As we all know, the author of the paper is the most important to a paper.If anything goes wrong, the first thing to look for is the correspondent.So how to be a qualified correspondent?
1. For a research group, the correspondent is usually a mentor.The idea of an article may come primarily from a mentor.Some correspondents are responsible for writing papers, others are responsible for completing the first draft of the paper, and the instructors carefully revise it.In conclusion, the correspondent is well aware of the article and is responsible for answering questions from journal editors.
2. Before submitting a paper, the correspondent sends an e-mail to all Co-authors for advice, and only when everyone is OK.This is a very serious question.Here's an example. A friend of mine in Australia had a Ph. D. student who sent an English abstract to a conference (the correspondent was a mentor).As the deadline approached, they did not send the abstract to me and other co-authors beforehand. After all, it was a conference paper abstract, not a journal paper, and it should not be too late to inform all co-authors.A few days later, however, the conference team sent a letter to all the co-authors, and the digest was received.At the same time, one of the co-authors, who is also my buddy's big boss (and the student's assistant mentor), politely sent a letter to my buddy asking, what's the matter with this article?He had not previously received any information about the summary.My friend was very embarrassed, so he called the students to ask them what was going on, criticized the education, and withdrew the abstract immediately the abstract.What does this example illustrate?The first responsibility is the tutor and the correspondent.Besides, it is dangerous for students to use their instructor's e-mail instead of their instructor's e-mail as their correspondence author.In the event of a paper problem, the editor-in-chief of the journal will seek a mentor, not a student, for the first time.Any explanation of this sort would be futile and blacker and blacker.
3. Is it okay to add an author to the paper at the revision stage or after receiving it?In principle, it is possible, but the correspondent should explain to the editor-in-chief why he should add one more author.Sometimes, after adding one more author, the editor-in-chief retries the article as a new one.To be honest, this will leave a bad impression on the editor-in-chief.In addition, after the paper is submitted, the random change of co-authors order is also very unprofessional practice, will be considered very lax, some papers will be rejected.
4. It is best to use the university's official email for your paper submission.If you use 126, 163 or even qq mailbox, it is not impossible in principle, but it will appear unprofessional.Because the university's official mailbox is unique and trustworthy.The editor-in-chief can't decide whether the correspondent is himself or not.
5. The English writing problem of the thesis.As a correspondence author must strictly check, but many good jobs are dead in the language expression, very regrettable.Some friends may be naive to think that as long as the content of the paper is good, the language problem can be left to the editor, which is very foolish idea.Think of an editor who has to deal with dozens or more articles every day. If you don't understand English, you'll be rejected every minute.In addition, as a correspondence writer, the teacher's poor English will be despised.Once, a senior editor-in-chief of a journal asked me, "Do you Chinese contributions, before submitting, professors will seriously correct them?"This article, the content is not bad, but English is too bad!Is this a modified thesis by the professor?I've probably scanned the paper, and English is really full of holes.The old man kept shaking his head.。。
6. I also heard from a friend that a foreigner in their department often receives letters from graduate students in China to publish papers with him as a co-author.At first, the foreigner was happy and felt that his influence was not small, but considering that the student's work was not his field of study and had no contribution, he declined.But it didn't take long for the student to send a letter asking the foreigner to change his English.The foreigner considered it over and over again, but refused.But the student wrote a letter asking foreigners to co-authors and told the truth: the graduation thesis was too stressful, put up a foreigner, help revise it, and with the help of foreigners' reputation, it might be easier to publish it.Foreigners see this third letter more confused, find my brother to understand the situation, you Chinese students this is what?My buddy's doing just like he's doing his job. He's got nothing to say.Finally, my buddy told me, some students are just driving crazy, don't face!
7. Finally, as a correspondence author, position yourself in responding to the reviewer's comments.I have found that many teachers and students in China are too humble in responding to the opinions of reviewers.For example, the reviewer gave an opinion, right or wrong, and first came an I am sorry. This sorry is totally unnecessary. What is there to be sorry about?As a correspondent, it is necessary to give sufficient respect to the reviewer's opinions, but it is not necessary to lower yourself too low, but to respond to the reviewer's positive and negative questions in an equal manner.
8. That is all we can think of now, and we will continue to supplement the deficiencies.