Chapter 549: Run a magazine?
The aftermath of Tian Lu's election as an academician of the Academy of Sciences took ten days to gradually calm down.
From the announcement of the news on Thursday to the next Saturday, Tian Lu didn't remember how many calls he received or how many blessings he received. He went out to attend symposiums held by schools, colleges, hospitals, and even basic medical schools almost every day. Then he invited three departments under his command to dinner, invited some close comrades from the Kyoto Neurosurgery Committee to dinner, and visited Shi Dongyun and others to thank the other party for their support...
It took ten days to finally calm down.
However, although he calmed down around him, he had already won the title of academician of the Academy of Sciences, and he was the youngest among the newly elected academicians this year. Even among all the current academicians of the Academy of Sciences, Tian Lu is also the youngest. Moreover, if he was elected as an academician of the American Academy of Sciences a few months ago, he won two very important titles within a year, which made many people pay attention to Tian Lu.
The interview requirements of TV, newspapers and other media are naturally inevitable, but just like a few months ago, Tian Lu still turned down most of them and only accepted brief interviews from two or three companies. As for other interview requirements, and even some invitations to Tian Lu that hoped that some health science popularization TV programs were invited to be blocked by Tian Lu.
“The question now is, what should be done with invitations from those academic organizations?”
He Tianlin looked through the notepad in his hand and asked with a headache: "The invitation to the meeting is the same as before, and I basically declined the invitation from these academic organizations. However, I dare not make decisions on the invitation from these academic organizations. They are very sincere and have also made it clear that academicians must lead academic activities when they come in, so..."
“Academic Organization?”
After pondering for a moment, Tian Lu asked, "What academic organizations are there? Are they related to us?"
He Tianlin nodded and smiled, "It's all related to us, such as professional academic organizations such as the Anti-epileptic Alliance, local academic organizations such as the Kyoto Neuroscience Society, etc. Some of them have invited you before. I guess it was this time that you were elected as an academician of the Academy of Sciences that they remembered again. Oh, by the way. Several domestic academic journals have also sent you invitation letters. If you want to invite you to be the editorial board of the magazine, the editorial directors of four or five magazines even made it clear when they called me that if you want, they will directly hire you as the editor-in-chief when the next editorial board is re-elected!"
“Um…”
Rubbing his chin, Tian Lu frowned and began to ponder.
In terms of academic organizations, Tian Lu does not intend to join too much. According to his personality, since he has taken on his position, he must take responsibility, so if he joins too much, he will definitely not be able to take care of it. In Tian Lu's plan, the Kyoto Neurology and Surgery Branch, the Huaxia Neurosurgery Branch, and perhaps the Internal Medicine Branch, and the Huaxia Neuroscience Society will only join these five academic organizations, and the others are not very interested.
However, the editorial board of academic journals...
Looking at the list He Tianlin recorded and pondered for a moment, Tian Lu suddenly looked up and asked, "Tianlin, do you think the editorial board of these magazines are interesting?"
"this……"
He Tianlin was stunned when he heard this, and then smiled bitterly: "It depends on what you think. Basically, experts generally do not refuse invitations from journals. After all, their job is to help review manuscripts, and at most sometimes they can help write two articles. And as far as I know, many professors have the title of editorial board of more than a dozen magazines!"
“So many?”
When Tian Lu heard this number, he couldn't help but be slightly surprised!
“Not much.”
He Tianlin smiled and shook his head and said, "As an editorial board member, you may not necessarily have to help them. Many times, some magazines rely on the title of experts to improve the level of magazines. Fame is considered to be mutually helpful. However, for your current identity, I personally recommend that you have four or five books. Picking the best ones is not a big workload, which is also a part-time job in society."
"That's how..."
Tian Lu understood a little, but after thinking about it for a while, he shook his head and said, "Forget it, there are still too many, I think there are only two books, one is "Chinese Journal of Neurosurgery" and the other is "Chinese Journal of Neurobiology", and only two are they!"
With a systematic medical literature support system, Tian Lu doesn't think he will spend much time on reviewing manuscripts, but he is really unwilling to be involved in too many academic journals.
Needless to say, Tian Lu has long been their special editorial board member, and when the re-elected next year is nothing more than a formal one. This was emphasized again when the editorial director Xia Mo called to congratulate him a few days ago, so Tian Lu agreed happily. All members of the Huaxia Neurosurgery Committee are basically the editorial board member of this magazine, which is almost an unwritten practice, and Tian Lu doesn't want to break it.
As for the Chinese Journal of Neurobiology, it should be the best in the field of basic scientific research. Tian Lu is also quite interested in understanding the latest research progress in China. After all, as Tian Lu has entered more and more fields in recent years, historical literature publication records have often changed quietly.
As for the others, let's forget it...
Tianlu is not the one who just returned to China. Although most of the time I spent on scientific research, it usually solved a lot of things, so naturally it was very tricky in these domestic academic journals.
Like the two books mentioned by Tian Lu just now, there is a very complete manuscript review and recruitment system. In addition to the two editorial boards reviewing each article, the final draft needs to be finalized to determine the manuscript catalog for each issue. It can be said that there is still a certain control over the quality of manuscripts. However, for other magazines with uneven quality, let alone a final draft. Even if you can review the manuscript, you can save as much as possible. Many times, the editorial department director can determine whether to hire it with a slap in his head.
Manuscripts of favor, money, corporate soft articles...
All kinds of manuscripts will exist, and there are also various situations such as "urgent" and "special review", which can be said to be quite speechless.
It is better to have nothing than to have nothing.
The best scientific research results in China are rarely published in China, so it is hard for Tian Lu to imagine what kind of manuscripts those lower-level magazines will receive.
"Okay, then I'll reply them one by one."
