 euros, rounded up, is 100,000 soft sister coins.

This is such a huge sum of money that it is possible to buy a bathroom of one or two square meters in Shanghai and install a toilet.

Just when Xu Qiu was filled with emotions, Han Jiaying had already finished testing the devices prepared today, and with a smile on her face, she bounced out of the inner laboratory. Behind her was Chen Wanqing, and the senior sister was also smiling. Return to the decadent look in the morning.

Han Jiaying propped her body on the back of Xu Qiu's chair, wrapped her arms around his neck from behind, and whispered in her ear: "Brother, guess how much I have made with this batch of devices~"

Xu Qiu was caught off guard by the junior girl's sudden attack, but he quickly displayed the self-cultivation of an actor, carefully probing, "Could it be that it's broken 8%?"

Han Jiaying said cheerfully: "Not only that, guess again~"

Feeling the soft touch of the junior girl behind her, Xu Qiu said in an exaggerated tone: "My God, it can't exceed 9%, right?!"

"Bingo!" Han Jiaying let go of her hands, moved two steps, and sat down next to Xu Qiu, "Referring to the optimization conditions of the previous system of senior brother, the efficiency has reached 9.05%, and it's a hit!"

"Congratulations, junior." Xu Qiu shook his head helplessly, "Hey, I just broke the world record, and within a few days, I was broken again."

Chen Wanqing interrupted suddenly: "Can you be as miserable as I am? Just now, the efficiency of my device broke 6%. If I only read the "Nature·Materials" with an efficiency of 10% in the morning, I can still be happy for a day. Now even What a world record for a day..."

While the three of them were chatting, there was a heavy closing sound of the door in the corridor, as well as the familiar "da da da" footsteps.

They immediately started the "pretend discussion" mode:

"I think you can try post-annealing."

"The amount of DIO added can be further optimized."

"The concentration of the solution can be increased a little bit."

Soon, Wei Xingsi appeared at the door of 216 with a briefcase in his hands.

He looked a little tired, looked around the interior, saw the three people at the desk, and asked casually: "How is the device doing today?"

After being silent for two seconds, Xu Qiu took the initiative to say: "Han Jiaying's system reaches a maximum of 9%, and Chen Wanqing's system reaches a maximum of 6%."

Now, Xu Qiu has replaced Senior Sister Cong as the leader of the organic trio. On the one hand, Xu Qiu's current scientific research ability has emerged, and on the other hand, Senior Sister is not willing to face Teacher Wei directly.

"9%..." Wei Xingsi looked at Xu Qiu, then at Han Jiaying, thought for a while, and said with a little expectation: "How much is it, is there a chance to break ten?"

"9.05%," Xu Qiu thought for a while, and said, "The chance of breaking through 10% is not great. Her system is very similar to my previous one, and the optimal device processing conditions will not deviate too much."

"Well, I understand," Wei Xingsi nodded towards Xu Qiu, then turned to Han Jiaying and asked, "How is your article writing now, is it the second generation system?"

"Hmm..." Han Jiaying estimated, "It's about 70% complete."

"Change the format of the article to ACS, and prepare to vote for CM." Seeing Han Jiaying's puzzled look, Wei Xingsi explained, "Otherwise, your third-generation system with 9% efficiency will be difficult to sell. If the second-generation It is a pity that the two systems of the third generation have been combined into one. After all, the characterization of the second generation is complete, and the article is almost finished. It should be easy to vote for a CM."

"Okay." Han Jiaying nodded half-understood, and after a second, she said, "By the way, the TAS data from Mr. Feng Shengdong hasn't been tested yet."

"Then tell him not to test the second-generation system, and then we will quickly send a batch of samples of the third-generation system to the third-generation system, and put the analysis of TAS in the third-generation system." Wei Xingsi paused, turned towards Xu Qiu said: "After your NC article was rejected, there is nothing else to do recently."

Xu Qiu nodded in response: "No." He probably guessed what Teacher Wei was going to say.

"Okay," Wei Xingsi nodded, "If there is nothing else, you can help Han Jiaying to do an experiment or write an article together. You can discuss the specific division of labor and try to... within two weeks, the third generation 9% of the system Is it possible to write an article?"

