April 20th.
Gusu University.
In a spacious and bright conference room.
The school leaders gathered together.
President Zhu Xiu Lin looked around at everyone and said, “Everyone should have heard about Chen Yu, a lecturer in our medical department, who published 10 papers in Nature this month, right?”
As his words fell.
Everyone present nodded with smiles.
Cell, Nature, and Science, collectively known as CNS, are the top journals in the scientific field. They have a complete peer-review system.
The difficulty of submission makes them the “Mount Everest” in the hearts of scientists.
Every year, scholars and experts from around the world submit tens of thousands of papers to CNS, with a publication rate of less than 7 percent.
That's why.
In major universities across the country.
Once a student or teacher has a paper published in CNS, they will immediately become a “hot commodity” for the school, becoming a topic of much discussion.
In a way.
The number of CNS publications can also be a factor in how the outside world evaluates a university.
The school's teacher, Chen Yu, had 10 CNS papers published this month.
This exceeded everyone's expectations!
Zhu Xiu Lin slowly spoke, “Gusu University is a century-old institution, but it's actually quite ordinary among the 211 universities in China.
In 2010, our school proposed a development strategy of “strengthening the school through talent,” actively introducing high-level talent, and improving the talent training mechanism.
The school has successively implemented a series of talent training programs, such as the “Blue Project,” “Green and Blue Project,” and “Golden Eagle Plan,” to provide a platform for the growth of young teachers.
Thanks to these measures.
Gusu University has seen a group of excellent teaching and research talents emerge, injecting strong momentum into the school's development.
Aside from talent development.
Our school places great emphasis on discipline construction and scientific research innovation.
The school uses its characteristic advantageous disciplines as the leader, continuously optimizes its disciplinary layout, and promotes cross-disciplinary integration.
Currently, our school has formed a strong base in science and engineering, represented by materials science, microelectronics, nanotechnology, and medicine, as well as characteristic advantages in humanities and social sciences, such as Wu culture research, film and television art, etc.
At the same time, Gusu University established a world-class research institute for cutting-edge technology in mouse gene modification—the Sanger Asia Pacific Resource Center, driving the development of the school's life sciences, medicine, and pharmacy disciplines.
At this stage, our school has already entered the upper echelon of 211 universities nationwide.”
As these words were spoken.
Everyone present nodded in agreement.
Since President Zhu Xiu Lin took office.
Gusu University has been soaring, advancing one step at a time each year.
Obviously, this is inseparable from President Zhu's strategic vision.
In addition, ample financial support, good educational facilities, strong support from the Su City government, and the joint efforts of all faculty and staff are also important factors in the school's rise.
At the head of the table.
Zhu Xiu Lin changed the subject, saying, “The school has made rapid progress in recent years, with a high output of research papers.
But in the past five years, there haven't been any CNS main journal papers at all!
You know, CNS main journal papers represent academic precision.
In the rankings of CNS publications among domestic universities and research institutions.
The Shanghai Institute of Life Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has 209 CNS publications in the past five years, ranking first in the country.
Peking University has 169 CNS publications in the past five years, ranking second in the country.
Tsinghua University has 156 CNS publications in the past five years, ranking third in the country.
BGI Genomics in Shenzhen has 128 CNS publications in the past five years, ranking fourth in the country.
Fudan University has 117 CNS publications in the past five years, ranking fifth in the country.
Province-wide.
Nanjing University has 69 CNS publications in the past five years, ranking first in the province.
Nanjing Medical University has 29 CNS publications in the past five years, ranking second in the province.
Nanjing Agricultural University has 7 CNS publications in the past five years, ranking third in the province.
And our Gusu University.
In the past five years, there have been 0 CNS publications!
This time, Teacher Chen Yu has saved face for Gusu University!”
Hearing this.
The school's senior officials all felt a sense of vindication.
Over the years, the school has recruited many high-level talents, many of whom have published CNS papers.
Unfortunately, these papers.
Nominally, they belonged to their previous schools or institutions.
Take Chen Yu as an example.
Before joining Gusu University, Chen Yu had published one Nature paper, one Science paper, and one Cell paper.
But these three papers were nominally attributed to Fudan University!
But this time.
The 10 CNS papers Chen Yu published while teaching at Gusu University belonged to Gusu University!
Zhu Xiu Lin continued, “I've been researching Teacher Chen's background for the past two days.
Since he joined, he gets up at 6 a.m. to go for a run and exercise.
During the day, he has to teach 10-plus classes, with 20 lectures a week.
At night, he has to prepare lessons, record online courses, and write papers.
He doesn't go to bed until midnight every day, and there are no holidays, so it's very hard work.
During the paper-writing process.
Teacher Chen did not receive any research funding from the school.
This is a dereliction of duty on the part of the school.
What do you say, how should the school reward Teacher Chen? Should we promote him?”
As soon as these words were spoken.
The school leaders began to chatter amongst themselves.
“President Zhu, the research bonus at Gusu University is IF impact factor × 20,000 yuan. I think we can award him according to this bonus!”
“This year, Nature has an impact factor of 42.351, so ten papers would be 42.351 × 20,000 yuan × 10 = 8,470,200 yuan!”
“I agree with this award method! An 8 million yuan research bonus seems like a lot, but Chen Yu is an outstanding talent, he should be rewarded!”
“President Zhu, there's no problem with the bonus, but it's better to wait a while before giving him a promotion. After all, Chen Yu has only been at the school for two months, so he lacks some qualifications.”
“Judging from the 10 top journal papers, Chen Yu is very gifted in research. I personally think that along with the bonus, we should also allocate some research funds for him!”
“...”
Everyone was chattering away.
The discussion was lively.
After a while, Zhu Xiu Lin finally made a decision, saying, “Since that's the case, let's put off Teacher Chen's promotion for a while.
As for the research bonus, let's round it up to 10 million yuan in cash.
As for research funding.
The school will allocate 50 million yuan to Teacher Chen for scientific research.”
Hearing this, everyone agreed.
The university education sector places great emphasis on talent.
A prodigy like Chen Yu, even if you give him all the benefits and treatment in the world, it wouldn't be too much.