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International Nurses Day 2021 literary contribution: At a fork in the research journey: a poem in resistance to publishing in highly ranked journals
Author(s) -
Park Claire SuYeon
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international nursing review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1466-7657
pISSN - 0020-8132
DOI - 10.1111/inr.12689
Subject(s) - publish or perish , publishing , poetry , publication , resistance (ecology) , medical journal , sociology , political science , literature , psychology , media studies , medicine , law , art , family medicine , ecology , biology
In celebration of International Nurses Day 2021 and in critique of scholars who are driven to publish as many articles as possible in highly ranked journals, a short poem is offered here. This poem has resonance for the scholarly world in terms of questioning why we keep trying to be seen as successful scholars in the eyes of others employing a publish or perish mentality rather than pursuing the true purpose of our scholarly existence. The author asks nurses, ‘Why are you doing science’?