What is the experience of publishing SCI cover articles?

Cheng, column "Chemistry notes" has been opened, welcomed the attention of Shing, Qu Zhi times and other 298 people agree with Xie invited.
Because the boss is more concerned about this, our group has professional art, so our group of better paper will try to cast the cover.
His paper on a chem Eur J cover, with the sister soy sauce paper on Chem comm cover.
Recently in the article N sub-issue, submitted the cover has not known the results.
Experience, probably like this ...
The boss said, let's have an abstract, artistic cover.
I drew a draft.

Give the artist half a day after the duang of a little bit becomes


This moment, I think of the "how to draw a horse" in the last step to add some details, I think of the four drive brother of the small Hao scribblings design cyclone charge ...


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Hair cover is very cool ~

I drew all these covers myself.




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There are comments that the science that cover good-looking, reminds me, the original nature nanotech that I originally drawn cover version is this:
This means that DNA can be made into nano-Us, and that it can be cut off by DNA nano-scissors and become a large ring or a ring of nano-rings.

The result was changed to that by nature's design ... If I were not paper, the author would not understand what it was. Edited on 2016-07-10 61 reviews Thank you for sharing collection • No help • report • Author retention Rights 147 agree against, will not show your name Evan Wang, a stuffy, slightly literary skinny 147 people agree with 2015/04/2 5 Update:

A brief description of what this cover is, this is the optical microscope (the most common kind, is to do a variety of high school experiments for the kind of, this only 50 times-fold magnification) photo, the sample is a single crystal surface

"1" This single crystal is a new type of multi-ferrous material ErMnO3, hexagonal structure
The surface of the "2" sample is chemically corroded.
"3" After the chemical corrosion, different ferroelectric domains under the microscope will produce a contrast of light and shade (high and low difference)
"4" If you look at this picture carefully, every six ferroelectric domains will converge to a point, no exception, which is a topological protection
"6" Each converging point is called a topological defect.
"7" topological defects are naturally generated when symmetry is broken.
"8" symmetry breaking is very common, the most important symmetry of the break-up is the universe after the Big Bang rapid cooling process
"9" In this single crystal, the topological flaws produced by this symmetry break are also in line with the cooling process described in theory after the Big Bang.

So, the main meaning of this graph is that we can study some dynamic processes in the early stages of the Big bang in a single crystal of 1mm^3 (-_-) estimates that everyone is crazy ... But that's true ... At the outset a referee evaluation was:

See the Universe in a tiny crystal

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I would like to put a piece of my cover article, in fact, is a very simple photo of the optical microscope, at that time was informed that the cover when excited to have wood, but also adjust the contrast is the DPI, but sent to find others changed a lot. Because too excited also privately dig $$ buy back a collection memorial.

But after a while to calm down to think, compared to so many cool research work, a cover article is not too much use, may put on the resume and personal site will be more attractive. But it is the quality and importance of work that is the most important thing in research work.

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I just have a gas net red, but I also have a cover, hum (fog)

I'd say a little bit about the cover article. In general, the cover article is divided into two kinds, one is the invited article (invited article), usually in the field of magazine editing invitation to write a special paper, the other is to self-recommendation, I think the article is good, to the magazine editor filed an application.
This crossing understand: if there is a bull boss, often accept invitations, as long as you as a student diligent work, hair cover is not a problem. My first cover was the boss who was invited and sent. Highlight the importance of hugging your thighs. If you want to rely on a recommendation, you have to speculate on the taste of editors and recent popular themes. Personally feel that the difficulty will be bigger.

Now basically as long as the paper, you have to submit the Table of Contents Graphics (different magazines have different names), is that you browse the summary on the Internet The first glance can see the summary diagram. So it's going to be some art. You take the Graphics TOC directly to the editor, re-trim it, and plug it into the cover. Of course, if you or your boss are very particular, you may have to fancy a little bit more. Now the major magazines, especially the head of the CNS, almost all provide art cover design, processing services, local tyrants can try.

Our spectral circle, the map Satoki spectral that is qishidaoming. And in the personal aesthetic, the spectrum itself is still very artistic. So it is common practice to draw a related molecule and then stack an experimental spectrum. The pictures of those friends who did not make material, long crystals looked tall. This is my cover article, I was also the article dragged a long time to get out, not in the mood to make, hastily took a picture of the experiment stacked a very disgusting spectral map to hand it up. Both the boss and the editor said they liked it and didn't know if it was a compliment.

After being selected as the cover, it is usually accompanied by a photo of the author's avatar and a profile. So the magazine will ask you for photos and profiles. And because of copyright issues, the magazine will send you the Royalty Free authorization application form, you as the mirror "model" need to sign, the photographer who photographed you also need to sign. My own picture was taken by an old friend of mine when I was in New York, and he had already returned home, so I had to send him an e-mail to sign him.

However, after a few months of JPCA's cover, I met a magical magazine: JMS. Cast an article irrigation irrigation, is JPCA that a by-product, pull out alone analysis. The map is the same, the spectral stack of molecules, but I painted the software Avogadro rendering to the highest, it appears that the molecular sphere of light and shadow is very beautiful.
So somehow, JMS took my title picture on the cover. They didn't even give me an invitation or anything. I did not know as an author, until I was reminded at the International conference and @ Lin Zhou. Kneeling for the cover of the story to listen to more, did not expect the "cover" of the things I experienced a back. Probably...... The magazine editor is really touched by light and shadow.
Take home message: Students, after the painting molecule remember the rendering to the top ah. Posted on 2016-07-09 21 comments Thanks for sharing collection • No help • report • Author retention Rights 11 agree against, will not show your name Li Rui, stolen five years Shing and other 11 people agree not to send their own cover, but there are many times sealed Face and artistic illustrations.

Recent work has been a ANGEW cover, science advances illustrations, CC's inner cover selected a proposal that I did not draw (submitted 3 proposals).

Cover design is still very tired of things, the approximate process is to study the recent taste of the magazine, and then according to customer requirements and article content to propose a few ideas, do sketches, and then to the customer review, then began to do the finished product (about 1-2 options), the finished product about 3 days to meet the changes, so in repro before the DL is almost.

The most important thing for scientific illustration is to grasp the balance of artistry and science, so it is necessary for the drawing to have a certain scientific literacy, need to understand the needs of customers, and there is no obvious scientific error. In the production process, customer communication is very important, so a good customer will make everyone more comfortable.

My idea of a good customer is probably to know what they want. Even if you can't draw a picture, you can come up with an example. Know what is what you want most, not blindly put all the content of the article into.

I am currently in contact with a good customer, thank you very much, haha.

In addition, the tastes of foreign editors are very elusive, and the domestic cover are very fond of Chinese elements (the Japanese also like to do so), but I do not like this.

Finally, in fact, sometimes the picture is not too ugly problems are not (except N series), more is the content of the article. The cover of Angew series is serious, there is not a lot of ugly cry in the picture.

Put a science advances illustration, Angew cover and unsuccessful Angew proposal, CC proposal (some customer related information has been hidden).
Science Advances
Angew
Unsuccessful proposal