I often see on the science website that some university teachers often worry about the two important tasks of Recruiting Graduate Students and publishing academic papers. They are always distressed that they can't recruit ideal postgraduates, or "stand up" during the pre recruitment of postgraduates. Some people do not look for reasons from themselves and blindly blame others. In this way, it is difficult to recruit satisfactory students year after year, forming a negative "Matthew effect" of graduate enrollment. For publishing academic papers, some people have insufficient skills in important links such as scientific research topic selection and research, experiment or calculation scheme design, achievement summary, analysis and discussion, and paper writing, which makes it difficult to produce high-quality academic papers. The main reason is the lack of high-quality academic experience. Such scholars may have published several papers under the "hand-in-hand" guidance of their tutors or relying on their tutors' academic reputation during their postgraduates, and obtained relevant positions accordingly. However, they are not very familiar with the "routine" of publishing academic papers, so they often fall into the "dead cycle" of publishing academic papers. This situation belongs to the negative "Matthew effect" of publishing academic papers. If our young scholars do not try to find the root cause of the negative Matthew effect of the "two tasks", this negative impact will continue to occur and affect their essential work and quality of life. Therefore, I would like to talk about this topic.

Recently, a university professor told me that his graduate enrollment is in short supply. At present, professors mainly recruit high-quality examination free students of their own major (I don't fully agree with this approach). Because the professor's study and scientific research experience and achievements are listed in detail on his home page, students can have a glance at the professor's academic information. Unlike some professors, the content of their personal home page is too simple for some reason, and it is difficult for students to obtain valuable information from the professor's home page. At the same time, this professor The professor also undertakes several class hours of classroom teaching tasks every year, including undergraduate professional courses, postgraduate and international students. Recently, he also won the title of excellent head teacher of the school. In this way, students can fully understand the situation of the professor's "teaching and educating people" and make their own judgment on the teacher's ability level. Students involved in a lot of circles, especially their high school students and graduate students admitted to various universities. They acted as "voluntary propagandists" for professors. According to this, some students from overseas and domestic famous universities (undergraduates choose master's degree and postgraduates choose doctor's degree) take the initiative to contact the professor. In this way, the professor has a lot of room to choose postgraduates. For example, the two doctoral students recently recruited by the professor are postgraduates from the United States and Australia respectively. Good scientific research experience and serious and responsible teaching attitude have laid a foundation for the cultivation of university professors The "material basis" of postgraduates is the positive "Matthew effect" of a university professor recruiting postgraduates. Therefore, our university teachers first need to carefully examine themselves, strive to strengthen themselves and seriously serve undergraduate teaching, so that high-quality graduate candidates will naturally invest in your door. This situation is a bit equivalent to the "market economy" of cultivating graduate students. Students make their own choices with their feet. You can't help it.

When it comes to the "Matthew effect" of academic papers, it is naturally closely related to the author's scientific research process and training quality. I once said in the article "postgraduates should pay attention to the process of scientific research": "if you don't pay attention to the training of scientific research process at the graduate stage, but are eager for quick success and instant benefits, and publish several painless papers for graduation needs, your scientific research will not be sustainable". Therefore, even if you take part in the work, the training of this scientific research process still needs to be seriously compensated and constantly cultivated. The "routine" of publishing academic papers I pointed out here does not mean opportunism, let alone academic misconduct. Instead, it warns the students who are studying in the process of graduate students to pay attention to "academic cultivation". "Academic practice" mainly refers to the process of scientific research, which has a strict logical relationship with the publication of academic papers. Taking the above professor as an example, he experienced five years of strict scientific training during his doctoral study. Only one year before graduation did the manuscripts of two papers representing the achievements of the doctoral degree level be accepted by an international professional mainstream journal. According to the regulations of the University, the doctoral thesis can be submitted for external review, and he has the ability to apply for a post doctoral research post in a global academic institution. He achieved his wish to obtain a post doctoral research post in a famous European University, and completed the defense of his doctoral dissertation through video in this university. In fact, during his second round of postdoctoral work at MIT in the United States, the professor couldn't stop facing the rich and diverse courses arranged by the educational administration department of the world's top famous university, and focused his time and energy on learning these "Courses", Especially some courses or lectures to improve the ability of scientific and technological innovation (commonly known as scientific chicken soup). Therefore, he did not publish an academic paper during the whole postdoctoral research period of MIT (MIT also has no requirements for outbound papers). Then, many high-level professional academic papers were published in the same year after the outbound. These fully show that with high-quality academic experience, publishing academic papers will be natural and there will be a positive "Matthew effect". Our research and development of existing scholars can publish academic papers in good academic journals every year (for example, good case results of geoscience or research results that find some new clues) are mainly because these scholars pay attention to sharing high-level tutors, high-quality academic resources and atmosphere of the research group during their postgraduates, especially in the doctoral and postdoctoral research stages, and practice high-level scientific research process. These scholars have gradually developed a good habit of not being impetuous and not eager to work At the same time, it can withstand the continuous "blow" on the academic road, such as the continuous rejection of submitted papers and application projects and the assessment pressure of the unit. If you don't have a good attitude and cultivation, these hard experiences will affect your health and quality of work and life, and bring some undesirable consequences.