Xu Qiu thought about it secretly. Now that the key device data and GIWAXS data have been obtained, TAS and TRPL can be entrusted to Mr. Feng Shengdong. There are actually not many remaining signs. Tight, but not impossible.

In fact, Xu Qiu also knew that for this article, Teacher Wei's psychological expectation might be three weeks or a month to finish writing, but he would deliberately say two weeks, as long as the time spent did not exceed Teacher Wei's actual psychological expectation, he There are trades over there.

It's a bit similar to when parents woke up their children in middle school: "It's seven o'clock, I'm going to be late!", but the actual time may be only half past six.

It’s fine if they keep lying about half an hour in advance. I’m most afraid that when you are used to the half-hour advance, and then your parents suddenly tell the truth one day, then you will be left alone, half an hour late, and you will be punished once.

Taking back the divergent thoughts, Xu Qiu nodded and said, "It should be no problem."

Seeing this, Han Jiaying responded, "I can do it too."

Xu Qiu added, "However, Teacher Feng Shengdong..."

"Don't worry about Feng Shengdong, I will tell him and let him do our test first," Wei Xingsi smiled, "Speaking of which, their research group with special characterization equipment is really taking advantage of it. , Write two paragraphs, you can get a piece of corresponding author of NC, AM, but there are advantages and disadvantages, it is really difficult for them to publish articles by themselves.”

"Chen Wanqing, how are you doing?" Wei Xingsi paused, and said to himself, "Oh, I seem to have mentioned it just now, it's more than 6%, right?"

Chen Wanqing gave an embarrassed "hmm".

There are 9% of the schoolgirls in front of Zhuyu, and the 6% of the schoolgirls are not so surprised, but Teacher Wei still encouraged: "It's hard work, hurry up and write the article, first write in AM format, anyway , I still have to try to make a shot.”

After speaking, he glanced at the inner laboratory again, but he didn't go in, and turned around to leave.

When Teacher Wei left, Chen Wanqing suddenly gossiped: "Guess why he went, would it be..."

Han Jiaying answered casually: "What else can I do, let's go home after get off work."

Xu Qiu shook his head and said, "I guess he's gone to the general health care."

"Big health care?" Han Jiaying blushed suddenly: "That's right, that's the one, the kind that's very comfortable..."

"That's right, Mr. Wei submitted four articles in a row, and his body was a bit overwhelmed. This afternoon, I saw that he stood up and continued to revise halfway through the revision of the article." Xu Qiu paused and explained, "It's so late. It’s definitely not appropriate to go to the hospital, you should go out and get a massage to exercise your muscles and bones.”

"Tch," Han Jiaying retorted, "What kind of health care is this called? It's obviously killing chickens."

"Let's not talk about this," Han Jiaying raised the question just now, "Why did you transfer this job to CM?"

"On the one hand..., on the other hand..." Xu Qiu explained the previous analysis process to the junior girl in detail, and finally concluded: "The main thing is to seek stability."

"That's it," Han Jiaying understood this time, and asked again: "Then what about my other B3T system?"

"Let me think about it," Xu Qiu thought for a while, and said, "Let's save it for the last time. We still have to compete with other research groups for time and give priority to publishing the system with better performance. In the end, B3T's system may only publish one article." ACSAMI, but the second district is also an article."

"The second district is also an article, do you think it's a human language?" Chen Wanqing interrupted suddenly.

"Sister, I didn't mean to target you, I mean..." Xu Qiu said.

"Huh?" Chen Wanqing stared, raised her fist and waved it: "Continue."

"It doesn't look like a deterrent, it's even a bit like a lucky cat..." Xu Qiu stopped talking and changed the subject: "I mean, if the structure of ICIN can be done well in the future, it's not easy for the senior sister to post casually. , and a few more are possible.”

"But now it's hard to get to 6%," Chen Wanqing sighed softly, "I'm getting angry when I talk about this, why didn't they play cards according to common sense, and directly drove the efficiency to 10%, what do others do? "

"If you don't reach 10%, you won't be able to publish "Nature Materials", NM." Xu Qiu explained casually.

"That's true," Chen Wanqing said, "Speaking of the sub-journal of "Nature", the abbreviation is so strange, it's NC, and it's NM..."

"Maybe N is special," Xu Qiu said with a smile, "Nature Optics and Nature Physics are both NP, and Nature Chemistry is also NC..."