Chapter 872 No One Contributed? Easy!

As soon as the pre-order sales data of the first issue of the sub-journal of "Exploration·Physics" was released, it shocked the entire academic community.

Although everyone knew that the paper theory written by Professor Xu Chuan himself would definitely be widely sought after by the academic community. But no one expected that just a sub-journal, and only the first issue, would create the highest record of single journal issuance and subscription in the physics community.

In two days, the pre-order sales of the first issue of "Exploration·Physics" had exceeded one million, which is a number that other physics journals cannot reach.

Although the sales data of major journals have always been confidential and rarely circulated publicly.

On the one hand, this is because it involves the revenue and profit of the journal, which is usually a trade secret of major academic publishers.

On the other hand, the sales volume is usually not included in the evaluation of the excellence of an academic journal.

Because for a top academic journal, after being included in the subscription list of major research institutions or universities, it usually maintains a long-term subscription.

Therefore, the sales of academic journals are generally quite stable.

For an academic journal, the key indicators are the journal citation frequency, impact factor, academic index, characteristic factor, average citation rate, etc.

For example, Nature, the world's leading scientific weekly, is the world's most cited multidisciplinary journal, with more than 910,000 citations in 2023.

And it has ranked first in the multidisciplinary field for 12 consecutive years. Its impact factor was as high as 50.5 in 2023, and its five-year impact factor was as high as 54.4.

But even so, the sales of Nature magazines for each issue do not reach the number of one million.

Only the top journals among the top journals such as The Lancet and Reviews of Modern Physics can have this sales volume.

And it is not every time that it can have a million-level subscription and sales volume. Only when it publishes a very valuable paper or has a big academic paper, the sales volume may exceed this number.

The first issue of Exploration Physics can exceed one million in sales in just two days. Even if it is only one issue, it is enough to prove its value.

The explosive sales data has caused quite a stir and discussion in the academic community and social networks.

Especially in China, the sales of over one million have made many netizens who supported "Exploration" from the beginning feel proud.

After all, before, there were a lot of people on the Internet who were not optimistic about the purely Chinese "Exploration" journal, believing that purely Chinese journals would not be accepted by the academic community and that their future was worrying.

Now, "Exploration" speaks with sales and slaps back hard, making those netizens who support Xu Chuan and purely Chinese journals breathe a sigh of relief.

[Two days, millions of scheduled sales! "Exploration" is the god of Chinese journals! ]

[Hahahaha, laughing to death, where are those who said that purely Chinese journals would not be accepted by the academic community before? ]

[Chuan Shen is Chuan Shen! If he doesn't make a move, it's fine, but if he makes a move, it's a sure kill! Awesome! ]

[What's so good about sales? Do academic journals look at sales? Academic journals only look at influence! No matter how much sales there are, it's useless if the impact factor is not good. ]

[Then find a journal with a single issue sales of millions, is there any other besides "Exploration"? Facts have proved that purely Chinese journals can also be popular all over the world! 】

【There is nothing much to say. I still say that a purely Chinese journal cannot become popular. How can a million-sales volume be achieved? The key is the paper on the mechanism of room-temperature superconducting materials. This paper can sell over a million copies no matter which journal it is published in. 】

【Moreover, being popular once does not mean that it will be popular every time. In addition, the most important thing for a journal is to accept manuscripts. If no one submits manuscripts to you, you can't run it at all. How many scholars in the academic world can write papers in Chinese? There are not many! 】

【Commissioning articles is the real problem! Nature can publish one issue per week, can Exploration? Don't dream too much, Chinese journals just can't do it. 】

Xu Chuan is not clear about the controversy on the Internet, but he will definitely know the core of a journal better than those so-called "netizens".

Indeed, commissioning articles is a very important thing for a journal.

As some people have said, it is quite difficult for purely Chinese journals to commission articles.

Especially for Exploration, which he founded, the requirements for the papers published are extremely high, and commissioning articles is even more difficult.

But in fact, whether it is difficult or easy for a journal to invite articles does not depend on whether it is purely in Chinese.

It is true that the main issue of "Exploration" is purely in Chinese, but scholars who are capable of submitting articles to the main issue will not be bothered by the threshold of pure Chinese at all.

For them, it only takes a few months to learn Chinese and become proficient.

Since the establishment of CRHPC, a large number of physicists have learned to communicate in Chinese without a teacher, and even speak Mandarin more fluently and standardly than some Chinese people.

Moreover, for "Exploration", only the main issue is purely in Chinese, and its sub-issues are not. Currently, sub-issues are in both Chinese and English.

Simply put, sub-issues accept submissions of both Chinese and English papers. It's just that when they are published, they will be translated professionally to achieve parallel Chinese and English.

So the saying that pure Chinese will limit the invitation of "Exploration" is just a superficial reason and opinion.

What really affects the invitation of "Discovery" is the inertia of the academic community, the discourse power of basic disciplines, the prejudices of various countries, and so on.

As Professor Wilcox Gustavus of California Institute of Technology said, English is the mainstream language of the academic community at present, without a doubt.

This is what the academic community and Western countries have done for more than a century.

The mainstream language of the academic community is English, which means that the development of the most cutting-edge fields of basic science will also be based on English as the standard.

This is an undercurrent hidden under the water, which has a stronger inertia than the obvious knowledge flow and is more difficult to change than the development of engineering technology.

Moreover, for Western countries led by the United States, they will not watch "Discovery" rise like this to compete with them for the discourse power in the field of basic science.

So if you want scholars from other countries to submit articles to "Discovery", the first thing you need to change is this inertia and deal with the destruction of other countries.

