From small clinic to medical empire

Chapter 221 The Old Dog Protects Food
"Practitioners in China:
While reviewing a submission recently, I noticed an odd paper citation.

After verification, the quotation comes from an article titled "The Research and Judgment Method of Optic Nerve Types" in the November issue of your magazine last year.

I don't know how you guys got included in the database, but anyway, publishing such irresponsible articles will greatly reduce the reputation of your journal.

As a rigorous scientific worker, I must ask you to withdraw the manuscript as soon as possible to avoid misleading more scholars. "

After reading Professor Anderson's first email, Zhang Zifan was still a little strange.

Although the old man's words were a bit aggressive and arbitrary, he wasn't as rude as Yang Tingting said, right?

After all, the clinical classification of nerve bundles is an academic problem.

Suddenly found that a cracking method appeared in a small magazine, and it was normal to question it.

Doubt is one of the driving forces behind scientific research.

Zhang Zifan was not disgusted.

As a result, Yang Tingting immediately showed Zhang Zifan the follow-up email.

As the deputy editor-in-chief of Haoran Academic Journal, Yang Tingting responded immediately after receiving unfriendly letters from peer experts.

Generally speaking, although "Hao Ran Academic Journal" was established not long ago, the review of articles has always been rigorous.

If you have doubts about the content of a certain article, you can follow international practice and do repeated experiments yourself, or contact me to request experimental guidance, or ask the author to issue more detailed experimental records.

If it is verified that there are major errors in the experimental results, the editorial department will reject the manuscript.

However, Yang Tingting's polite reply seemed to stimulate Anderson's sensitive nerves.

He replied:

"Replicating such a whimsical experiment is a complete waste of time.

In the past 20 years, you Chinese have been engaged in academic fraud, which is a secret known to the whole world.

So I once again ask you to delete the relevant article immediately, and I will complain to the official Science Citation Index about your unethical behavior. "

Afterwards, like a madman, Anderson sent several more emails, pointing out that "Journal of Haoran Academy" lacked authoritative peer review.

Other published papers, such as "25 New Techniques for Gland Preservation in Thyroid Surgery", are outrageous sensational articles.

Faced with such a reply, Yang Tingting was both angry and powerless.

Because academic fraud is indeed the weakness of domestic academic circles.

It can even be said that some people have refreshed people's cognitive bottom line time and time again.

"Although I feel very angry, I am even more angry because I have no power to refute!" Yang Tingting said depressedly.

Zhang Zifan felt that this man's reaction seemed a little abnormal.

First of all, in any case, it is extremely irresponsible to refuse to conduct repeated experiments or further verification, and to deny the results of papers published in formal academic journals based on one's own experience.

This approach is the opposite of Anderson's professed rigor.

Perhaps the rigor he thought did not apply to him.

Secondly, it doesn't make sense for him to use the academic fraud of some people in China as an example.

It’s because of fraud, it’s a bit like doping in the Olympics.

Everyone in the world is making fakes, it's nothing more than how much, and whether it has been discovered.

According to Americans' own statistics, the quality of Chinese papers is not low.

It is slightly inferior to Europe and the United States, but its ability overwhelms its "craftsmanship" neighbor Japan, not to mention the big brothers such as North Korea, Russia, India, Australia, and Brazil.

That is to say, everyone thinks that we have a lot of academic fraud, mainly due to the large number of total papers in our country, and naturally there are more scum in it.

Another thing is that distance creates beauty, and the media doesn't report much about foreign affairs.

Created the impression that foreigners are very strict.

This seems like a joke told by Professor Jin Canrong.

When he was young, he heard from the Japanese that the Chinese had ethnic defects and were sloppy in doing things.

He agreed.

I think the Chinese are so-so.

Because there is no comparison, just compare with the Japanese, we are indeed more sloppy.

But later, he went to the United States.

He discovered that Americans are just as careless as we are.

Later, when I went to Russia, I found that it was so-so.

Later, when he went to Brazil and India, Professor Jin finally realized that there is no bottom line for being so-so!

So obviously it is a common problem all over the world.

