Cooling publication fever in under-represented graduate students

Abstract

Graduate students suffer from publication fever, the all-encompassing feeling that they need to publish at all costs, argues Michel Landgrave. This single-minded focus puts them at risk of exploitation and increases hostility among peers. But great mentorship offers a way out.

End bullying and harassment in academia

“…In a Correspondence in this month's issue, Täuber and Mahmoudi 1 describe why researchers may resort to bullying and harassment, and how -instead of penalizing this behaviour -the prevailing culture in academia rewards it and enables perpetrators to thrive. We have also heard from other voices in our pages that there is a significant intersection between known targets of bias and discrimination, and targets of bullying 2,3 . In the absence of support structures, junior academics, women in male-dominated fields and members of under-represented and minoritized groups 2,3 are disproportionately exposed to bullying and harassment.…”

“…We have also heard from other voices in our pages that there is a significant intersection between known targets of bias and discrimination, and targets of bullying 2,3 . In the absence of support structures, junior academics, women in male-dominated fields and members of under-represented and minoritized groups 2,3 are disproportionately exposed to bullying and harassment.…”

CMO No. 15, S. 2019: Graduate Students, Are You Ready for This?

“…When under pressure to publish, graduate students may hesitate to investigate tough topics or highly specialized local concerns that are less likely to be approved for publication (Jordão, 2019). Landgrave (2019) additionally explains that students' single-minded concentration on publishing at any cost exposes them to exploitation. One form of exploitation could be of students falling prey to predatory journals or publishers due to the proverbial '"publish-or-perish" nature of graduate school with respect to the new CHED Memorandum Order.…”

How Can We Improve Graduate Training for Undocumented Students? Ethnic and Nativity-Based Inequities in Political Science Graduate Education

“…5 I focused on the top 50 programs because they disproportionally place their graduate students (Oprisko 2012;Schmidt and Chingos 2007) and produce a disproportionate amount of the discipline's peerreviewed publications (McCormick and Bernick 1982). As publishing pressures continue to increase among graduate students (Landgrave 2019), the top programs play a vital role in graduate-education training. Of the universities with a top 50 political science program, 34% have an undocumented student center, disproportionally located on the West Coast (87.50%).…”