Lancet Restaurant Gives Medical Professionals Food For Thought
A barbecue outlet in Beijing has become a favorite dining place for the capital's scientific fraternity, as Li Hongyang reports.
When Feng Shangqing published a paper in a scientific journal, she was simply hoping it would prove beneficial to her medical career. She certainly didn't imagine that the article would provide her with a discounted treat at a barbecue restaurant in Beijing.
The physician, who graduated from Fourth Military Medical University in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, was given a discount of 84 yuan ($12.67) at a barbecue restaurant that is popular with medical professionals as a result of the paper's "impact factor" - a measure of the frequency with which articles are cited in a particular year. The 84 yuan discount was a multiple of the paper's impact factor of 8.4, which is considered a good score.