And as long as they don't compare themselves with the perverted nations like Japan and Germany, the Chinese are definitely not bad in so-so.

But it is said by those with a heart that so-so is a unique problem of the Chinese nation, which is wrong.

The same is true for the quality of papers and the falsification of papers.

Generally speaking, major academic journals still prefer to publish Chinese manuscripts.

Many research institutions even like to add a Chinese name among the team members. It is said that this can increase the rate of draft approval.

If that's the case, why is this Anderson man so anxious to file a complaint against "Haoran Academy Journal"?

Didn't he smash his ancestral grave?

"What is the impact factor of "England Neurosurgery?" Zhang Zifan asked.

To be honest, as a neurosurgeon who became a monk halfway through, Zhang Zifan really doesn't know much about this magazine.

Yang Tingting is also learning and selling now, introducing: "It's about 4 points, sometimes there will be fluctuations, and it is generally stable."

"4 points? Isn't that on the verge of junk magazines?"

Zhang Zifan suddenly realized, "I still think that this old man is so good, so I am afraid that we will lose money if we compete with him?"

It's not that Zhang Zifan judges a gentleman's belly with a villain's heart, but that this is really possible.

Generally speaking, for a medical academic journal, an impact factor of 8-20 points is relatively healthy.

A score of 20 or above is considered a particularly excellent journal.

Like the old British medical journal "The Lancet", the impact factor is at the level of 40+.

The impact factor of the journal Clinical Cancer sponsored by the American Cancer Society once reached an astonishing 200+.

As for journals with 3 or 4 points...

Everyone understands everything.

For example, the famous journal "Plos One" has a rating of between [-] and [-] all year round, which is a great savior for graduates with master's degrees.

Or when you have an article, it is a pity to publish it in a domestic journal, but you are not strong enough to publish it in a good magazine, then "Plos One" is definitely a good choice.

Thesis is related to graduation, promotion, and job title evaluation, and it is a big industry.

Let's put it this way, there used to be a blind date for a female Ph.D., and the dowry was the first authorship of 6 SCI papers.

This is not a small amount.

You know, SCI is not like those junk journals in China. An article costs 2000 yuan, and you can get a discount of 500 yuan if you catch up with the discount.

For example, journals like "PNS" start at [-] for ghostwriting a paper.

The impact factor of "PNS" is only about 8 points.

Such a large business, of course, supports a large number of people from top to bottom.

This company "English Neurosurgery" should be like "Plos One", which specializes in volume and bad money.

Small profits but quick turnover is indeed a good survival strategy.

But as an academic journal, this is also dancing on a tightrope.

Because if the impact factor is too low, it is likely to be kicked out of the Science Citation Index.

As a low-level journal, "England Neurosurgery" has a lot of bad money, but at the same time, it must find a way to win some good articles, and pull itself up when the impact factor is too low.

Going back and forth like this, you can always make bad money in the direction of neurology.

Now that they found an additional low-level journal that also published papers on neurosurgery, of course they immediately became vigilant.

After a lot of analysis by Edo Chuanzifan, he finally came to a conclusion:
This old bastard is worried that he will grab shit from him, so he is protecting the food!
At this moment, the system's beep confirmed Zhang Zifan's judgment:

【Ding!Do you accept the task [Overturning the Dog Food Bowl]]

[Overturning the dog food bowl: The new "Haoran Internal Journal" is threatened by the food guard dog. As the dean and editor-in-chief, can you completely smash the dog food bowl of the vicious dog and successfully complete the "Haoran Internal Journal" project? What about the battle out of the mountain? 】

[Reward: 20000 construction points, "Advanced Library Drawing" X1, special scholarship of 100 million yuan]

!!!

Zhang Zifan originally didn't want to pay attention to the boring old British bastard, but he didn't expect that this old bastard turned out to be a treasure boy!

Premium Drawings!

The second advanced drawing!
Faced with such temptation, how could Zhang Zifan say no?
"This paper was issued by Old Kong, right?"

Zhang Zifan knocked on the table, "Call him over and ask if it's convenient for him to go to Europe with me. If not, go to Li Jingwang and ask him to persuade Professor Kong."

(End of this chapter)