The 4 RUs require submission or acceptance (depending on the level of study) of a citation-indexed journal paper for the completion of postgraduate degree (by research) thus the act of publishing papers does exist. The problem is to make it a "culture" as most researchers (postgraduate and staff) prefer to submit papers to 'pay and publish' type of journals due to the difficulty of getting into citation-indexed journals. It doesn't help that most universities KPI DOES NOT state the requirement for publications ONLY in citation-indexed journals. I'm not sure how it works in Azarimy's field but in my department it sure doesn't feel like "once u're in, u're in" as even the best researcher around here has only a 50% success rate and the rest of us hovering below or just above 10% which of course further encourage the "pay and publish" culture.