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About submission Mentality
First of all, I think it's very important, why do you say that? I have been exposed to a number of laboratory, they have just entered the field of scientific research, often more arrogant, they feel that they do something very good, theoretical and experimental results can coincide well. So hurried to submit a good journal, the post-submission days after the excitement of sleepless, the most likely to produce hallucinations, how to see their own writing feel can. The result several weeks later came to reviewer's proposal, rejected, and was the batch of very miserable, so completely discouraged, without the momentum of progress. This is the question of mentality. I think that in either direction, everyone should understand the fact that no one else in the world has found anything but what you have discovered, or that the idea that you are proposing is very, very little, or absolute: it is almost impossible for us to be ordinary. Therefore, to rationally look at the results of their own, in the article do not always emphasize how good you do, to be modest. is so-called disparage each other, peers see the results of peer always picky. Reviewer mentality will be similar, for example, I judge other people do the same thing, I will also use critical vision, because I also do this, very familiar with the difficulties are the same, so will directly see these difficult parts. If the discovery is not resolved, it will feel that the general, the rejection may be large. Conversely, if one or a few points are found to be a little new, even if not all solved, but also give a beneficial direction, will be happy, and then give a change of opinion or directly receive. So before you contribute, ask yourself: Have you read the research papers and patents in the direction you have done? Even if there is not all, the more classic of the few you read it? How are you doing? This is very important.
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To understand tune
This is more important, the woods big, what birds are flying, each reviewer taste is not the same, some people appreciate what you do, some people can not see, if you do things just like reviewer, it is more risky. So you have to temper their ability to fight. Take my experience as an example, there is an article: Special Qiao last edited to four reviewers, one agreed to receive directly, 2 minor revision, the last one refused. At that time was simply unacceptable, the tutor enlightened me to say to be calm, careful modification, reception certainly no problem. So believe in yourself, others can reject you, deny you, but we must have confidence in ourselves.
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Be a little cheeky.
Even if your article is rejected, do not give up easily. Reviewer to reject you, you must give detailed reasons, otherwise the editor will not agree. And these reasons are the basis of your amendment. Generally speaking, you follow the refusal of the opinion of the major overhaul after the submission, will still be sent to the original reviewer hand. Let him retry, so that the probability of receiving will be greater. So you can not be rejected the manuscript on the shelf, to be thick-skinned, carefully modified, reviewer let you how to change, you will change. He did not like the picture to be removed, he thought the superfluous was deleted. A younger brother asked me: Reviewer let him cut out a picture, he did not want, because the painting is very beautiful. I asked him directly: Do you want the paper published or Yaotu? This is not the time to look at your personality. A professor once told me that everything boils down to: make them (reviewer) happy.
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To highlight the comparison
A large professor and editor of a top-level journal once said: "The essence of a published paper is a comparison, compare your things and other people's things, in comparison can progress." Many students just start writing papers on how to do, how to do, experimental results. This writing is not the paper, but the technical report. Absolutely rejected. So the introduction part of a good paper must be written in wonderful. Imagine a person who is unfamiliar with the field and does not know how the rest of the world can write good high-level articles. No high-quality inputs will have high-quality output. We should also feel that the top journals in their own fields, the beginning will be a certain area of the current situation to do a summary, tell the reader how others do, what problems or shortcomings, and then lead their own things. We call this a story-telling. If the story is good, it will attract people and it will be affected. Here in addition, to tell a story, as far as possible to avoid saying that others are not good, even if there is, also to gently put forward. Otherwise you happen to meet the reviewer that you say shortcomings, do you think people will be happy?
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Attach importance to References
As I said earlier, references and comparisons to other people's work in the introduction section are important and will be reflected in the reference. In particular, those high-level journals, reviewers are almost all of the cattle in this field, review articles first look at abstract, understand the direction of writing immediately after looking at reference, because look at your reference basic know level. It is hard to imagine a few authoritative articles in the bibliography of an academic paper. So pay attention to it. Of course the citation is also skillful. Nothing is to be cited. Specific people can figure it out for themselves.
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Picture problem
Pictures must be done, cool pictures will make people's eyes bright. Use vector images as much as possible. I am often asked how well the pictures need to be. My advice is that you turn the picture into a PDF format and zoom in to the maximum, if still clear is the best. Only vector images can be undistorted. Images drawn in other software can be converted to EMF or WMF format before being put into word, so that the image will never be distorted. Draw curves are generally used in MATLAB or origin, according to their preferences. I personally prefer Matlab, because the program can be the style of the image fixed, directly read the data directly drawn on the line. Origin may have to use the mouse point half a day.
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Some words are disabled
The difference between English and Chinese is very big. Some of the words that we feel are not a problem in Chinese can be changed in English. For example, the following words should be used sparingly or not: Obviously, certainly,undoubtedly,probably and so on. These words can make the article less credible. Do not allow reviewers to always appreciate your work in the "probably probably". In addition, when evaluating our own results, novel,first,most and other words are used sparingly. Too many of these words will undoubtedly increase the resentment of others.
