For early-career researchers, publishing is often seen as the key to securing jobs, grants, and promotions. Some argue that building a strong track record requires producing as many papers as possible. Others believe that a few high-quality publications in reputable journals carry more weight than many minor outputs.
What matters more at the start of an academic career — quantity or quality of publications?
For the progress of science, quality is obviously better then quantity. Unfortunately, some or even many many of those who decide about financing research and about careers of researchers put emphasis on metrics like numbers of publications and citations and on derived values like impact factors, h-index etc. This attitude is doing harm to science. See also the following discussions:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Quantity_vs_Quality/1
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_quantity_of_research_scientific_output_associated_with_its_quality/1
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_maintain_both_quality_and_quantity_of_a_research_article/1
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_are_the_consequences_of_publish_or_perish_culture_in_academia/1
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Petition_Stop_Tracking_Science/1
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Academic_corruption_in_publications
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Your_opinion_about_the_following_link/1
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_do_you_think_about_scientific_production_evaluation_indices_such_as_those_of_Hirsch_h_or_Google_Scholar_i10_or_others/1
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Research_Publications_Impact_factor_H-Index_I-Index_Is_these_words_becoming_root_cause_for_stress_nowadays_rather_than_Passionate/1
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_do_bibliometric_studies_get_so_much_attention_in_todays_world_of_academia/1
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