"Then what should we do?" Boss Jia asked unhappily.
"The best way is to reveal your identity and say that this is a paper published by the Daqian Group's Boss Jia. Then, there won't be any problems," Ni Guangnan said.
"That won't do. If people know that I published this paper, there will be countless pairs of eyes all over the world staring at this paper. How long can we hide our graphene?" Boss Jia shook his head and rejected decisively.
He understood that even if he used the name Jia Yapeng, as long as he didn't say that he was Jia Yapeng, the paper wouldn't arouse any suspicion.
"Then go to a third-tier international journal. Our paper meets the standards very well. It's also innovative. A third-tier journal will publish it!" Ni Guangnan said.
"That won't do either. Wouldn't that make me the same as a noob scholar?" Boss Jia shook his head. He still wanted to maintain his reputation. He wouldn't publish it if it wasn't an international top-tier journal!
"How about a domestic top-tier journal?" Boss Jia thought for a while and asked. "If the international ones don't work, I'll publish it in a domestic one!"
"A domestic one is even worse!" Ni Guangnan couldn't help but laugh. "The domestic top-tier journal is only a second-tier journal internationally. It's not worthy of Boss Jia's identity."
"Also, if you don't reveal your identity and don't plan to spend money, you won't be able to publish it in a domestic third-tier journal, let alone a domestic top-tier journal!" Ni Guangnan laughed.
"How is that possible!" Boss Jia's eyes widened.
"That's the reason. If your paper is only worthy of being published in an international third-tier journal, then naturally, the domestic top-tier journals won't be interested. However, below the domestic top-tier journals, all the journals have basically been reduced to professional titles or tools for postgraduate entrance exams! "
"Sigh, almost all the research institutions in the country now, all the research projects and the titles of the researchers are almost completely related to the number of published papers. They also have to do something called the Academic Impact Factor."
"There are at least a few million researchers in our country. These people have to publish at least two papers every year to ensure their smooth progress. That's a market of a few million papers published every year!"
"So you're saying that there are only so many journals in our country that are qualified to have an academic impact factor. Every year, there are only a few hundred thousand slots, but there are millions of people in the market. With such a huge gap between supply and demand, one's thesis had to be so amazing that all the journals had to publish it. Otherwise, you can buy a spot to publish your thesis. "
"Although your thesis can change the world, it's not shocking at all. You don't have the qualifications to be published by others, and you don't want to spend money. Naturally, you won't be able to make a name for yourself!" Ni Guangnan said with a smile.
However, a trace of sadness could be heard in this smile.
The Academic Impact Factor was a universal international rating standard for academic magazines. Simply put, it was a relative measure of how much influence an academic magazine had on scientific research all over the world.
Many hard indicators in China required researchers to publish papers in journals with an international Academic Impact Factor. Otherwise, they wouldn't have the corresponding qualifications.
However, the Academic Impact Factor was based on the influence and number of citations of the journal's thesis. There were very few journals in China that had the qualifications to have an Academic Impact Factor. There were more than 100 journals in each discipline. At most, they could publish tens of thousands of papers every year.
Of course, you couldn't say that this system was wrong. Because anything that wanted to be institutionalized and standardized must have a qualitative evaluation index.
Just like the results of the college entrance examination, the score was there. Whoever went to Tsinghua University or Peking University was determined by the fair cut-off. No one could say that it was unfair.
It was the same for academics. The number of published papers and the degree of impact were indeed the only relatively fair indicators to quantify academic performance. If you wanted to establish a systematic promotion system, you could only rely on this quantitative indicator.
However, the college entrance examination couldn't perfectly reflect a student's comprehensive ability, so this kind of academic system was even more impossible. After all, some projects may take decades or billions of investment to produce results. Before that, no one could publish a single paper. How could you say that they didn't have scientific research ability?
At the same time, this indicator was relatively easy to fake. Paying to publish a paper was the easiest way to fake it. Worse than this, there were thesis plagiarism, or directly stealing a student's thesis, and so on.
Therefore, this was a rather painful reality. It couldn't be wrong, but it couldn't be said to be perfect either.
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"Then, is the internal research promotion system of the Daqian like this?" Boss Jia suddenly thought of the Daqian, so he asked curiously.
"You don't even let us publish papers. This system naturally won't work!" Ni Guangnan shook his head. "Besides, I can't accept this kind of evaluation method. Currently, we mainly use the evaluation indicators of the Great Qian Empire's job ranking system to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of attendance. In addition, we also combine the actual contribution in scientific research to decide."
"Although I can't say that it's absolutely fair, I can guarantee that as long as they work hard and contribute at the same time, they can be promoted."
"But in this case, their contributions can only be known within the company. There's no way to let the world know about their scientific research achievements!" Boss Jia said with a sigh.
"There's no other way. In order to keep it a secret, you repeatedly forbade them from publishing papers. They can only silently endure it!" Ni Guangnan sighed.
In order to protect his own interests, there was nothing wrong with Boss Jia's decision. However, everyone wanted to be recognized by the whole world. The biggest wish of those who engaged in scientific research was to leave their names in history like those top scientists. In the future, when primary school students wrote essays, they could write something like this: The famous ancient scientist, Mr. Ni Guangnan, once said.
Or: Mr. Jia Yapeng was very fond of learning since he was a child. He was also very obsessed with learning. When he was young, his family was poor and couldn't afford to turn on the lights. Therefore, he sat under the street lamp outside and read with the weak light. This tells us a truth, and that is, don't be frightened by temporary poverty and adversity …
Well, that's pretty much it.
For primary school students, this may seem like a routine and boring essay. However, for countless scientific researchers, this was their lifelong dream.
In the past, Boss Jia did not care about this at all. After all, he did not need to rely on publishing papers to improve his reputation. Boss Jia was destined to leave his name in history as a famous historical tycoon. Papers were not important.
Therefore, Boss Jia never considered the suffering of these people. Until this time, when the paper was rejected, Boss Jia deeply understood the deep needs of many scientific researchers.
These were not things that could be satisfied with money.
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