"We've taken over the front page!" Lu Chengen said.
"'Cell'! Three papers in a row!" Lou Jinghui cried out excitedly.
Thunderous applause erupted. Everyone was so excited they could barely control themselves. Many of their names had appeared in a top journal for the first time. Even if they ranked near the end, it was still a top journal no matter how you looked at it!
Ji Tianhe was the most excited of all, his eyes turning red. His old colleagues were flushed with excitement too. After being exploited by Tan Xi for so long, this was the first time they had experienced their boss's favor. In truth, the work they had done was insignificant when averaged out, but Song He had still generously included every one of them on the author list!
"Hey, I thought it was something serious." Song He smiled calmly. "We'll celebrate everything together once the project is finished. Get back to work, get back to work!"
He had already received an email from the editors of "Cell" yesterday. They said they had urgently reviewed his papers, and all the editors had agreed that the papers were highly significant. As a special exception, they had been inserted into the queue and published in the latest issue.
When Song He received the email, he had actually been extremely excited.
For ordinary scholars, top journals were an unattainable presence. If being a sycophant could get a paper published in a top journal, countless ordinary scholars would probably obediently put dog collars around their own necks.
But for top scholars, the relationship was reversed. To compete with one another, top journals would scramble for papers by leading scholars and open the green light in all sorts of ways. For instance, some individual results from leading scholars were actually mediocre,