In this increasingly competitive market for academic research, just winning a place on a well-funded and well-resourced team might be considered enough of an achievement for an aspiring researcher. In that context, getting the results of your study published in a prestigious journal in your field would be considered an icing on the cake.<\/p>\n
As a new researcher, you may be forgiven for your na\u00efvet\u00e9, but an experienced mentor should tell you that the publication of your results is now as much a deliverable for a research study as the data your methodology produces. Whether you are facing a tenure committee or a grant committee, the question of \u201cwhat have you done lately,\u201d applies as much to your visibility in your field as to the caliber of research you have conducted. If your research has a corporate backer, that expectation of visibility is even higher, such that when you meet with your corporate liaison, he or she will be looking for the acceptance letter from the relevant prestigious journal as a valuable PR piece, a potential white paper marketing collateral piece, as well as a checklist item on the long list of research deliverables.<\/p>\n