The recruitment process of Straits Hospital was much more detailed than Su Yun's description.
Publishing papers was just one of many other criteria. Even though Straits Hospital was entirely owned and funded by Americans, it was still run by the top medical manager in China.
Journals that were popular among local PhD graduates such as PLOS ONE and Scientific Reports were excluded from the list. No amount of papers published on them would earn any extra credit.
Why?
The reviewing criteria of these journals had relaxed, which made them lose their prestige. Pay-to-publish journals no longer had value.
The impact factor of PLOS ONE had fallen below 3, according to the year's latest figures.
The New England Journal of Medicine that Su Yun had mentioned… it was first on the list with an impact factor of 72.4, outdoing The Lancet which had an impact factor of 47.83.