For Xu Chuan, if it were before, he would not have the ability to break this strong inertia of the academic community and break the unspoken rules maintained by Western countries.

No matter how high his academic achievements are, there is no better way.

After all, an individual can never compare with a group.

But now the situation is different. The world's most powerful large particle collider is in China, controlled nuclear fusion technology is first realized in China, and China is at the forefront of the world in the field of aerospace.

Whether it is the CRHPC circular super particle collider, the lunar biosphere project, or the lunar outpost research station. These world-leading scientific research equipment and projects are fatal to scholars in various fields, and even to the academic circles and even governments of various countries.

It can be said that no researcher or scholar who wants to move forward on the academic path can resist these equipment and projects.

More importantly, only China can provide these!

So when the journal "Exploration" was published, perhaps some responsive scholars had already thought of how Xu Chuan might solve the problem of commissioning.

After all, exploration is facing the world, and it is impossible to play behind closed doors.

In this case, submissions from foreign scholars are definitely needed.

As expected by these scholars, when the academic community and the Internet were discussing it, Xingcheng and the headquarters of the CRHPC officially held a press conference.

The content of the press conference was very simple. In addition to disclosing the current work, experimental results and gains of the CRHPC, there was also a seemingly insignificant announcement.

"From now on, the journal "Exploration" will be included in the review system of the CRHPC for the first time."

"Exploration" and "Exploration·Physics" will truly serve as the academic reference standard of the CRHPC. If there is a need, the paper theory collected by "Exploration" and "Exploration·Physics" can submit relevant experimental resource applications to the CRHPC."

"The CRHPC Council will give priority to the review of relevant experimental resource applications"

The information that the "Exploration" general journal and the "Exploration·Physics" sub-journal will be included in the CRHPC review system as an academic reference standard seems to be just an insignificant notice, but it has caused an uproar in the physics community.

At the headquarters of the CRHPC, thousands of physicists were furious when they learned of this announcement.

In the coffee shop of the CRHPC headquarters building, Frank Wilczek, who had just come from Europe a few days ago for the acceptance report meeting of the experimental data of "mass of high-mass particles and weak-electro-strong coupling strength", sat by the floor-to-ceiling glass window.

While drinking a cup of coffee, he watched the physicists hurrying outside and listened to the occasional loud exchanges of other scholars in the coffee shop.

"CRHPC has included the journals "Exploration" and "Exploration Physics" founded by Professor Xu Chuan into the review system as academic reference standards!"

"Watt? When did this happen!"

"It was this morning! The spokesperson of the CRHPC organization officially announced it. And it is not only included in the review system as an academic reference standard. If you can publish a paper theory in the journal "Exploration", you can also apply for experimental resources from the CRHPC organization first to verify your results!"

"Oh! God! What exactly does CRHPC want to do?"

"Who knows."

Listening to the conversation behind him with some exclamations from time to time, which was obviously higher than the normal chat decibel, Frank Wilczek took a sip of coffee and looked at his friend, Professor Wadeland Maynard of the Elementary Particle Physics Laboratory of Cornell University, who pushed open the door and walked in.

"Damn! What exactly does CRHPC want to do? They actually included a journal in the review system and opened a priority application for experimental resources for this!"

As soon as he sat down, Professor Wadeland Maynard complained.

Across the coffee table, Frank Wilczek smiled indifferently and said, "Is there a problem with this?"

"Problem?"

Professor Wedland Maynard said angrily, "It's a big problem! This is unfair to other research!"

"If this rule is really implemented, CRHPC's experimental resource application will no longer be open and fair! It may even happen that important experimental research cannot compare to the insignificant experimental research published in Discovery!"

Frank Wilczek sipped his coffee, knowing what he was talking about, but just smiled nonchalantly.

His eyes fell on the CRHPC headquarters building not far away. Looking at the strange-looking Bagua building, he said:

"Fair? Do you think there is pure fairness in this world?"

"All fairness is relative. CRHPC is an equipment built by China and can be opened to the outside world for physicists and research institutions from other countries to conduct experiments. It has even established a board of directors to review experimental applications in a targeted manner. Providing resources in order of importance seems to me to be quite fair.”

Hearing this, Professor Vedran Maynard looked over with a surprised look on his face, and couldn't help but ask: "You actually think this is fair?"

"Shouldn't this be a pretty scary thing? It will destroy the entire CRHPC review system!"

Wilzek ​​shook his head and said, "You think too much."

After a slight pause, he continued: "You must know that there is no absolute fairness in this world. And the current experimental review system of CRHPC is honestly almost the fairest among physics institutions I have ever seen."

"Isn't it enough that CRHPC can carefully review every experimental application regardless of nationality or skin color, and provide experimental resources according to importance?"

Maynard: "But now comes the exception!"

Hearing this, Wilzek ​​smiled and said: "Special case? Maybe, papers that can be published in Discovery and Discovery Physics may indeed receive some preferential treatment."

"But that's only for experimental applications of the same level."

"If you have read their announcement carefully, you should know that in this announcement, the priority is just review."

"I have already asked the directors of CRHPC. If your experiment is of higher weight in the CRHPC collision experiment application, even if the latter's paper is published in Discovery, it will not squeeze out your resources. "

"What it corresponds to is just to raise some priorities among resources of the same level."

"In my mind, it's not a big deal."

After a pause, he looked at Vedran Maynard with a smile and continued: "And if you think this is not enough, why don't you submit your paper to Discovery or Discovery Physics?"

"You can also have this opportunity fairly. It is not unique to Chinese scholars."