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<p>Did you even read his original question? Sure that is great on a graduate school application, but that doesn’t directly help a bit in deciding the things the OP is trying to decide.</p>
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<p>Quite the opposite as a graduate student. Funding is usually taken care of. Getting published still takes often years and a ton of work. Note: I am not counting conference papers because those are a cakewalk to publish and are not peer reviewed. If you decide to go into academia they are of minimal value compared to journal articles as well.</p>