This may be more history than classics - but there's a fair bit of data that departments like to hire fresh PhDs rather than folks out in the field for a while. So if you want a publication to help you land a job, it's got to be done before the first round of the job market.
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For instance, here's the AHA's chart of how far most assistant professors are from their PhD when they are hired: (They note that the six+ are mostly bouncing from one TT job to another)pic.twitter.com/vQQvJW3v4r
From my perspective, the real problem here is the 'cult of promise' among hiring committees who look for fresh PhDs with 'promise' over established scholars stuck in adjunct land for a few years.
But then I say this as someone trapped in adjunct land for two years, so 
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Actually, that's not quite accurate. The realm problem is the pillaging of the humanities such that there are so few jobs, which in turn I think actually leads to the 'cult of promise.'
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Because when you've only got one search every blue moon, everyone wants to get their wishlist in. And the new scholar can be everything to everyone. Someone whose been teaching a few years is a known quantity, which means telling someone they're not getting their wishlist.
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Publication won't work without luck + timing + networking + magic . Sad yet true story
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