Publish or perish, unfortunately. If you lack the pubs, you won't get tenure. If you don't get tenure, you're shown the door. Sometimes research is actually

Publish or perish, unfortunately. If you lack the pubs, you won't get tenure. If you don't get tenure, you're shown the door. Sometimes research is actually not well understood and not published, but most of the time if it's not accepted to more mainline publications (and there are many non-predatory venues that are "easy publications") it's probably garbage. I get emails asking me to submit to bizarro conferences in strange places now and again. I think they scraped my info off publications from other areas, but I'm not sure. Either way it's pretty incredible what's going on here.