[quote]Postgraduate journals are worth publishing in because they put you in front of your peers and obviously being published looks good on your CV. When submitting articles to more prestigious journals in the future the editors will see that you already have a publishing history.quote]

I would also suggest that this is a rather naïve comment. 'putting you in front of your peers' No because whilst peers may not have any papers they may be working on major journals and thus trump you (unless you are also developing major journals yourself). If your peers are not doing anything and you are publishing in a PG journal you may be you are 'putting yourself ahead of your peers' however for reasons stated earlier PG publications are worthless. One the question of 'future editors will see that you have already have a publishing history' this is false because editors do not care about this, I never published anything but went straight to a top journal, so long as the research article is great then everything is fine.

Hi, personally I would stay away from publishing in PG journals. I say this because of several things. Firstly, there is no reason why you should think publishing in these journals in the first place as one should be aiming for mainstream academic journals (you need to be aspirational!) It is quite possible that your submission to a PG history journal could very well get a major review with a major history journal (and one that is REFable) so in one sense one is selling one's research short and if a good deal of your research is within these publications you are going to have trouble further down the line with finding new material for the mainstream journals. Second factor is the REF factor. PG journals would not be worthy for consideration for REF and would have completely no value on a CV at all, nothing. Tbh I am snobbish about seeing people listing PG publications (never happens in geography because there are not really any), only because I think you are wasting your time and research for the above reasons. Invest time and effort into working up excellent REFable articles. These take time, I worked one up for 1 year in my 2/3rd year and doing another one now for the past 6 months.