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Besides the picture.
See the answer to someone asking questions about the drawing, here is a brief. No matter what picture you draw in Matlab, a figure window appears, select the Copy option in the Edit menu, and then copy directly to Word, so that the resulting picture must be the clearest. In my own submission, all the images are converted into EPS format, which is not only clear but also very useful for editing the final layout. The use of BMP or JPG images is not recommended, the effect is very poor. For science and engineering papers, it is usually MATLAB or origin. Excel is used for experimental raw data processing and is not recommended for direct use. It's risky to have someone print directly to Word after drawing in Excel. I have examined an article, the author in Word gave an Excel table to illustrate the linearity, who do not know in Word can directly open Excel table to view the original data. I opened, carefully observe the data near 0 points, found that the curve with the turn, and the text given the linearity of the discrepancy, so my impression of the article suddenly become very poor, the rest of the results will not be a problem? So it's important to be careful with the pictures. BTW, strongly against the procedure. The resulting image quality is too poor.
The fine degree of the picture can determine the quality of an article, foreign group even please professional art to deal with the picture, some of the instruments are beautifully painted, impressive. Do not think this is a superficial effort, the image is the most powerful tool to express the content of the article. Reviewer, if it is an expert level, the Order of review is generally: title, author, unit, abstract, picture, Introduction, picture, reference, text (if necessary). You can see the importance of the picture, even if you look at the text around a few pictures. So the picture is the façade, is the content, is you can get the ticket weight.
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Formula
The formula is generally used MathType. Set the style according to the journal's requirements. Here's what the formula needs to write and what does not need to write. You have to understand that the general review of your manuscript from your reference to find, so the reviewer is not a beginner, do not need everyone from the simplest formula to science. Unless it is a formula that must be explained, it is not written and can be quoted as everyone knows. The most common mistakes of the formula are inconsistent, the symbols are not the same, try to avoid them.
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About the reply to reviewer
This is very important in the process of publishing papers, like playing Tai Chi, a few round down, is a battle of wits process.
The first thing to note is that you must be polite. Even though some reviewers have a strong language, they totally negate your job. This is not afraid, in the downwind often have the opportunity to counter-attack. If you also respond strongly to the reviewer, you can only say that you are out of your hands. The so-called politeness, is the request must be to the reviewer of each problem is elaborated, to earnestly sincere, not afraid not to make clear, afraid reluctantly answer, acting knowledgeable, this is very undesirable. Reviewer of the problem can be very many types, suspicious type, has consulted type, has discussion type, has the enlighten type, has the suggestion type and so on. According to each kind of tone to answer, here content also many, not detailed said. Let's try to figure it out according to your own situation.
Secondly, we must have a clear concept in mind, you and the reviewer between the "coming and going", not only you two people things! Behind the scenes is a pair of eyes that have been watching you, the editor. He is a referee, just staring at your two exchanges. He has his own judgment. Even if the reviewer does not accept your reply, editor will still be able to decide whether or not to hire you. In other words, even if the reviewer is not like receiving, but if editor wants to receive, then must be able to receive. Then someone would ask, how can we let editor stand on our side? That is to use sincerity to win the favor of the editor. Write a reply when the mind must always remember, your reply is to 2 people see, one is reviewer, one is editor. You reply to the tone and attitude editor are in the eyes, whether intentions, whether sincere, these are editor gaze. Because not every reviewer is just, because it will inevitably involve ' envy envy hate ', or circle interpersonal problems, happened to send to the opponent's hand is also often can occur, so editor is responsible for the final arbitration. To give a personal example, I voted for a top-level journal, to two reviewers, a reviewer's opinion is very pertinent, can see that he wants your article to receive, so there are a lot of questions, let you reply. Another reviewer came up with a denial, a few words, and no specific advice. Therefore, their attitude can be judged preliminarily. After a careful reply to these two, the editor is issued. After the first round, the first reviewer was very satisfied and agreed to receive it. The second dissatisfied, asked some questions, but the problem is a little beyond the scope of the article, and then revise the reply. After this round, still not satisfied, or use problems to make trouble. Basically see is do not want to receive. But I still very seriously reply, each reply reached 20 pages or so. Respond to our views and ideas and hope to discuss them. After this reply, after one months, the status changed to report received, that is, the editor received the comments of this review, but after a few days I did not receive the change notice and the results. I was wondering how this was going to happen. By convention, the editor receives comments and returns to the author at the first time. Now look at the state and change to: manuscript for Board level decision. This means submitting an editorial board arbitration. This may indicate that the editor is making a choice, and the reviewer may not agree to receive it, but after his observation it seems to me that a few rounds of reply are better. Finally received. The process may be complex, involving some psychological confrontation, or the final situation, but be sure that your performance in the process, the editor will certainly have a rating. So must be polite, polite, sincere, sincere, answer the question to the point, don't beat around the bush。 Please remember.
