You are right Frank Onderi Masese , it is becoming common now, and PhD candidates are encouraged to publish before examination of thesis, however, instead of rushing and being under pressure to publish with journals with low impact, it is much better to focus and put up a high quality and novel research that will qualify for acceptance in notable and high impact factor journals at the end of the day.

Indeed, Universities are more focused and implement the policies (Phd with Pub) globally, most of the Universities have set the standards for doctorate students to publishing two publications in high impact factors journal (Q1-Q4) SSCI/SCI. However, Supervisor also playing a key role in the quality of research including the Thesis and Publication of his/her supervisee.

In fact, quality of article is much more important than number. A new creative idea or result is more beneficial to scientific progress than many low value papers! .Thanks for the question.

You are right Frank Onderi Masese , it is becoming common now, and PhD candidates are encouraged to publish before examination of thesis, however, instead of rushing and being under pressure to publish with journals with low impact, it is much better to focus and put up a high quality and novel research that will qualify for acceptance in notable and high impact factor journals at the end of the day.

First, the benefit to the supervisor, secondly, the researcher learns to publish, especially the beginning researcher