Although he felt that Tian Lu chose too few magazines, He Tianlin hesitated for a moment, but did not continue to persuade him, nodded and agreed.
"By the way!"
Just as He Tianlin was about to start talking about the next thing, Tian Lu suddenly clapped his hands and asked with a smile: "Tianlin, how about you, if we run an academic magazine ourselves?"
"Do it yourself?"
He Tianlin was stunned when he heard this.
Tian Lu nodded and smiled, "Yes, let's get one by ourselves, and we can publish articles from our subjects, including the research institute and laboratory, in the future, in our future. What do you think?"
"I don't think it's very good!"
He Tianlin, who soon realized it, shook his head and said without hesitation.
"Why?"
Tian Lu asked curiously.
He took a deep breath, as if he was quite painful for his director's sudden whim. He Tianlin sighed and said, "Director. Since you want to run a magazine, you shouldn't want to run a bad magazine, right? Any excellent academic journal, that is, those academic journals with high impact factors, have basically been developed for decades or even hundreds of years. Even if we can't do that, at least we must do it relatively well, right? So do you know what conditions are required to run an excellent magazine, especially an excellent academic journal?"
"I really don't know this..."
After tilting his head and thinking for a while, Tian Lu shook his head honestly and said.
"First, you want someone!"
He stretched out his right hand and bent the other four fingers except the index finger. He Tianlin said seriously: "Don't look at the fact that there are many people with senior professional titles in our three departments now, but everyone is engaged in scientific research and is a doctor. Who can be an editor? This industry is like our neurosurgeons, and it takes quite a long time to train! If you say you can poach people, I just want to say one thing, don't say that senior old editors are hard to dig. Even if you dig one or two, it is not something that can be done in one or two years!"
"Uh, maybe."
Although he didn't agree with He Tianlin's pessimistic idea, Tian Lu still felt something was right, so he nodded and said, "What about the second one?"
"Second, you need to have money!"
There is one or two, He Tianlin stretched out his middle finger and said, "It costs money to office space? It costs money to print various offices, including magazines? In addition, if you just want to buy a strait team, it will definitely not cost a lot of money, but if you establish an excellent editorial department, you must hire an editor of sufficient level, right? This money will be even more."
"Well, if this is the case... it shouldn't be a big problem?"
Tian Lu frowned and replied with some confidence.
For Tianlu now, money is of course not a problem, but the key is that if you want to run an academic journal, your personal investment will definitely not work, and you must rely on the strength of the unit.
An academic journal must have a supervisory unit and a sponsor, and these units must be state-owned, so it cannot be a private structure like Future Bio, otherwise, there will be no problem in the previous period, but when the magazine truly has great influence in the future, many things will be no longer mentioned.
"If it doesn't work, please ask the leaders for help, or collect some money from the institute and neurosurgery, and solve the start-up capital first!"
Tian Lu thought secretly in his heart.
The institute and neurosurgery are still relatively abundant now, especially in addition to the regular income, the two companies receive a lot of funding support from enterprises every year, so Tian Lu naturally had an idea.
As for what I said in the future, I will rely on the magazine's own hematopoietic function.
Even Tian Lu knows that the input of academic journals relies on advertising. Especially for drug advertisements, because prescription drugs and medical devices are not allowed to be advertised in mass media, and it is not very useful if you make it. Therefore, magazine advertisements, especially those of top academic magazines, have become resources that major pharmaceutical companies are closely watching.
Tian Lu is still confident that he can run the magazine well and get a large amount of advertising revenue in the future.
"Third, you need a source of manuscripts!"
He Tianlin continued: "A academic journal can range from forty-eight to more than one hundred. Do you think about it? Even if you start a bimonthly journal, how many manuscripts are needed? As a brand new magazine, where can we go to?"
“What’s there to worry about?”
Tian Lu blinked and laughed: "If you don't say anything else, our three companies will have a lot of manuscripts every year in the future. What are you afraid of?!"
Regarding Tian Lu's confident judgment, He Tianlin just smiled slightly and said happily: "Director, are you sure that everyone in our three units is willing to post the article in this new magazine? Are you really sure?"
"Of course I...uh!"
After just saying a little while, Tian Lu's words suddenly came to an abrupt end!
"You're not sure?"
He Tianlin raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "But what I'm sure is that no one is willing to hand over the article to a new magazine for publication! Everyone's articles are summarized through hard work and hard work. Naturally, they hope that the greater the influence, the better. They will definitely give priority to famous foreign journals, followed by old domestic magazines, such as newly established magazines. Even if you are the boss, they may not be willing? Haha, unless you give a dead order, they must submit the manuscript!"
"Ah? This, this is definitely not possible!"
As soon as He Tianlin finished speaking, Tian Lu immediately shook his head.
Even if Tian Lu’s topic is proposed by him, the plan and plan will be implemented by others and the final answer will be obtained. He has no reason to erase other people’s hopes! Just like Huang Qiaoqiao, if Tian Lu proposes it, she naturally cannot refuse to agree, but is this fair to others?
He Tianlin's three consecutive questions were thrown out, which immediately made Tian Lu start to rethink his idea.
Of course, it was not a whim for Tian Lu to start a magazine by himself. In fact, it was also a long plan in his mind. The main reason was the long publishing cycle of ordinary magazines and the limitation of publishing space.
If you want to publish a research result in a magazine, you must write an article, which limits a certain length and content. This is indeed difficult for Tian Lu to accept. Just like the article I handed over to BMJ, even if he compressed it and then compressed it, it was still divided into three publications. Tian Lu had this idea, hoping that the conclusions of some major topics in the future can be fully announced as soon as possible!
But now after hearing what He Tianlin said, it is really not easy to run an influential magazine!
Chapter completed!