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The national award defense time is only three minutes, so there is no need to make the PPT too exaggerated, just list the key points.

Therefore, it took Xu Qiu three minutes to complete the defense PPT, a total of five pages.

First of all, he listed the latest work, including the two AM Grand Slam articles of PCE11 and ITIC, plus the 3D-PDI article published on NC.

For these three tasks, Xu Qiu intercepted the pictures with the title, author and journal LOGO from the original PDF, and then put a corresponding TOC picture (summary of the picture version) respectively, and hung the citation format of the document in the lower right corner.

For the two Grand Slam articles, Xu Qiu also put up the corresponding cover pictures, and hung up the small crown and small flame patterns representing hot articles and highly cited articles on wos.

On the remaining two pages, Xu Qiu listed all his academic achievements in the past year, and marked his name in bold, not counting the few articles that were named by Gong Yuanjiang, a total of 25 articles.

Originally, Xu Qiu wanted to put these academic achievements in one page of PPT, but found that there is no way to list them on one page, unless the font is reduced to a very small size, but that will affect other people's viewing experience. In the end, there is no other way but to list It's two pages.

Three minutes to talk about five pages of PPT, the time is still a bit tight.

Therefore, during the defense, Xu Qiu decided to talk about the main highlights of the three masterpieces at will, and let the defense teachers write the rest.

After completing the defense PPT, Xu Qiu began to write a review of "Joule", tentatively titled "Recent Progress of ITIC Series Organic Photovoltaic Non-Fullerene Acceptors".

This title seems a bit simple, but after all, it is a review and not an experimental work. It is still difficult to come up with a title full of gimmicks.

Before officially writing the article, Xu Qiu first planned to understand the basic information of the journal "Joule".

The ACS, RSC, and Wiley templates that are usually issued are basically the same length. If it is the same series of journals within the same journal company, the templates are exactly the same.

For example, Wiley's "advanced" series, AM, AEM, AFM, AELM, Adv. Sci., etc., use the same template.

And new journals like "Joule" may produce some "new" things, and the requirements may be different from the usual journals.

Especially in the reference section, basically every journal company has its own set of reference formats:

Some require to list all the authors of the cited documents, some require the authors to list only three or less, and other authors use et. al. (etc.) to omit;

Some require the author’s surname to be in front of the first name, such as Xu Qiu;

Some use commas to connect different authors, and some use semicolons;

Some require that the title of the article is not included in the reference, some may or may not be included, and some require the title to be included;

In journals with titles, some require the first letter of each word in the title to be capitalized, except for a few words that do not need to be capitalized, including short prepositions, articles, infinitive codes to, and coordinating conjunctions with 4 or less letters , some require all letters to be lowercase;

Most journals require full page numbers when citing, such as 388-392, and some only need to write the first page number, such as 388;

Some years should be placed in parentheses, and some period numbers should be placed in parentheses;

Most journals can omit the issue number and only indicate the volume number, while some journals must indicate the issue number;

In addition, the rules for italicizing and bolding the year, volume number, and issue number are also different...

All in all, very annoying.

Even if you use the professional ENDNOTE document processing tool, there is no guarantee that you can get the completely correct document format. Basically, you need to manually modify the past one by one.

If the number of references is very large, it may take half a day or a whole day to format the references.

Therefore, it is better to understand these details thoroughly in advance, so that it can be done in one step, so that there is no need to take detours.

Therefore, Xu Qiu checked the journal "Joule" on the MEDSCI website.

The most noteworthy thing is the impact factor of the journal.

Although the impact factor is sometimes distorted, and many metrology experts or organizations have proposed various algorithms, including CiteScore, etc. to measure the influence of journals, the impact factor is still the most commonly used criterion so far.

Now, the real-time impact factor of "Joule" has reached 29.1.

From this point of view, the editorial team of "Joule" is still doing well.

If this impact factor can be steadily increased to about 40, then the gap between "Joule" and the top journals of AM and JACS level can be widened, and it can gain a firm foothold in the level of "Nature". .

Xu Qiu continued to check, "Joule" and "Cell" both belong to Cellpress (Life Science Research Publishing House).

The Life Science Research Press belongs to Elsevier (Elsevier), and this is the first time the group has come into contact with journals under Elsevier.

In the usual group, Elsevier will be called "Tree Leaf" journal, because their LOGO is a tree, and this LOGO will be placed in the upper left corner of the article home page, and the color scheme is also somewhat retro, which is very eye-catching .

However, Wei Xingsi has never submitted to a journal under Elsevier, and Xu Qiu did not ask Mr. Wei the specific reason before.

Later, Xu Qiu found the answer in the process of reading the literature—this is actually a choice made by colleagues in the field of organic photovoltaics.

Xu Qiu counted 250 papers published in the first and second districts of organic photovoltaics in the past two years. Among them, the three major journal companies ACS, RSC, and Wiley are basically evenly divided, and the number of articles under each journal company ranges from 50 to 100.

