I wrote a blog post for Nature’s Behavioural and Social Sciences Blog addressing the questions of ‘is it publish or perish for PhD students?’
The ‘publish or perish’ mindset creates a false dichotomy of success for doctoral students. In my experience as a doctoral student in Australia I often heard that my success depended on ‘getting published’, but I have learnt that the process of publishing is also a valuable means of success. Read more.