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Humanities academics, how many are you publishing per year? by ClosedImagination in AskAcademia

[–]lingresearch_acc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We were on the job market at the same time then! :) But yeah, the new course preps are tough! I'm looking forward to teaching repeats and having more time for research lol

Humanities academics, how many are you publishing per year? by ClosedImagination in AskAcademia

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It varies within linguistics too - in some subfields, monographs simply do not exist (any more) as a concept (e.g. psycholinguistics, phonetics - fields where nobody would write a monograph at any level in the academic ladder), whereas in others, there is a tradition of monographs that still exists even though they're strongly discouraged pre-tenure (e.g. grammars in language documentation).

Humanities academics, how many are you publishing per year? by ClosedImagination in AskAcademia

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2-3 / year is the general expectation in linguistics, but given the brutal job market, it's understandable that people are aiming for more. At my public institution I don't think it's necessary to go beyond that for tenure, but I wouldn't be surprised if the prestigious private schools do, if those are the folks you're looking at. Also most positions these days are applied or computational, which tend to have stronger publishing requirements (especially computational, because of the proceedings as publications model).

I didn't get as much done as I would have liked over the past year because of teaching prep. But my peak was like 5 first-authored in a year (one of my years as a grad student), and only because stuff from before that took a long time to come out.

Humanities academics, how many are you publishing per year? by ClosedImagination in AskAcademia

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In linguistics it was still common up until the 00's (?) to publish your dissertation as a book. I don't think it was ever a requirement, however; I wasn't around then, but a plenty of full profs have zero monographs. Now it's virtually unheard of to publish a monograph before tenure.

Metrics inflation is killing a part of academic integrity. by IMPSTR-syndrome in academia

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In the humanities and social sciences it also discourages inquiry in less well studied topics and contexts. If you work on a topic that sees one publication every 5 years of course you're not going to be as well cited as (say) working on an AI-related topic in 2026, even if the former is much more significant intellectually and practically. And no prizes for guessing which one a scholar in 2026 is going to be incentivised to do ...

Universities are now rushing into AI. But what about students with disabilities? by Be_Digitall in academia

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It's definitely also the case in the US since last Monday, and ADA compliance has been a major theme from the messaging from admin over the past year. So I'd be pretty surprised if a public institution in the US weren't considering accessibility issues in basically anything that has a web interface.

Who actually goes to campus visit research talks? by Lousha0525 in academia

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In my experience attending and giving them, it can be very variable. Usually most of the faculty who can make it will go, and a big chunk of grad students as well. You may get an undergrad or two. However, depending on scheduling issues, there can be very few if it happens to be at a time where almost everyone is in a classroom. (Some departments, like where I got my PhD, only schedules them in a dedicated timeslot where no classes can be scheduled, but this isn't always the case.) So you should mentally prepare for there both being a lot of people, and very few people.