Publish or Perish? An Analysis of the Internal Mechanism Driving Academic Productivity of Graduate Students

Abstract

The publication of graduate students' academic papers is the externalized result of the embodiment and expression of graduate students' research productivity and academic ability, and the driving mechanism of graduate students' academic productivity has been distorted in the reality of the academic evaluation system that emphasizes too much on the publication of papers. Therefore, it is necessary to make clear the dilemmas of the three aspects of the demand side, the process side, and the supply side of the production of knowledge, academic creation and publication of papers, so as to truly optimize the development of the graduate students' academic productivity through the reform and optimization of academic evaluation. Evaluation, strengthening innovation and quality leadership and building new-quality productivity mechanisms to effectively drive the endogenous and high-quality development of graduate students' academic productivity.