Comment on University of Pristina Rector under Fire for Publishing in Predatory Journals by Jill M

I do not know what field RMS is in. However, in most areas of biology in the US of which I am aware, you won’t even get considered for an interview for a tenure-track assistant professor job at a RO1 research university if you don’t have a first author publication in Nature, Science or Cell. This has gone beyond publish-or-perish, for reasons that Pesante notes below.
Unfortunately, if an Academic career is what you want out of life, these are the ground rules.