Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 175: Science

　　The editorial office of Science is as busy as ever.

　　It receives a huge number of manuscripts from all over the world every day, and less than one in ten of them eventually make it to the journal.

　　Warren sees his job as more of a gold-digger than an editor. Sifting through the mass of submissions to find novel and groundbreaking papers and getting them into the hands of the right reviewers.

　　It's a great job, no doubt, because it's a job where the whole world is being changed.

　　At the same time, however, it is also a boring job.

　　As for why this is so ......

　　Because as one of the two top journals in academia, Science is just too famous.

　　In order to get published here, contributors do whatever they can. That's why they see all kinds of "breakthroughs" every day.

　　To be honest, as for the correctness of the papers, they, as editors with only half a foot in the academic circle, have no way to judge. They can only refer to the identity of the contributor, as well as the university or research organisation where the author is based, past submission records, and other information outside of the paper, to determine whether a paper is qualified to enter the peer-review process.

　　As usual, Warren made himself a cup of refreshing black coffee before work, and then opened his work email to collect the papers that had passed the technical editor's review.

　　Looking at the emails, he couldn't help but feel a little numb.

　　"I think the technical department should develop some new features for our office software."

　　"Such as?" Belloc, who was dealing with the work at hand, asked casually.

　　Warren spoke under his breath, "Such as calculating weighting values for the cumulative impact factor of a contributor's past submission record and the academic ranking of the research institution before sending the paper to us, and then sorting it."

　　Belloc chuckled, "That's a good idea, but it seems a bit unfair to the lesser-known contributors."

　　"What does it matter? We're Science, shouldn't we use a bit more scientific methods to screen our manuscripts?" While decisively dragging a paper into the recycle bin, Warren said, "Some papers are a pure waste of time."

　　Having killed one paper, he quickly opened the next one.

　　The moment he saw the title, Warren instantly complained fiercely in his mind.

　　"Lithium-sulfur batteries again! "

　　The previous one was also, claiming to have solved the shuttle effect, only it was researching solid state electrolytes. To be honest, there was nothing wrong with the direction of solid state electrolytes, but there were some errors in the paper that were so obvious that even he, an editor with no reviewing ability, could see them.

　　He had read too many of these kinds of papers recently.

　　Subconsciously looking towards the contributor and the research organisation, just as Warren was pondering whether he should waste a few minutes on this paper or not, suddenly he froze.

　　Only the name of the contributor seemed somewhat familiar ......

　　Looking further into the research organisation, he only saw that it was filled in with the Frick Chemical Laboratory at Princeton University.