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To be bold in pointing out the reviewer's mistake.
As I said before, we should politely reply to the reviewer. But does not mean to blindly accommodate the reviewer, is the so-called persimmon pick soft pinch. If the performance is too weak, the reviewer will be on the nose face, hehe. For example, some reviewers ' comments and opinions are clearly wrong. This is because people have different degrees of understanding of a problem. Mistakes can be understood as well. In such cases, it is polite to point out the error, and then give your own understanding. The advantage is that the reviewer will think you are an expert, you dare not casually nonsense. Otherwise it will be surprising, because the editor is still looking at the back.
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On the doctoral stage of scientific research and life
On this issue, a lot of netizens have written a very good experience. You can find them on the forum. I would like to from a few other aspects of the experience I read Bo 5 years of feeling, for your reference, in the form of questions, we ask whether you do, or are doing, or will be done. I would like to read Bo is not like an undergraduate as casually come on line, it is a special period, one age, and the majority of people have no money no room no car, three is the road of scientific research is very difficult, not easy. Do not read in the Bo stage yourself silly, many people do not know why they choose to read Bo, as if high school-undergraduate-master-doctor's path is normal. Inertia down, muddle through, doctor even graduated, work also find not good, still no master to find.
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Where is my life going?
To establish no matter what to read, Bachelor, Master, PhD, Heroes ..., the ultimate goal is to work and employment. We live in this world, to be married, ' karma ' means work. We must not produce hallucinations, issued a few cattle articles, you feel how to yourself. After entering the society, you will find that these articles of yours may not receive the special attention, the fancy will always be your ability. Read Bo stage to understand that employment is the last way out, now Dr. Too much, not worth the past, a lot of doctors are water, or even better than some master's, so also need to see clearly what the society needs people. Do you fit your life in an ivory tower? Not all people are suitable for scientific research, if they do not fit, quickly leave the circle of academia, the outside world is very open, as soon as possible to find the place belongs to you. Into the university is not so good, see a lot of green pepper treatment will know, do not listen to anything as long as the project on the line, to know that no network of you, just beginning and will not smooth sailing. It is likely that before you are 45 years old, you have been in the University of "poor" days. Of course each person pursues a different, no matter what is wrong.
2
Did you really work hard at the stage of reading Bo?
Really for a data to do all night. Others behind the glorious may hide their great efforts, so do not feel around so-and-so doctor did not do anything to send a lot of articles. To know that God is fair, there is a return on the pay. I always know that I have to pay a few into efforts.
3
Did you read 100 articles during the Bo period?
Although the disciplines are different, it is certain that a qualified doctoral graduate must undergo a lot of literature reading, and that the foreign language literature must occupy a large part. For the Science and engineering doctor, don't even have to look at the domestic articles (not to belittle Chinese articles, read more, look back to the Chinese article will know the grade). For the liberal arts doctor, should also read more foreign language, to know that sinology research is the best not China. Economics, management is not to mention. After all, the Sci,ei is a set of Americans, have their values, so to see, see why foreign can do so well? 100 of course not all intensive reading, but at least dozens of should be intensive, said before, there is high-quality input to have high-quality output. Read more, the understanding of the profound, I know how to write the paper. Some people always ask the paper exactly how to write? In fact, do not ask, to see high-level articles, see more, know the routines, we know the wording, we know the idea.
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Have you ever had a few sincere friends in the Bo stage?
In the process of scientific research, we will be wandering, helpless and even despair. The most need of this time is the encouragement of friends around. Do not always fight alone, and the surrounding doctoral students often chat, discussion, the debate between each other can become a spark. Perhaps a few years after graduation, when you think back to this time, still can vaguely remember those who work with you in the Doctor's road comrades.
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Did you consider your emotional problems during the reading stage?
Compared to the society, the school is still very pure, we are very simple. If you can in the course of their own study, find each other's appreciation of the partner to go on together, will be your life's wealth. At this time, you and I are not rich, but can accompany the youth years, prove that each other is not a fancy material needs. So read the Bo period, bold, to pursue their hearts of a feeling.
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Do you have a mentor and a few teachers in the Bo stage?
This is really not easy, because it does not depend on ourselves. Depends on the teacher's attitude towards the students. But the rapport with the teachers will undoubtedly be of great benefit to the future growth path.
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Is there less contact with parents during the period of reading Bo?
No matter what we do, we should worry about our parents, they are no longer young. Ben Three's doctors do not have a job to support the family at this time, and parents can always be supportive of our dream, this is the parents. The night of the experiment, whether good or bad, look at the stars, pick up the phone to give parents a phone call, listen to the familiar voice. Heart will be happy, full of warmth, will be more determined to go down.
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is reading the Bo phase too focused on your own field and ignoring a lot of other things?
It's absolutely right to focus on your job, but you can't just fancy the finish line, and the scenery along the way may change your life.
Experience | Ph. D., also write some tips on how to send articles
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