Defining “Important” Research: The Confused Criteria of Modern Science

这篇文章提出了这样一个问题：什么样的研究才是重要的研究：

• 学术权威的研究，有很多跟风，是研究热点。只有这种热点研究才是重要的研究吗？

现代实践：

综述文章绝大多数都是期刊邀请知名专家写作，主要目的是提高期刊的SCI影响因子。不满足这个条件的自主投稿很难被录用。

Liu, Yue and Liu, Ying, Redefining Review Articles: Beyond Balance Toward Theoretical Innovation (September 01, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5434337 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5434337, Liu, Yue, Redefining Review Articles: Beyond Balance Toward Theoretical Innovation, Sep 01, 2025, yueliusd.substack.com

• 能提高SCI影响因子的文章

现代实践：

这种文章比较容易发表。纠错文章因为利益冲突，被引用率很低，期刊都不愿意发表

Liu, Yue, Conflict of Interest in Academic Publishing: A Question of Accountability in the Pursuit of Truth (September 11, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5470606 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5470606

• 热点领域

“Beyond these considerations, the importance of many of the more recent developments cannot be evaluated objectively at this time. The history of mathematics teaches us that many subjects which aroused tremendous enthusiasm and engaged the attention of the best mathematicians ultimately faded into oblivion ... Indeed one of the interesting questions that the history answers is what survives in mathematics. History makes its own and sounder evaluations.”

 --Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, Oxford University Press, 1972, ISBN 0-19-506136-5 

引申：

历史是最公正的。历史反复证明，那些在当世喧嚣尘上的东西往往是主流学者刻意炒作的糟粕，而那些被当世打压的经常是真金白银。 

Expansion:

History serves as the ultimate arbiter. It consistently reveals that what is often overemphasized by the prominent scholars of an era is often merely the intentional promotion of mediocrity, while that which is suppressed by the prevailing contemporary scholars often reveals itself to be authentic and of true value.

1. Liu, Yue, The Paradox of Academic Publishing: Why Low-Quality Research Thrives While Disruptive Innovation Struggles, Qeios, Preprint, 2025, https://doi.org/10.32388/QD8GGF

2. Liu, Yue and Liu, Ying, The Illusion of Quality Control: How Peer Review Enables Mediocrity While Suppressing Innovation in Academic Publishing (September 03, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5436920 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5436920

3. Liu, Yue, The Academic Publishing Mythology: When Quality Control Becomes Quality Obstruction (September 12, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5478626 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5478626

文章强调

• 为什么错误的研究被大量发表，而纠正这些错误的稿件投到同样的期刊则被以不重要为由拒稿

• 用本科知识解决几十年没有被发现的问题是低水平研究还是高水平研究

• 用简单方法解决问题的研究一定是低水平研究吗

由于理论瑕疵，企图解决问题的方法很复杂，而且并没有真正解决问题的三篇文章：

Z.-L. Hou, X. Gao, J. Zhang and G. Wang，A perspective on impedance matching 

and resonance absorption mechanism for electromagnetic wave absorbing，

Carbon 2024 Vol. 222 Pages 118935，DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2024.118935

S. Zhang, T. Wang, M. Gao, P. Wang, H. Pang, L. Qiao, et al. Strict proof and applicable

 range of the quarter-wavelength model for microwave absorbers

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 2020 Vol. 53 Issue 26 Pages 265004

DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/ab79da

X. Wang, Z. Du, M. Hou, Z. Ding, C. Jiang, X. Huang, et al. Approximate solution of 

impedance matching for nonmagnetic homogeneous absorbing materials

The European Physical Journal Special Topics 2022 Vol. 231 Issue 24 Pages 4213-4220

DOI: 10.1140/epjs/s11734-022-00570-1

上述问题被以下文章运用正确的本科知识用简单直接的方法解决了：

1. Ying Liu, Yi Ding, Yue Liu, Michael G. B. Drew. Unexpected Results in Microwave Absorption – Part 2:. Angular effects and the wave cancellation theory, Surfaces and Interfaces, 2023, 40, 103024

2. Ying Liu, Yue Liu, Drew M.G.B, A re-evaluation of the mechanism of microwave absorption in film  Part 3: Inverse relationship, Mater. Chem. Phys. 2022, 290, 126521.

3. Ying Liu, Michael G. B. Drew, Yue Liu, A physics investigation on impedance matching theory in microwave absorption film—Part 2: Problem Analyses, Journal of Applied Physics, 2023, 134(4), 045304, DOI: 10.1063/5.0153612

4. Yue Liu, Ying Liu, Michael G. B. Drew Review:  Recognizing problems in publications concerned with microwave absorption film and providing corrections A focused review,  Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2025, 64(7), 3635–3650

现在的问题是，上述采用复杂方法的研究和采用本科知识解决问题的研究，哪一种是更重要的研究？

• 一篇文章的重要性需要编辑和审稿人代替我们判断还是应该让历史来判断

Liu, Yue, Wu Wei Governance: A Philosophical Framework for Addressing the Academic Research Crisis and Institutional Gatekeeping (August 30, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5421094 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5421094, Liu, Yue, Wu Wei Governance: A Philosophical Framework for Addressing the Academic Research Crisis and Institutional Gatekeeping, 2025, yueliusd.substack.com

科学研究就是发现问题、分析问题、解决问题

• 科学可以歧视小问题吗

• 科学可以排斥非热点的正确理论吗

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