SCI, the abbreviation of Science Citation Index, is a citation database founded and published by institute for scientific information (ISI) 196 1. It is recognized as the most authoritative scientific and technological literature retrieval tool in the world. It contains the most important journals in the field of science and technology, which can not only be used to find the latest research results, but also provide literature citation retrieval. Most periodicals are in English.
SCI papers refer to papers published in journals included in SCI database. Because it is difficult to publish SCI papers, the number of published SCI papers and the number of high-impact papers have become important indicators to measure the academic level of researchers.
2) Why polish SCI papers?
Most SCI journals are in English, and non-native English speakers need to write papers in English to publish SCI papers. SCI journals have high academic and English requirements. Before the article is submitted for review, the language of the article will be reviewed to ensure that the English of the article meets certain requirements, so that reviewers and readers can correctly understand the content of the article.
Because the first language of non-English writers is not English, there are inevitably some language problems when writing SCI papers, and sometimes even readers can't understand the meaning of the articles correctly. It makes it difficult for SCI papers written by non-native authors to meet the language requirements of periodicals. Therefore, when non-English authors submit SCI papers, it is often difficult for them to pass the language preliminary examination of SCI journals, and the editors of the journals ask them to polish the SCI papers in their mother tongue. In addition, due to the language problem of the manuscript, even if it passes the language preliminary examination of SCI journals, articles written by non-English authors are often negatively evaluated by peer reviewers, and peer reviewers or journal editors require that SCI papers be polished in their mother tongue.
Therefore, the fundamental reason for polishing SCI papers is that non-English writers have a lot of language problems when writing SCI papers, which makes it difficult to meet the language requirements of SCI journals, so they are asked by journal editors or peer reviewers to polish SCI papers in their mother tongue.
3) What are the benefits of polishing 3)SCI papers?
Most scholars will polish SCI papers after receiving the opinions of journal editors or peer reviewers. In recent years, with the polishing of SCI papers gradually recognized by the majority of scholars, many scholars choose to polish SCI papers before submission. This is mainly due to the following reasons:
(1) Save submission time: polishing SCI papers before submission can avoid receiving negative comments on the language from journal editors after submission, successfully pass the language preliminary examination of journals, and save submission time;
(2) Reduce the difficulty of peer review experts, improve the efficiency of peer review, and improve the hit rate of manuscripts: the poor readability of articles due to language problems is an important reason for the rejection of SCI papers. Polishing SCI papers before submission and solving language problems in advance can help reviewers better understand the content of the articles, reduce the difficulty of reviewing them, save the time of reviewing them and improve the impression score of the articles, thus improving the hit rate of articles and speeding up the review process.