There are only 14 articles in the literature of other journal companies, 5 of which are "Nature Communications" (NC), 1 "Nature Materials", and 8 are Nano Energy under Elsevier, Nano Energy is also a district The article, with an impact factor of 10+, has almost the same status as AM.

Calculated, Elsevier, which is known as the world's four major journal companies together with ACS, RSC, and Wiley, accounts for less than 4% of its articles.

It's really bleak...

Xu Qiu speculates that it is probably related to Elsevier's main focus on the field of medical biology. For example, its representative journals "Cell" and "The Lancet" are two of the most famous journals in the field of medical biology research.

There are also rumors that Elsevier's journals related to the field of organic photovoltaics, including Nano Energy, Nano Letter, etc., are now very serious in the circle, and editors "recognize people", not directly rejecting manuscripts by insiders, and I don't know if it is true or not.

Of course, even if these rumors are true, it has nothing to do with Xu Qiu, after all, it is the editor-in-chief of "Joule" who is taking the initiative to ask for a manuscript.

After understanding the current influence of the "Joule" journal, Xu Qiu opened the "Joule" official website, directly downloaded several latest articles, and began to make templates.

Generally, journal companies will provide a simple template, but that template is really very simple, equivalent to nothing, it is better to directly download an original text and apply it.

After some inspection, Xu Qiu found that the new issue of "Joule" was really gaudy and full of flaws.

The first is the journal style, looking around, a piece of green:

The journal LOGO is green, the abstract text is green, the subtitle is green, and the hyperlink is green, including a large green square on the right side of the CellPress (Life Science Research Publishing House) logo in the upper right corner. I don’t know what it is. Well use...

If you want to explain it, Joule can think of energy, energy extends to new energy, and finally new energy is associated with green new energy, so it is green...

Although the logic is a bit forced, it is barely reasonable.

Secondly, the homepage of the article in "Joule" is a huge TOC, which takes up more than half of the page. Below is a text description of the TOC. Supplement to the Abstract and Introduction in "Context \u0026 Scale" of the EES Journal.

How should I put it, it's pretty complete.

But to be honest, Xu Qiu didn't think it made much sense to do so.

It takes a lot of effort for readers to read, and it takes a lot of effort for authors to write. They need to express the same content in five different ways...

Again, the location of the abstract is not honestly named "Abstract (Summary)", but renamed "Summary (Summary)", the title of the conclusion part is directly omitted, but the content is still there.

The text is double-column, with text on the left and remarks on the right, with a space ratio of 2:1.

But since there are no comments in most cases, it leaves a lot of blank space on the right, which is equivalent to a single column.

Usually other journals are 1:1 double column size, I am used to the 1:1 double column, and I am not used to this 2:1 double column.

The column division is related to the journal company. The standard articles of "Nature" and "Science" are three-column. Most journals of ACS, RSC, Wiley, including Elsevier are 1:1 two-column. Although CellPress belongs to Elsevier, but It is relatively independent, so it is not surprising to do some flower work.

In addition, similar to the "Nature" sub-journal, detailed experimental steps, author contributions, etc. are required to be listed.

Finally, here comes the important point. As a journal at the sub-journal level of "Nature", the manuscript processing speed of "Joule" is very fast.

Several key time nodes of one of the manuscripts are as follows:

Received: April 25, 2015 (Submission: April 25, 2015)

Revised: May 22, 2015 (Revised: May 22, 2015)

Accepted: June 5, 2015 (Accepted: June 5, 2015)

Published: July 3, 2015 (officially published: July 3, 2015)

This was something Xu Qiu had never thought of. It only took 40 days from submission to acceptance, and it also included a revision.

When he submitted an article for "Nature Energy" before, he also checked the key time nodes of the manuscripts of several major sub-journals of "Nature". They did not list the time when the manuscripts were revised, but most of the articles should have been revised. One is like this:

Received: 22 November, 2015 (Submission: November 22, 2015)

Accepted: 16 March, 2016

Published: 23 April, 2016 (officially published: April 23, 2016)

It took four months from submission to acceptance, which is the average manuscript processing time for large sub-journals of Nature.

Moreover, Xu Qiu looked through five documents, and none of them took less than three months.

Of course, if it is a sub-journal such as NC, which is not a major sub-journal of "Nature", the review speed will be faster.

Like before, he and his schoolmate each published an NC, and the review speed is relatively normal, comparable to AM and EES, about a month.

Therefore, Xu Qiu estimates that as long as he writes this "Joule" article quickly enough, it may be published faster than the previous "Natural Energy".

PS: Due to the needs of the plot, the time when the new issue appeared in the article does not exactly correspond to the reality. In reality, "Joule" was founded in 2018, and "Natural Review Materials" and "Nature·Energy" were founded in 2016.