Editors of foreign journals would never have imagined that many in Huaxia Country are also troubled by the practice of paper padding. They even constantly update various review rules just to curb this trend.
Similarly, foreign reviewers simply cannot understand the urgent sense of "now or never" experienced by these domestic material scientists.
Why not seize the opportunity to pad the resume with a few more papers? In the future, when material science papers could be generated by machines, who would still be able to publish them?
Therefore, many people abroad are still baffling over whether such miraculous applications truly exist.
This is actually understandable, as humanity has always been like this.
Every major leap in science has appeared indistinguishable from magic to the people of its time.
Before the invention of the electric light, who could have imagined brightness without flame?
