In fact, we’ve all heard the quote “publish or perish” when it comes to academia. There is also a lot of stress among professors who cannot keep up with the need to publish research papers robustly and 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 really good at that, publishing papers, because they use a specific format, and they have the help of graduate students, and they can get those papers out effortlessly. Sometimes it surprises me. But, for me, they are very time consuming and editing is tedious and time consuming. Now of course I am not an academic or a scientific researcher although I do run a think tank and so I am constantly interacting and interacting with academia even though I feel a slight disdain for having left school to running my company in my 20s.
There are many students who would love to study science, be it 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 doesn’t like the quote says; will perish.
Over the years, I have met many researchers who were quite prolific and wrote 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 of doing it, and perhaps the academic students do all the work, along with all the editing and formatting, to make sure it is exactly correct 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 teacher 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 grand buildings or the hoops one must jump through to stay in the flow of the world of publish or perish. . . Please consider all this and think about it.
