看了贵刊今年第一期摘录的“杂志本身没有等级”后,深感新闻出版署和国家科委等部门没有把杂志划分为一级杂志、二级杂志这一做法的英明,又痛感社会上某些人或胡里胡涂或有意蒙蔽别人,简单地、错误地认定中央刊物质量必高。例如,贵刊的刊名因为挂了“通讯”两个字,本人所在地的职称评定小组个别评委,硬在这两个字上做文章,要把我发表在贵刊上的文章降低评分。举个最简明的道理,如果一位一级教授在地方级杂志上登了篇文章,就此说他文章的质量低于中央级刊物上的文章,这位教授肯定会愤慨的。又例如, After reading the first edition of this year’s magazine, “There Is No Grade in the Magazine,” I deeply feel that the Press and Publication Administration and the State Science and Technology Commission have not divided the magazine into first-class magazines and second-class magazines. The wise and painful society On certain people or flagrantly or intentionally deceiving others, simply and mistakenly believe that the quality of a central publication will be high. For example, the title of your magazine is hung with the word “newsletter”, and the individual judges of the title assessment panel of my own place are hard-pressed to make a fuss about these two words. I would like to lower my rating on articles published in your magazine. To give the simplest explanation, a professor at a first level who has published an article in a local magazine and thus says that the quality of his article is less than the one in a journal at the central level certainly will be indignant. For another example,