Everyone wants to get published in high-impact journals. That’s not a secret. What is a secret, apparently, is how badly the obsession with journal ratings distorts the research that actually gets written. A 2026 paper by Brooks & Farkas, "Chasing Ratings, Losing Impact: The Effects of Journal Lists on Publication Patterns in Business and Management,"…
Turning your thesis into journal articles is one of those things everyone tells you to do and almost nobody tells you how to do. You finish your dissertation, you’re exhausted, and then someone cheerfully says, "You should publish that." Great. Wonderful. Where do you even begin? The honest answer is that most postgraduate students sit…
Turning your thesis into journal articles feels, at first glance, like doing the whole thing again but smaller. It isn’t. The research is done. The thinking is done. What you’re actually doing now is repackaging something dense and sprawling into something sharp and publishable. That distinction matters enormously, because it changes what you’re looking for…
Turning your thesis into journal articles is one of the most valuable things you can do after submission, and also one of the most misunderstood. Most postgrads assume the hard work is over once they’ve defended. In reality, the thesis is the quarry, not the sculpture. The publishable work is still inside it, waiting to…
