After teaching and doing research, one of the important KPI in. the world of academia is to publish. To carry out research and produce publications, or other research outputs such as intellectual properties, in line with the key performance indicators set earlier before January each year, is what makes my ‘world’ goes around.
Publish or perish” is an aphorism describing the pressure to publish academic work in order to succeed in an academic career. The value of published work is often determined by the prestige of the academic journal it is published in. – Wikipedia