"Mr. Hanks, these are the manuscripts that were sent to you in the past few days!" After the staff member finished speaking, he placed a large pile of manuscripts on the editor's desk.
He estimated that there were at least 20 theses.
"Got it!" Hanks was already used to the number of theses. In fact, this was considered a small number. At his peak, he was responsible for reviewing more than 50 theses alone.
And this was only his job. There were 12 editors in the entire editorial department who were in charge of reviewing manuscripts. Each of them had to review 600 manuscripts in 50 days. These manuscripts were usually collected once every three days. In other words, within a month, Advanced Materials would receive more than 6,000 different manuscripts.
As the top international materials journal, unless a special issue was published, Advanced Materials would only publish about 20 to 30 theses a month. This meant that only one out of 200 theses would be selected for publication.
Of course, this was the treatment of the top international materials academic journal.
Therefore, writing more than 20 theses was a piece of cake for Lu Zhou.
However, this amount of work couldn't be underestimated because these were 20 very professional academic papers. There were a lot of complicated experimental records, theoretical explanations, and so on. It required a lot of professional knowledge. If one wanted to finish reading such a paper and understand the content, it would take at least two or three days to digest it.
Fortunately, as the primary editor, Hanks did not need to fully understand these theses. All he had to do was to remove the ridiculous theses and let the rest enter the second review stage.
Generally speaking, more than 80% of the theses could be removed at the first review stage. More than 60% of the theses could be directly thrown aside after a glance.
For example, papers on perpetual motion machines, papers on turning water into oil, and so on. In any case, one could tell at a glance that these were completely imaginary. They could be directly removed just by looking at the name.
The rest was to look at the basic argumentation process and whether the format of the thesis was in line with the professional format. Any theses with a large number of irregularities could be removed.
These two steps could directly remove more than 90% of the theses.
The remaining 10% required Hanks to read through and see whether the argumentation logic was normal, whether the various experimental data were detailed, whether the experiment supported the results, and so on. After these basic things were all confirmed, Hanks could enter the second review stage.
This was the basic procedure, but there were exceptions, which was to look at the name of the author. If the name of the author was very famous, even if the title of the thesis was too exaggerated, Hanks had to read it carefully. After all, with the author's identity and status, if he dared to publish such an article, he might really break the common sense of the entire chemistry and physics industry and become a great existence like the theory of relativity.
However, such theses were too rare. He might only encounter one or two in a hundred years.
Hanks's work was relatively smooth today. There were a total of 24 theses. The first 23 theses were things that he directly rejected after a glance.
"Seems like I can pass these few days!" Hanks picked picked the last thesis, "The Electric Field Effect in Atomic Thin Films".
"Interesting!" This thesis title was absolutely inexplicable in the eyes of others, but Hanks read it.
For an academic journal editor like Hanks, the title of "The Electric Field Effect in Atomic Thin Films" was very simple. It did not look like a major discovery at all.
However, such a simple thesis title meant that the content inside was very solid and rigorous. There was a high probability of passing the first review, so Hanks read it carefully.
This was a simple thesis on the electric field effect in a special state. The thesis described how the author of the thesis peeled graphite to form an extremely thin atomic thin film, and then a brand-new electric field effect was created.
Just like the title of the article, the whole article was very simple and unpretentious. The format of the article was also very rigorous. Other than the fact that the continuous use of tape to obtain thinner graphite seemed a little funny, the whole experiment process was very detailed. There were no problems at all.
Overall, this was a qualified thesis.
"The thesis is okay, but it's in the wrong place!" Hanks shook his head and was about to kick this thesis out. However, after thinking about it, it seemed a bit inappropriate to kick out all 24 theses today. Therefore, he picked it up and put it in the second review thesis.
Hanks looked at the author's name again. It was called Yapeng Jia, and his nationality was Hua Xia.
Yes, that's right, this thesis was published by Boss Jia on graphene.
Some people might be confused. Since it was a graphene thesis, why didn't it just name it as "A New Material: Research on the Properties of Graphene"? Instead, it was called "The Electric Field Effect in Atomic Thin Films".
First of all, this title was actually the original title of the first graphene thesis in history.
When graphene was first discovered, it definitely did not have a name like graphene. At most, it was named as an allotrope of carbon. Only after the academic community widely accepted this new material would it be given a new name. Otherwise, it would only be given a complicated academic name according to the rules of academic naming.
In fact, the first graphene thesis was not used to study graphene. It was only used to study the electric field effect using graphene's extremely thin material.
Of course, Boss Jia could also directly publish a large-scale paper that thoroughly researched graphene's special material properties, which would be hundreds of thousands of words long. However, if he did that, wouldn't he expose himself and make the whole world focus their attention on graphene?
This was not the situation Boss Jia wanted to see.
If possible, Boss Jia wished that no one would discover graphene for a hundred years so that the Daqian could monopolize it.
However, it was precisely because of the continuous stream of people discovering graphene that Boss Jia decided to take the initiative to seize the right to discover this material. At the same time, he wanted to see if he could use this opportunity to interrupt fate's hand. Otherwise, fate would continue to use other people to discover graphene and cause Boss Jia and Ni Guangnan to be paranoid.
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