&gt; I know this sounds like a waste of time because you probably won&#x27;t get a paper out of it<p>It&#x27;s unfortunate that a &quot;lessons learned&quot; paper summarizing a sabbatical in industry doing customer-facing work would not be publishable. Surely it&#x27;s far more useful to other academics than most papers. It&#x27;d definitely be more broadly relevant.<p>My wife is a professor in a practical field and I&#x27;m always sad to hear what counts as a &quot;good&quot; paper or a publishable article. The big journals in these fields drive the notion of what is and isn&#x27;t legitimate research. That&#x27;s the point where what constitutes career-advancing &quot;academic output&quot; has to be changed. But I&#x27;m not enough of an insider to have any idea of how to go about doing that.