I Just Want to Be a Quiet Top Student

"Study of Multiple SHANK3 Gene Editing Methods in Rats" is a general thesis, which can be divided into five sub-theses. Han Meng and other five experimenters will write another sub-thesis as their doctoral thesis at Yanda University.

Everyone performs their own duties to promote the general paper and sub-papers. Where is the general paper "Study of Multiple SHANK3 Gene Editing Methods in Rats" published?

Shen Qi's suggestion is to choose one of "Nature", "Science" and "Cell": "I personally prefer "Nature" because its IF is high. When I was studying, my tutor told me that when you have difficulty choosing where to go When submitting papers for a journal, choose the one with the highest IF in the same category. Of course, "Science" and "Cell" can also be considered, five of you vote, and the journal with the most votes wins."

When a scientific research team can choose "Nature", "Science", and "Cell" at will, it means that this team is not an ordinary team.

Five experimenters have studied Shen Qi's previously published papers, and Shen Qi seems to be particularly partial to "Nature".

Mathematics is difficult to be included in "Nature" because of its particularity.

However, in terms of physics and chemistry, most of Shen Qi's papers were published in "Nature", including Shen Qi's personal special issue.

"Nature is indeed a good journal, but let's keep a low profile?" Cui Hualin said with some concern.

Cui Hualin did not complete his doctoral studies in the United States due to special reasons, and he hurried back to China on the eve of his defense.

The other four brothers are similar, Han Meng fled Canada, Wu Junqiang quietly left the UK.

Du Yuan transformed himself into a woman in a short period of time through biotechnology. He followed a women's tour group by boat from France to Alexandria, Egypt, and then flew back to China from Egypt.

Tang Yaxing can speak flawless and down-to-earth Dutch. He pretended to be a Chinese-Dutch businessman and set off from the port of Amsterdam to return home by container ship.

The reason why the five experimenters couldn't stay in the top biological laboratories abroad is not because they are not good enough.

Precisely because they were so good, the experimental projects they did jeopardized the national security of the country.

It was said by the government of the country that it endangered the national security of the country, and the five experimenters were depressed and annoyed.

"In China, strength does not allow you to keep a low profile. In China, you are absolutely safe." Shen Qi gave everyone courage.

"Then "Nature." Cui Hualin voted with a show of hands.

"I also agree with "Nature." The other four expressed their views one after another.

The main journal of "Nature" and some of its sub-journals will receive more than 1,000 papers from all over the world every week. Due to the limited space, the weekly publication volume of the main journal of "Nature" and some of its sub-journals is less than 100 articles.

The authors passed

To submit a paper, it may take several months for their paper to be seen by the editor.

What Shen Qi meant was that instead of going through the "Nature" submission system, let's send an e-mail directly to their person in charge. I used to do this all the time.

Every industry has special people who are beyond the rules, let's deal with special matters. Wu Junqiang stayed in the UK for a while, and he was organized to contact the person in charge of "Nature".

Wu Junqiang wrote an e-mail to George Blake and sent a copy to Shen Qi.

"Dr. Blake:

Hello.

I am Wu Junqiang, a researcher at the Biological Laboratory of Yanda Shen Qi Research Center. Under the leadership of our team leader, Professor Shen Qi, we have completed a research on genes. The manuscript is posted in the attachment column. Please check it and look forward to your reply . "

"Nature" is a weekly journal, so its cycle of publishing scientific news and research results is very fast.

This is another reason why Shen Qi prefers "Nature".

Compared with "Nature", quarterly or even annual mathematics journals are really too procrastinating.

What age is this, the amount of updates is king.

The same applies to the readership of scientific magazines.

Even though the update speed of "Nature" is the fastest in the industry, from the manuscript entry

system, until the manuscript is officially accepted, the average cycle is 13 weeks.

After 13 weeks, if the author's manuscript is not returned by the editor, the manuscript will enter the reviewer review stage.

If the reviewers pass the review, the paper will be published in "Nature" after 7 weeks.

That is to say, from submission to publication, the average period for a "Nature" paper to appear in front of the public readers is 20 weeks.

This is an average under the premise that the quality of the paper is very high.

And half of the papers were directly clicked out at the editing level, and they could not enter the reviewer review stage at all.

There are also special cases, which are important papers considered by the editorial department of "Nature".

Important papers are usually published within one month after receiving the manuscript. So far, the fastest publication record in "Nature" is 5 days, which is maintained by Shen Qi's applied physics team.

U.K.

"Nature" editorial department.

Busy as always.

Different from the cognition of "Nature" readers, the staff of "Nature" editorial department are not all uncles and aunts over 50 years old.

In fact, most of the members of the editorial team of "Nature" are young people, they come from many different countries, and most of them have worked as postdoctoral fellows in the best laboratories in the world.

The editorial team of "Nature" is divided into two groups under the leadership of the editor-in-chief, the life science group and the natural science group.

Dr. George Blake is the editor-in-chief of the Natural Science Group. He is an American and has done postdoctoral research in the MIT laboratory. He is only 39 years old this year.

Americans take email very seriously.

You send a cell phone message to Americans, and they may reply to you the next day, or they may never respond to you.

But if you send an e-mail to the Americans, they will check and reply as soon as possible.

Dr. Blake saw the email from Wu Junqiang immediately.

Dr. Blake mainly studies physics and chemistry. Dr. Blake has never heard of the strange name of Wu Junqiang.

Shen Qi in the CC column is an old friend of Dr. Blake.

"Oh, Qi, have you started to study genetic engineering?" Dr. Blake clicked on the attached PDF "Study of Multiple SHANK3 Gene Editing Methods in Rats", and Shen Qi's name appeared in this paper, as well as the five The name looks like a Chinese author.

After studying "Rat Studies of Various SHANK3 Gene Editing Methods" for a while, Dr. Blake didn't fully understand it, but he didn't understand it at all.

The abstract and summary of the paper are easy to understand: Our team has found some gene editing methods, and conducted experiments on rats, which effectively adjusted the IQ of rats.

"Sure enough, it's a paper on genetic engineering. Leave it to Matt." Dr. Blake forwarded the email to Dr. Matt Harris, editor-in-chief of the life science group of "Nature", and replied to Shen Qi and Wu Junqiang:

"Qi, Wu, I have received your paper, but I am sorry that I am a layman in the field of life science, so I cannot make any valuable comments on this paper. My colleague, Matt, the editor-in-chief of the life science group Dr. Harris, will personally follow up on your paper. Good luck."