“Publish or perish.” That’s the game in academia. If you want to get tenure or advance to leadership roles, you have to write a lot of articles and get them published.
But you can’t just publish anything. The journal editors and reviewers who decide what gets published have a point of view, and it’s best not to upset their point of view too much if you want them to publish your paper. That point of view is often left-wing, but the political valence matters less than straightforward conformity with the prevailing research in the field. Employ conventional methodology, write in conventional format, use conventional terminology, that sort of thing.
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