On July 16, Professor Yu Qingliang, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Building Engineering, was invited to give a lecture on writing guidance for international high-level academic papers to teachers and students of our college in the Academic Lecture Hall of the School of Materials, Zhiyuan Building, Weishui Campus. Xiao Yue, Dean of the college, and representatives of teachers and students attended the lecture.
Drawing on his experience as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Building Engineering and a member of the editorial boards of numerous other SCI journals, Professor Yu Qingliang offered a detailed explanation of SCI papers from the perspective of an editor. He elaborated on what constitutes a satisfactory paper in the eyes of reviewers and editors, covering every part from the title onwards. In particular, he emphasized that under the premise of innovation, attention should be paid to the linguistic art in paper writing. After Professor Yu's lecture, the teachers and students present actively consulted him on the problems they encountered in the process of writing and submitting papers, conducted face-to-face communication with him, and Professor Yu answered them without reservation and put forward pertinent suggestions. Finally, Dean Xiao Yue concluded that in this exchange, Professor Yu Qingliang had shared a wealth of practical insights, and he hoped that teachers and students would carefully summarize after listening and apply these skills to their future paper writing.
The scene at the lecture
Professor Yu Qingliang holds a professorship and doctoral supervisor position at the Faculty of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He acts as the Editor-in-Chief of the SCI-indexed journal Journal of Building Engineering and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Sustainable Cement-Based Materials, Construction and Building Materials, and Scientific Reports. He has been consistently included in Stanford University's list of Top 2% Global Scientists (encompassing both lifetime and annual scientific impact) and is a Highly Cited Chinese Researcher recognized by Elsevier.
His primary research focuses on new cement materials, high-performance intelligent concrete materials, and functional ecological concrete materials. Up to now, he has filed over 10 invention patents, published 4 monographs (including book chapters) based on his research outputs, more than 180 SCI journal articles, and over 100 international conference papers. He has led more than 30 research projects, such as those sponsored by the Netherlands National Science Foundation, EU Horizon programs, national talent initiative projects, General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Sino-Dutch National Science Foundation international exchange projects, provincial key R&D plan projects, and industry-university-research cooperation projects with enterprises.
