Thank you Sir, I should not use anecdotes, impressions, or stories to provide suggestions, especially for knowledge that can be verified in a genuine and handy manner.

in Modern Chinese it’s quite different: 大 has two different pronunciations: dah (similar to た) means big/high in level/scale, while dai means grand/great but the usage is much narrower, as far as I know only in 大夫, which means doctor.

I can provide a correction on my answer, based on my knowledge: In Japanese 大 have at least two pronounciations: だい(similar to tye-ii) is only for the big/high in level/scale, while たい (similar to dah-ii) is for grand

Lol I should check the dictionary first, sorry for the mistake I made, I think it’s better not withdrawing my answer so that others can read it as a full story😵‍💫I really appreciate it because it’s been years that I have such a wrong interpretation.

It’s written as 太君, not 大君. All two characters are from the Chinese yet pronounced differently in Japanese. 太 has many meanings, such as “grand”, while 大 is a similar character, with slightly different meanings, including “big”.

My bad, they are …, another group change their method name from the one in the arxiv to a new one when it’s finally published in Nature Communications and my labmate told me it’s because of Nature’s policy! Thank you Sir, I will upload my manuscript next week then~

In China the government invests heavily in academics but lacks an effective way to assess results, so publications become the easiest metric. Open-access journals are seen as “less valuable” intentionally than traditional ones dominated by established networks of the “big names”

I agree, but providing more context: as the avg acceptance period for some elite journals is around one year and not many students consider it worth the risk of ending up nothing, unless they believe their paper deserves a better place, not to mention the whole family of the PI as coauthors…

I wish I could have this as an option for me, so that before my paper is published I can have more citations, oh I just realized that Nature got its own platform for papers under reviews and I found mine being posted there, but some of the equations got messy and it’s not as popular as BioArxiv…

Some of the Nature’s journals require you not posting on even bioRxiv, and I have asked my advisor if I can do this if not submit to Nature Springer Journals and he rejected it …

I did that … just because this is all I can have in my CV currently after six months waiting without any update from the reviewers. The courage for a PhD student risking end up nothing after 4 years studying should be rewarded in some form 😵

The same style as the Oxford reading tree series