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Boosting Your Early Scientific Impact Metrics

Building your academic profile as soon as possible is crucial for those pursuing an academic career. Because there are substantial benefits to joining the party early. I liken this to the concept of compound interest. When you publish something, it will eventually be cited by someone else (and also by yourself). The higher this metric goes up, the more likely it will be published or cited by someone else. Basically, the longer you wait, the longer a paper is out there, the higher the likelihood that it will get cited. That's the simple math behind it.

Can you publish parts of the dissertation as a journal paper?

For this post, I was asked to answer the question, whether one can publish parts of the PhD thesis (dissertation) in a journal publication. The answer is yes, I'm quite clear about that. But there's a very important consideration to keep in mind. That is, can you submit it before or after you have submitted your thesis?