Academic Woman Amplified

If you want to publish more, you should take on more projects, right? Wrong! You need a publication pipeline, not a funnel.   I’m getting up on my soapbox to tell you why your publications need to be in a pipeline, not a funnel! Building a publication plan from a place of fear leads you to take on every possible project, say yes to all opportunities, and focus on numbers rather than your academic mission. Friends, this approach will backfire. Let’s dig into the metaphors of pipeline and funnel, and how to approach your publishing plan to reach your goals.   Funnel vs. Pipeline: What’s the Difference? Picture a pipeline: the contents flow smoothly, and what goes in comes out the other side at the same volume it entered.    Now picture a funnel: a whole bunch of something put in the top trickles slowly out the bottom. You might dump more and more into the top, but it still trickles out the bottom at that slow rate.   Using this metaphor, you can see that taking on more and more projects for publication does not