Hmmm
"Of an international standard" doesn't mean that you have to be publishing. I think that there's something to be said for concentrating on the PhD and looking at it as a source of papers towards the end. You certainly don't want to find that large chuncks of your thesis are inadmissable for examination because they've been published elsewhere.

Publishing while a student is good if you can, but it's not the whole story. Conferences, as I said, are often a good way to gague yourself, and, if you're responding to a specific CFP, you might be able to exploit an angle different from your PhD work. (That's how I got my first book chapter, way back when.) But the price you pay is distraction from your thesis for a while.

Nor is it necessarily true that you won't publish early in your lectureship. I've published more in the last couple of years as a relative newbie than I did before - but, again, that might have something to do with being in a good department. It gives you zip and incentive...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 11:00, Reply)