I signed a contract for a 6-year tenure-track professorship in a European University a few weeks ago.
Recently, I received an Agreement document between me and the University, whose main objective is to specify the details of my research and my teaching at the University.
Most of the information to fill out makes sense, except the one that is about the number of publications that I plan to produce. I am not sure what to put here, and whether this will start some kind of negotiation with the University.
Even if I am urged to put a high number, I could opt to publish to just about any low-rank venue (which I would not like).
Being completely honest, if I were to set expectations for myself, it would not be in the form of a number. I tend to do good research and the publications come as a consequence of this attitude, but this number has never been a metric that I targeted.
Perhaps entering a low conservative value would be the best approach?