Thanks for your responses bewildered and hutzy998, particularly as regards to the importance of the REF. I certainly agreed that PG articles are of limited use in terms of future employability but I think they have at least some value in getting used to the process of writing for more prestigious journals. Perhaps in that respect they have a similar value to book reviews, i.e. won't get you a job but worthwhile doing anyway as long as you don't do too many of them. I also have a couple of articles which may get published in established academic journals next year so I should have that angle covered, at least to a certain extent.

Thanks for the detailed response Huxley. I certainly think that PG journals are worth publishing in, hence why I'm having two articles published in PG journals, but was just curious as to how others in the academic community perceived them. Some people I know (fellow PhD students), have a fairly dismissive attitude towards them, but I'm glad that isn't universally the case!

Hello, I'm a second year History PhD student and was wondering what opinions people have as regards the value of getting published in PG journals? Obviously they are far less valuable than established academic journals, but are they worth publishing in at all? As it stands I'm having a couple of articles published in PG journals this year and am waiting to hear back from two academic journals whether they will publish my articles (one of the latter has yet to tell me if they want my article despite having submitted it over seven months ago!).