“Publish or perish” is the infamous mantra of those intrepid
scholars who work at research universities and many prestigious Liberal Arts
& Sciences colleges dotting the map of the world. The need to demonstrate regular output is perhaps nowhere more
stressed (hence, stress) than in the United States. As if the declining number of tenure positions (amid increasing reliance on adjuncts, not coincidentally) at colleges and universities in the U.S. were not enough of a challenge for the newly-minted doctors aspiring to the intellectual freedom that goes with the protection of tenure, that the young scholars are increasingly being subjected to an "assembly-line" process wherein faculty administrators treat their junior colleagues' published journal articles like chocolates on a conveyer belt puts scholarship at odds with itself and thus is utterly self-defeating from the standpoint of society gaining new knowledge.
The full essay is at "Business Culture Forming Higher Education"
