Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Although the impact factor is increasing rapidly, most of the impact factors are achieved through letter publications, and it is easier to be accepted by submitting in letter format. However, it is important to remind everyone that a small number of institutions have regulations that letters (excluding Nature's letters) are not considered articles and cannot be used for promotion or awards. Considering this trend, the publication volume of letters in domestic journals is very high, leading to internal competition, and only raising assessment standards. I believe that this trend will continue to spread in the future. Those who want to go far in scientific research should carefully consider submitting letters, including letters from Cell Research, as they may no longer be considered articles in the future.

I don't understand why there are so many sour grape mentality people who can't stand to see domestic journals improve. Is mindlessly criticizing interesting? If you have the ability, publish an article there and then speak. Anyway, if our papers are not accepted by top-tier journals or major journals, we will consider submitting them here, but it is also difficult to get accepted. Many papers that were rejected by STTT were accepted by NC, and there are quite a few accepted by Cell Reports. At the very least, this proves that STTT has a higher difficulty level for manuscript submission compared to regular journals.