Recently, a paper on the study of the retrogradation of cooked eggs caused a hot discussion on the whole network. This paper was published in the provincial magazine Photo Geography. Such an article that violates common sense and scientific knowledge can appear in provincial newspapers and periodicals, which shows that there must be unknown gray problems in the publication, review and proofreading of the article. As a scientific research practitioner, I think there may be the following problems.

First of all, this article must have been accepted after paying the publishing fee. People engaged in scientific research should know that there are no inexplicable expenses such as publishing fees, reviewing fees and proofreading fees for serious journals. However, some journals charge high-quality papers in the name of publishing fees, in fact, for their own economic interests, so as to ensure that journals can publish articles and collect some economic benefits. Therefore, relevant departments should introduce certain policies to increase the cost of violation.

Second, the article is only two pages long, which means that this article must have been bought through an intermediary editor. Usually, the length of a formally submitted provincial journal paper should be more than 3~4 pages, but this paper is only two pages, and the content of the paper is very unreasonable, and it is also based on scientific theory. Such an article can be published in provincial journals, indicating that the author probably found some intermediaries and spent money to buy a page.

Third, it is a gray area of the whole industry to charge commission for goods intermediary transactions. Although it is a hidden rule of scientific research industry that everyone knows it well but doesn't reveal it, this gray industrial chain has seriously affected the atmosphere of domestic scientific research academic circles and the quality of domestic journals, which is one of the reasons why the quality of China journals is far from that of international high-quality journals. Therefore, the state should rectify this gray industrial chain, severely crack down on intermediaries who accept gray interests, and carefully examine the quality of papers.