Rebirth of the God-level Xueba

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In China, academic misconduct is a more pervasive problem than political corruption. Using scientific research funds for daily expenses is already a kind of unspoken rule, and unlike political corruption, there are very few institutions that manage and supervise academic expenditures. Academician Zou Chenglu once cited an academic person, saying that this gentleman published a paper in a few years, an average of one paper a week, and he did nothing but copy papers, but it was too late, which is really unbelievable.

Foreigners will not be more moral. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh conducted a statistical analysis of the first academic misconduct survey conducted in the UK between 19 and 19. They found that one in seven researchers knew that their colleagues had seriously violated academic norms. , such as falsification of scientific research results, about 10% of scientists reported that some of their colleagues’ behavior in academic research is “questionable”, such as “selective” reporting research data, modifying research conclusions under pressure from research funding parties, etc. .

Japanese beauty researchers are even more famous. The papers that produced fake data and images were almost selected for the Nobel Prize. Of course, the Chinese academia in the early 1980s was even more loosely managed. The story of the satellite with a yield of ten thousand catties per mu has not been long. For the sake of "scientific progress" and to save time and research funds, it is also common for researchers to falsify scientific results under the pressure of politicians.

However, when the emperor's new clothes are not torn apart, they are new clothes, and if they are torn off, it will be a scandal. This is the case for ten thousand catties per mu and academic misconduct.

Yang Rui is not sure whether Li Xin will really cheat academically, but papers related to light industry are also very difficult. There will be a lot of calculations, a lot of physics and chemistry, which is much more than the task of writing winter vacation homework, and there is no To put it bluntly, not every researcher's calculation level has passed the test.

Li Xin is in his thirties this year, that is, he was born in the 1950s. He basically spent his elementary and middle schools in the revolution. double the resources.

Yang Rui didn't ask anyone for help, so he found Li Xin's thesis under the item of East China Institute of Textile Technology. The library of Peking University is well organized. It took Yang Rui some effort, but he still found three papers and published them in three Chinese journals.

Three years of postgraduate study and three papers were published, which is a pretty good achievement. No wonder Li Xin wanted to continue his academic career. Yang Rui nodded his head. Most of the graduate students of later generations start to do research from the second grade, and only those who are more powerful and meet a great supervisor can start from the first grade. papers as the goal.

Graduate students in the 1980s were actually later. They often needed to make up classes during the first year of research, and attended classes during the second year of graduate school. Fortunately, they didn’t have to look for a job. They always had about a year and a half of research time, and three papers were quite good grades. Yang Rui borrowed three periodicals and flipped through them first.

The domestic journal evaluation system in the 1980s was very chaotic.

It's just that the number of journals is still small, and the overall level is high-end. Li Xin's papers are all in good positions, and all three are experimental papers on amorphous metals. Amorphous metal is actually metallic glass, which was a hot research topic in the 1980s. It is indeed a very good direction to continue research after a Ph.D.

However, when Yang Rui read the thesis in detail, he discovered the problems in it.

Two of the three papers used data from the same experiment.

This is actually very easy to understand. Some experiments are time-consuming, labor-intensive and costly, and the success rate is low. They are finally done, and I definitely want to make full use of them. However, there are many ways to use it. In-depth research and citation of the previous article is the most legitimate procedure. On the other hand, once the previous article is cited, the originality of this paper will be greatly reduced. People, the chances of being rejected are high. For example, the inventor Mullis, his first paper was published in "Nature", and the subsequent in-depth research redid a new experiment, but was rejected by "Science" because he did not explain the difference from the paper published in "Nature". In the end, I could only go to "Methods of Enzymology".

In order to reduce the chance of rejection, many paper authors will not cite the previous papers of the same experiment.

It's a gray area that isn't popular, but it exists.

The reviewers have not read every paper, they remember every paper, even if they find out that they are rejected, it is not much trouble, and the reviewers are not academic police, even if they say a few words, it will not be a big deal .

Only a few countries have strict academic management, but even so, scholars are so busy with such a high-end academic thing, it is difficult to truly strictly manage it.

Moreover, many scholars are not afraid of punishment, and the worst is to resign and work in a private company. In the environment of China in the 1980s, an ordinary researcher might not do well in Beijing, but as long as he is willing to leave Beijing, the whole country is full of places to go, and there will still be many local companies to recruit. Therefore, compared to the weak punishment of academic misconduct, it is more cost-effective to grasp the present and quickly improve the title and reputation.

Li Xin obviously took a small shortcut.

He did not cite his previous paper, making his second paper an entirely new one. Yang Rui read them carefully and soon understood why.

Li Xin's two articles are basically the same.

This is much more than two articles using one experiment. After confirming this point, Yang Rui took out a pen and paper and silently calculated.

After a while, the secret of Li Xin's two papers was revealed, which was nothing more than a numbers game. The first paper discusses the success rate, the second paper discusses the failure rate, the first paper makes a function curve, and the second paper uses a table instead.

If you don't look carefully, you may think that he is overused, but if you look carefully, it is actually a rewrite of a paper.

Of course, this is much simpler than doing another experiment, and maybe you can save the experiment funds to eat a few good meals.

"If it's a report, it's at least an internal scandal." Yang Rui thought for a while, put away the three periodicals, and prepared to check them out again. Naturally, this was another privilege he had in the library.

The two periodicals that he had read carefully before were put away, but when Yang Rui picked up the third periodical, he suddenly thought: This product succeeded once, why did he write a completely different paper? If the thesis is true, why not reuse it once?

The so-called dog can't change the ****, the method Li Xin is using now is a relatively new skill, and it's hard to learn it, so it's a pity to only use it once.

So Yang Rui sat down, reopened the third paper, and "tasted" it carefully.

As a Chinese graduate student, one must have the ability to identify true and false papers, especially the data and results of papers published in Chinese journals. If you can’t use them, don’t use them, otherwise you will build your own papers on sand. And if you prepare the cost of the thesis by yourself, that's even more so. You can't build sand on sand, because it will collapse too quickly.

Compared with the cost methods of later generations, Li Xin's methods are much more traditional and classic.

Yang Rui quickly found a beautiful experimental line from his experimental data.

So beautiful that it goes perfectly with the paper. "It seems that we need to find someone to redo this thesis." Yang Rui thought of Wei Zhenxue as soon as he thought about it.

... (end of this chapter)

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