In fact, we’ve all heard the “publish or perish” quote when it comes to academia. There is also a lot of stress among professors who cannot keep up with the need to publish solid research papers quickly, while continuing to teach their various classes. Not only that, but your research papers must be somewhat innovative and at the forefront of your area of expertise in that scientific niche.
Some professors get very good at it, publishing documents, because they use a specific format, and they have the help of graduate students, and they can pull those documents out effortlessly. Sometimes it surprises me. But, for me, they are very time consuming and editing is tedious and slow. Now of course I’m not an academic, not a scientific researcher, although I do run a think tank and so I’m constantly interacting and interacting with academia even though I have a slight disdain for having left school. to run my company in my 20s.
There are many students who would love to study science, whether it be pseudoscience, social science, or hard science. Some choose not to stay in academia or become professors because they are intimidated by the stress of constantly having to publish scientific papers and write research papers. In many ways, writing research papers and staying in the flow of production is as much an art as it is a science. Those who do well at this will eventually go on to become full professors and enjoy well-paid, successful, and rewarding careers as academic professors, who don’t like the quote says; will perish
Over the years, I have met many researchers who have been quite prolific and have written over 100 research papers, often writing them with their graduate students and dutifully signing their name to the paper as Principal Investigator or Scientist. This is one way to do it, and maybe academic students do all the work, along with all the editing and formatting, to make sure it’s exactly right by academic standards, or at the request of any scientific journal or academic conference. they are showing up. It sure helps if someone else can do most of the tedious work, and the academic professor can focus on their specific area or niche of science.
Best of all, if they become recognized leaders in the field and don’t start too many wars, they will slip through the peer review process very easily and quickly as the most authoritative source on the subject. If you plan to become a lifelong scholar in the encapsulated world of higher education, perhaps you should consider all of this and not be intimidated by the large buildings or hoops one must go through to keep up with the flow of the publish-or-perish world. . . Please consider all this and think about it.
