I actually saw myself and corrected some details. After graduating in 2018, I applied to Tongji University but was not admitted. With the help of my tutor, I worked as a research assistant in the laboratory. I waited for a year before entering Tongji University. Therefore, I have been in this group for 4 years now! Several electrochemical experiments can be carried out at the same time, so the efficiency is faster than that of traditional environmental experiments. There is no doubt about this! Several papers, especially the early research, were still in the exploratory stage, and the results were a bit watery. Later, I slowly started to get started and started to publish some higher results. It can be said that it is step by step.
1. It can only be said that it is very impressive. This (thesis level) is already close to the level of outstanding young students. Simply speaking of masterpieces, the total number of communications for one work must be at least 40 to be useful. However, generally speaking, if you can publish 1-2 WR ESTs during your Ph.D., you will open champagne to celebrate. This time, starting from 5 articles, it can only be said that the gap between Ph.D.s is wider than that of humans and dogs. Tongji itself belongs to the top echelon of domestic environmental disciplines, and Tsinghua University-Harbin Institute of Technology-Tongji University are all top-notch. One is that the platform itself is awesome, posting WR EST is commonplace, and it is easy to publish articles on research topics. My previous praise was for the paper level, because WR EST is the top journal in the environmental field. ?
It seems that the question is about electrochemistry. This kind of test cycle is short, the reactor is small, and the gimmicks are quite sufficient. In addition, it is combined with various characterizations of the material science. Compared with yours Of course it is easier to publish articles if you are a traditional environmental worker. Some people who are better at electrochemistry no longer bother to publish WR EST. They usually publish in top journals or even sub-journals of chemistry or materials. In comparison, publishing WR EST is already a secondary option for them. It can only be said that the field of environment or water supply and drainage is too large and interdisciplinary. Many people can only see that WR EST is the top journal, and publishing the top journal is a fraud, but they cannot see the difficulty comparison of different tracks. A world of difference.
2. I have friends who are purely engaged in catalysis. A bunch of WR EST masterpieces can’t even be admitted to Qingji. They must at least start with ACB~ But you take 5 WR ESTs to cover the traditional water treatment field. It's definitely a dimensionality reduction attack. Of course, I even have a senior brother whose best masterpieces are only BT and JCLP, but he actually got it right in one go. To be honest, I, a thief who is conscientiously building reactors, envy those who engage in electrochemistry and catalysis. One is that building reactors is time-consuming, laborious and expensive, and the reactors are too engineering. Ideas and novelties are hard to find, and papers are not available either. It's easy to get angry, and it's a thankless task. Who's a professional in the environment who doesn't want to crazily drink WR EST? There are usually several divisions of labor in the Daniel team at Tongji. For example, there is a group of people who help Daniel with business operations and practical tasks, and there is a group of people who are responsible for writing articles.
3. Nowadays, students are not stupid. A buddy of mine is a teacher in Tongji, and he is under the supervision of a certain outstanding young boss. He complained to me that the master’s and doctoral students there are not stupid, and they all rush to study electrochemistry. , catalytic small bosses mix, WR EST is distributed casually, who the hell wants to do traditional environmental work for your own sake, let you work hard to do a pilot test, you have not finished the experiment, and your classmates have published 2 WRs. How should I put it, it is indeed a scientific research code. You call him stupid, but the articles he publishes are all in WR EST, the top environmental journal of high quality. It is enough for him to go directly to 211 associate professors after graduating from his Ph.D. If you want to say that he is incompetent, his research is just a material-oriented flowerhead. To put it harshly, it has no practical value. Now WR is no longer the WR that valued engineering applications when Mark was in power. Nowadays, various materials catalyzed Crazy collection, taking advantage of the track.
The kind that can publish more than 10 articles. If it is not for irrigation, you really can’t explain it. There are only 24 hours a day. If every article is full of useful information, then I want to ask when this experiment will be. Made? Hire someone to do it? The final thesis should not be 100,000 words long.
But you will find that even if a doctor publishes 10 SCI papers during his PhD, his doctoral thesis is only 150-160 pages. Doctors are eager to write everything they have done into the final doctoral thesis, so why do they publish so many small papers? , in the end the total amount of doctoral thesis will still be the same amount? Then there is only one possibility, that is, there is really not much useful information in each small paper! ?
4. For a doctorate and 3-4 years of scientific research, the amount of experiments required to support 2-3 small papers is normal. No matter how hard you work, you can produce 5 papers. , then how can we publish 10 SCI articles in the end? Isn’t it just to divide the experimental amount of one article into two or three papers to write? Isn’t this just watering down? Why should I be embarrassed to admit it? According to my observation, the doctorates around me are all very similar in level, and there is no obvious gap, but the doctorates have different preferences!
Some Ph.D.s like to rush to the top journals and wish to exhaust their entire Ph.D. just to publish a science and nature article. However, some Ph.D.s do not seek quality but quantity, and publish as much data as they can. If you don't win in District 2, you can vote in District 3. If you don't win in District 3, you can vote in District 4. If you don't win in District 4, you can vote in open source. . The painful facts tell us that most people who choose the first path fail, and many who choose the second path are happy!
5. Same effort and same dedication, but the difference in results is disappointing. I can responsibly say that if you plan to graduate with a Ph.D. and go to a company, then you should choose the second path. In the eyes of some HRs, the top magazine you are thinking about is just a magazine. Many HRs don’t even know what it is. SCI! Even if you plan to stay in college to teach, I recommend you to take the second path, because publishing top journals really requires equipment and resources. Go to an ordinary school, no matter how good you are, it will be difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice, and other schools will recruit you. It’s just for publishing articles. If you tell the boss that your equipment is not good and I can’t write good articles, then the boss will ask you to go away!
There is another misunderstanding that doctoral students often make. They always wait until all the experiments are completed and the data is processed before starting to write a thesis. To be honest, in this era when papers are so popular, , if you still follow this routine, your future is really worrying. If you have no strength or academic pursuits, just go ahead and focus on quantity rather than quality. Split one article into two submissions! Wheel war, keep all your papers in review status! It's not shameful to be irritated, it's shameful to be scolded by the instructor every day if you can't complete your studies, and it's shameful to be looked down upon by your junior brothers and sisters!