Chapter 196 I am not suitable to be a reviewer for this paper
Ning Chen also has some impressions of this matter. After all, if every teacher is directly allocated rooms, the school’s expenses will be too high. Big.
Of course, this method is indeed a real benefit. You can buy this school district house at a price that is more than half cheaper than outside. No teacher will refuse such a good thing.
After talking about Ning Chen’s stay in school, Xu Zhou asked:
“Ning Chen, what topics are you working on now?”
"Well... I haven't done anything yet." Ning Chen answered truthfully.
“Aren’t you going to continue with your mathematics project and the iron-based superconductivity project?”
“The research project on the Navier-Stokes equation has been partially solved , the submitted paper has not yet yielded results, and I have not yet found a clear idea on how to proceed. The same is true for iron-based superconductors. I am currently researching to see if there are any new entry points. "< br>
In fact, this kind of scientific research gap is very normal for scientific researchers.
What's more, Ning Chen's standards for selecting topics are still very high. Unless the research value is relatively high, or it is a topic that he particularly likes, he will not easily start research on a topic. .
"That's it...it doesn't matter. You have made so many research results anyway. It is normal to adjust a little for a while."
After a while, Xu Zhou seemed to remember something again and said to Ning Chen :
"Ning Chen, I have a research direction. If you are interested, you can try to study it and see if there is any good entry point."
Xu Zhou usually He doesn't often recommend topics to Ning Chen, because Ning Chen almost always has topics he can't finish researching. Xuzhou gives Ning Chen more space to do research freely.
Hearing Xu Zhou’s words, Ning Chen became somewhat interested.
"Well, Teacher Xu, please tell me about it."
"Okay. I have done some research on nanomaterials before, and one of the nanomaterials is called TiO2 nanotube array , I feel that there are still many research directions..."
Ning Chen is no stranger to the material "TiO2 nanotube array".
As a researcher of materials science, Ning Chen must have a certain understanding of various nanomaterials.
Furthermore, Xu Zhou has published several papers on this material before, and Ning Chen has also studied it, and knows that this is indeed a good research direction.
TiO2 nanotube array is an array structure with nanometer size, composed of regularly arranged TiO2 nanotubes.
The diameter of these nanotubes usually ranges from tens to tens of nanometers, and the length ranges from hundreds to several microns.
TiO2 nanotube arrays have certain application value in many fields such as electrochemical energy storage, electrocatalysis, supercapacitors, electroanalytical chemical carriers, electrochemical sensing, and fluid mechanics testing.
After listening to Xu Zhou’s introduction, Ning Chen said:
“Teacher Xu, I also think this is indeed a good research direction. I will study the TiO2 nanotubes carefully these days. Array knowledge and see if you can find any good inspiration.”
"Okay, I can recommend some related papers to you. You can study it yourself when you go back. If you have any questions, you can ask me at any time. Although this research direction is not easy to be published in the main journals of "Nature" and "Science", as long as The results are outstanding enough, so there is no problem in publishing them in the top journals of Materials Science."
Ning Chen does not have to publish every paper in the main journals of "Nature" and "Science". In fact, these two academic journals. The journal is just more influential, and may not necessarily be more professional than other more academic journals.
After returning home in the evening, Ning Chen found the papers recommended by Xu Zhou and started studying them by himself.
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Shuimu University.
Jingzhai Building.
In the morning, Qiu Chengtong habitually opened his mailbox, wanting to deal with the emails he had accumulated.
These emails were sent by students, other teachers, and some journals asked Qiu Chengtong to serve as a reviewer for the journal.
Because he is really busy with his daily work, Qiu Chengtong had to refuse review invitations from many journals.
At this time, Qiu Chengtong found an email from the "Journal of the American Mathematical Society".
After opening the email, Qiu Chengtong discovered that it was a reviewer invitation sent to him by the Journal of the American Mathematical Society.
“Journal of the American Mathematical Society? It looks like this should be a good paper.”
Although I don’t know what the content of the paper is yet, as long as the paper can Passing the preliminary review by the editor of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society at least shows that the editor is quite optimistic about this paper, and at least the overall level is definitely not too bad.
Qiu Chengtong also very much hopes that he can be more exposed to the latest mathematical research topics so that he can always be connected with cutting-edge research. Thinking of this, Qiu Chengtong decided to accept the invitation of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society to serve as a reviewer.
Shortly after Qiu Chengtong responded to the email and expressed his willingness to serve as a reviewer, the Journal of the American Mathematical Society sent the manuscript of this paper.
With anticipation, Qiu Chengtong opened the paper attached to his email.
""Solutions of a Special Type of Navier-Stokes Equations"?"
After seeing the title of this paper, Qiu Chengtong always felt that there was some coincidence.
Because a few months ago, Qiu Chengtong once told Ning Chen and suggested that Ning Chen try to study research topics related to the Navier-Stokes equation.
Qiu Chengtong thought, this paper could not have been written by Ning Chen, right?
But Qiu Chengtong feels that this possibility is unlikely.
Because normally, when a journal invites reviewers, it will try to avoid having too close a relationship between the author of the paper and the reviewers.
Although Qiu Chengtong and Ning Chen are not the same teacher and student from the same school, Qiu Chengtong wrote a letter of recommendation for Ning Chen to the "Journal of the American Mathematical Society" after all.
Even if they don’t know the relationship between the two, at least they know that they know each other.
In order to ensure the fairness of this review, the author's name was hidden in this paper. Qiu Chengtong did not think so much, but focused on the content of the paper.
Unconsciously, Qiu Chengtong was immersed in the content of this paper.
Qiu Chengtong realized that this was a very high-level research paper, and even he would have difficulty reading it.
In addition, Qiu Chengtong also always felt that this paper had a very strange feeling, and some of the writing methods seemed to be the same as that of a certain person.
After Qiu Chengtong finally read the main content of this paper, Qiu Chengtong understood why he felt this way.
"This paper... I'm afraid it really came from the hand of Ning Chen!"
Apart from Ning Chen, Qiu Chengtong found it hard to believe that there is any mathematical researcher in the current mathematics community who can write such a A paper.
Coupled with various other reasons, Qiu Chengtong felt that more than 80% of the author of this paper was Ning Chen.
If this is indeed the case, Qiu Chengtong is obviously not suitable to appear as a reviewer of this paper.
Thinking of this, Qiu Chengtong responded to an email to the Journal of the American Mathematical Society and asked if the author of this paper was Ning Chen.
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Journal of the American Mathematical Society.
Journal editor Abi Moyle also felt a little overwhelmed after receiving the email reply from Qiu Chengtong.
"Professor Qiu Chengtong actually saw that this paper came from Ning Chen... In this case, it will be difficult to continue the review work."
In fact, Abi... Moyle did not want to invite Qiu Chengtong as a reviewer for this paper at first, because Qiu Chengtong had written a letter of recommendation to Bang Ningchen before, so he should avoid suspicion when reviewing the paper.
But during the review process, Abi Moyle encountered some unprecedented situations.
With the exception of Simon Donaldson, the other reviewers invited by Abi Moyle all stated that they were unable to evaluate the results of this paper.
Because the content of this paper is too obscure, with their ability, they are unable to accurately judge whether the various research results in the paper are correct, so they can only regretfully give up the review work.
You must know that these two reviewers are also experts in the field of mathematics.
Although they are not Fields Medal winners like Simon Donaldson, they are also mathematics professors at the world's top universities, and there is no problem with their abilities.
In desperation, Abi Moyle had to look for some more capable mathematics experts, so Qiu Chengtong entered Abi Moyle's choice.
(End of this chapter)