If the only reason you are focusing on your thesis is to get a professorship, it sounds like you are not into doing the research for the right reasons.
How about choosing research topics that seem important enough that even in the case you don’t get professorship you could say it was worth investing yourself into them?
If the only reason you are focusing on your thesis is to get a professorship, it sounds like you are not into doing the research for the right reasons.
How about choosing research topics that seem important enough that even in the case you don’t get professorship you could say it was worth investing yourself into them?
The post does not mention choosing research topics strategically, just the number and quality of contributions. I wouldn’t read too much into it.