My math prof loved math. He pursued a B.Sc. in Mathmatics and looked for work. He could teach high school, or go back to school. He got his M.Sc in mathmatics. Looked at what he could do as a career. He could teach mathmatics at colleges, or go back to school. He got his PhD. in mathmatics from a prestigious school. He looked for a career. He could teach mathmatics at a 3rd rate University or die of hunger, homeless and chased by wolves.

He taught at my school and was a very strong proponent of not studying pure math. Comp Sci, Actuarial Sciences anything but pure math. He said math was a rich kids hobby, not a career.

Compared to biological sciences in the USA at least, 6 months is pretty short for a paper. Did you get published?

Going to conferences and presenting your research can introduce you to some new ideas which can spark creativity.

Research is a bit of a slow grind so, take your time, and take care of yourself!

Talk to your advisor.

Over the seven years of my PhD (Physics), I was first or second author on less than 5 papers (3 iirc). However, I am really happy with the quality of those few papers, and so were the reviewers on my thesis and, ultimately, my employer after I defended. Unless you want to stay in academia and become a professor, the quantity is not that important.

Have a frank conversation with your advisor. If you are out of ideas, I bet they aren't. You are a student, not an independent researcher, so the expectation should not be that you are the sole driver behind the direction of your work. As a personal anecdote, I majorly changed the direction of my thesis after about three years in because the experiments were just really not working. It led to my degree taking longer, but I was seriously lost in the wilderness of discovery until I had a series of discussions with my advisor about where we could pivot the work that I had already done.

I am not I your field, so take this as you may: I have seen two things in common across fields when it comes to prolific publishers.

1. low hanging fruit. There are papers that need to be written or have never been written simply because people see it as low hanging fruit and too easy or low effort. This issue for the field would be that people still want to reference something that says this simple idea in their paper. This means that the people who write these 'low hanging fruit' papers get cited a ridiculous amount for their simple, basic, bullshit paper.

2. collaborations. My PI (again, different field) is up there as one of the top contributing authors of the field and is easily what you would consider a prolific publisher. The has anywhere between 2-4 publications per year in high impact journals. And this isn't counting posters, presentations, or the occasional bonus authorship you get for just being around when that paper was written. She does this through constant networking with people and collaboration in projects. She is also more than happy to look at other people's long running projects and take out a slice of data and do a writeup on it. There are several projects people do that look at huge data collections, but then only analyze what they cared about and ignored the rest. Those become easy papers to write.

Maybe you can teach math?

idea: vapour-pressure deficit occuring in plantlife like trees because of difference in temperature of root to crown.

Join other researchers?

The number of papers churned depends heavily on the field and even the advisor.

If you want to get a job, that probably depends more on your advisor, their connections, and your connections.

The important thing is not how much you publish, but how much your research can profit capital, the MIC, etc.

If you just want money, then you need to get into weapons, grifts like "AI", etc.

What kind of applied math do you do? Does your advisor have any contacts with money?

Well how good is the paper? If you've solved a Millenium problem, you have it made, at least for a while. Heck, Brian Josephson got a Nobel (physics) for a 3 page paper he wrote while a graduate student. So cheer up, anything is possible.