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This auto-ethnographic chapter draws attention to research publication productivity by connecting publication-related measures of success and the experiences attached to the outputs that count in evaluation and promotion of early-career scholars. Focusing on strategies and mentorship practices, the author, a plurilingual early-career scholar, presents her journey of academic writing as she strove to articulate the demands of an academic career. The author engages in self-reflection to gain a better understanding of which opportunities to pursue and the factors that are likely to add value to a scholarly publication trajectory such as mentoring, department culture, and collaboration networks. This chapter concludes that increased understanding of early-career demands is needed to unravel constructions of success in academia.
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Carciu, O.M. (2021). Juggling Early-Career Demands: Research Publication Productivity, Strategies, Practices. In: Habibie, P., Burgess, S. (eds) Scholarly Publication Trajectories of Early-career Scholars. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85784-4_2
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