史蒂夫·毛，本科毕业于北京大学，再田纳西大学西南医学中心获得细胞生物学博士学位。后赴冷泉港实验室和哈佛大学从事博士后工作，分别将研究重点放在基因组组织和单细胞测序技术上。他曾《Cell》期刊工作五年，先后担任助理编辑、副编辑和高级科学编辑。现为《科学》杂志分子生物学、生物技术和合成生物学的高级编辑，职责范围包括DNA生物学、RNA生物学、转录和表观遗传学、核酸和染色质生物学、核糖体生物学、合成生物学和生物技术开发。

After graduated from Peking University, Dr. Steve Mao obtained a Ph.D. in Cell Biology from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. As a postdoctoral fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Harvard University, he focused his research on genome organization and single cell sequencing technologies, respectively. He worked as an Assistant, Associate, and Senior Scientific Editor in Cell for about five years before joining Science as a Senior Editor of molecular biology, biotechnology and synthetic biology. His areas of responsibility include DNA biology, RNA biology, transcription and epigenetics, nuclear and chromatin biology, ribosome biology, synthetic biology, and biotechnology development.

从外部看，在具有高影响力的普通科学期刊上发表论文似乎是一个神秘的过程。对《科学》期刊的编辑流程的理解可以帮助您稍微揭开谜底，并有助于理解什么才能使一篇优秀的论文成为具有重大影响力的期刊论文。我将讨论《科学》的一些内部工作机制，并提供一些见解，以帮助生物领域师生准备和评估自己的文章，以便在高影响力的科学出版物中成功发表。

From the outside, publication in high-impact general-science journals can seem like a mysterious process. A general understanding of the procedures and practices at Science can help unravel the mystery a bit, and contribute to an understanding of what makes a great paper a high-impact-journal paper. In particular, while many researchers strive to publish in these journals because of their high impacts, they are fundamentally general-science journals, and understanding this can help authors assess which aspects of their own work will be most successful in such outlets. I’ll discuss some of the inner workings of Science and provide insight for helping authors prepare and assess their own work for consideration in high-impact general-science publications.