During the time when Sun Ruyue and others were preparing for the experiment, Yang Rui took his own disassembly and read the letters.

Later generations included WeChat, QQ, SMS, phone, email and other contact tools, but in China in the 1980s, letters were the most basic and important contact tools.

When asked by Chinese people in the 1980s, there are only ones who have never written a letter, but there are too many who have never made phone calls or shot telegrams.

Although Yang Rui calls every day whenever he wants, he is a rich man and cannot be compared with ordinary people.

Now it costs only a few cents to send a letter, but it may cost a few dollars to make a phone call. Moreover, the phone is not something you can call just by wanting it. For example, if you have a phone call, in Xizhaizi Township, besides the township government, it is even a post office, and the phone can’t be called by picking up the phone. Manual transfers all the way to Beijing may take half an hour, and it’s not uncommon to wait for two or three hours on a busy day.

It can be said that the telephone line to Beijing in 1984 was even more congested than the road to Beijing in 2014.

Yang Rui's classmates in Ruixue's school group, experts he met at meetings, and even experts he didn't like to write to him.

Nowadays, it is normal for an ordinary college student to send or receive more than a dozen emails in a semester. Unlike later generations, they have to send several pages of letters. Many people like to write big characters, and write twenty or thirty words per page. After a letter, there are probably no 144 words.

Some of these letters are chatting, some greetings, and some talking about work, but most of them are chatting.

Yang Rui was also used to writing text messages. He put the letter on the left and the letter paper on the right. While reading, he replied to the letter. After the letter was written, he put it in an envelope and sealed it, and then tied the reply message to the credit rubber band he sent. Of course, there was a scientific research dog to help fill in the reply address, post stamps and send it. It was no longer much troublesome than sending and receiving mobile phone text messages.

Of course, the premise is that there is a scientific research dog to help.

Below more than a dozen domestic letters, there are four other foreign letters. Since Yang Rui participated in "International Medicine and Bioengineering", experts and professors who knew have sent exchange letters. After he published "CELL", even foreigners who didn't know have sent letters.

He is the corresponding author of the paper, so he naturally has to publish the contact information in "CELL". For the biological science community, heavyweight papers are equivalent to golden advertising space.

Yang Rui opened the letter without any haste and replied.

This is like later generations of researchers who have to write emails every day. Reading letters and replying letters have always been part of the researcher's work.

This way of working can be pushed forward for two or three hundred years. Many of Gauss' famous discoveries and achievements were even dug out from his letters by later scholars.

The teaching assistants and lecturers who also worked in the Tangjin Laboratory all watched Yang Rui write in English with envy. This is one of the reasons why everyone is rushing to attend international conferences. For students, having a foreign pen pal may be a cool thing. For scholars, having a foreign scholar exchanges experience is a real help and promotion.

"Huh." Yang Rui was a little surprised when he opened the last letter.

"Is there a good thing?" Assistant Teacher Tan, the head dog in the laboratory, walked over.

"JMC wants me to read a paper." Yang Rui did not answer the question of good or bad.

Assistant Professor Tan hissed and took a deep breath: "Is it yours that published the paper "JMC?"

"Yes."

"JMC invites you to be a reviewer?" Lecturer Fan, the second-in-command in the laboratory, was also attracted.

Yang Rui still nodded and said, "They are also peer review mechanisms."

Yang Rui had been a reviewer of "Biochemical System Ecology" before and had also reviewed several papers. However, after the scientific research competition for the potassium channel began, Yang Rui had no time to review the manuscript and rejected several articles in succession.

Of course, Yang Rui has not reviewed the manuscript of "JMC".

Although foreign journals do not have strict requirements for reviewers - after all, it is a voluntary task and two or three people conduct it at the same time, they still have the minimum qualification review of reviewers.

Especially for journals at the level of "JMC", their invitation to review manuscripts means a kind of qualification.

If only a threshold paper was published in the journal, it would be impossible for the editor to invite review unless he was stunned.

In addition, the identity of the invited reviewer will actually have a great impact on whether he is invited.

If you are a professor from a world-renowned university, you will definitely give the editor more confidence - most journal editors only have basic scientific research level and at most make achievements in some aspects. The journal editors depend entirely on the judgement of the reviewer for whether the content of the paper meets the requirements of the journal and whether it is valuable.

As a type of media, journals can only invite one or two powerful professors to support their appearance, but they cannot make every journal editor Leonardo da Vinci.

It can be said that choosing the right reviewer is one of the most important tasks of journal editors.

Out of caution, the more well-known colleges or research institutions, the more developed the colleges and research institutions, the more likely they are to be favored by editors.

Peking University in 1984 is far from meeting the standards of world-renowned universities, so there are naturally not many reviewers from foreign journals.

Assistant Professor Tan walked over with jealousy, simply stood behind Yang Rui and asked: "Who wrote the paper, can you see it?"

"It should be possible to see that peer review is single-blind." Lecturer Fan and Assistant Professor Tan stood side by side. He has only been graduating for three years and has not been a reviewer once.

Yang Rui nodded with a smile and said, "It should be a single blind."

A single blind means that the reviewer knows the personal information of the author of the paper, while the author of the paper does not know who is reviewing the manuscript.

Yang Rui unfolded the letter without any concealment.

Many professors are busy and don’t care about reviewing manuscripts. They often leave them to their students for exercises and then check them themselves. The journal also knows this situation and generally avoids stakeholders reviewing manuscripts from each other.

Lecturer Fan read the name raised with curious eyes and said: The-University-of-Tokyo...University of Tokyo? Or the professor's paper!"

"It's normal for a professor at the University of Tokyo to submit his articles to JMC."

"University of Tokyo... It is normal for professors from the University of Tokyo to submit JMC, but, but..." Lecturer Fan wanted to scream, but was suppressed by Yang Rui's calm attitude, which made him even more urge to shout.

Despite too many conflicts, in Asia in the 1980s, the University of Tokyo was well-deserved as the number one in Asia, and Peking University and Tsinghua University were even unable to squeeze into the second echelon composed of the National University of Singapore, Seoul University in South Korea, and Hebrew University in Israel.

Although it is nothing to write an ordinary paper from the University of Tokyo and send it to Yang Rui.

However, when such a theoretically possible thing happens, people in reality are still subject to sensory impact.

"Yang Rui can actually review the manuscript for professors at the University of Tokyo?" This idea surrounded Lecturer Fan and Assistant Professor Tan, making the two of them breathless.
Chapter completed!