diff --git a/impc_etl/jobs/load/impc_kg/publications_mapper.py b/impc_etl/jobs/load/impc_kg/publications_mapper.py
index edcc553f..c4c8630d 100644
--- a/impc_etl/jobs/load/impc_kg/publications_mapper.py
+++ b/impc_etl/jobs/load/impc_kg/publications_mapper.py
@@ -1,81 +1,76 @@
-import luigi
-from impc_etl.jobs.load.impc_bulk_api.impc_api_mapper import to_camel_case
-from luigi.contrib.spark import PySparkTask
-from pyspark import SparkContext
-from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
-from pyspark.sql.functions import col
+"""
+Module to generate the publications data as JSON for the KG.
+"""
+import logging
+import textwrap
 
-from impc_etl.jobs.load.impc_kg.impc_kg_helper import add_unique_id, map_unique_ids
-from impc_etl.workflow.config import ImpcConfig
+from airflow.sdk import Variable, asset
 
+from impc_etl.utils.airflow import create_input_asset, create_output_asset
+from impc_etl.utils.spark import with_spark_publications_mongo_session
 
-class ImpcKgPublicationsMapper(PySparkTask):
-    """
-    PySpark Task class to parse GenTar Product report data.
-    """
+task_logger = logging.getLogger("airflow.task")
+dr_tag = Variable.get("data_release_tag")
 
-    #: Name of the Spark task
-    name: str = "ImpcKgPublicationsMapper"
+# The asset has no dependencies on files as the data used to create it
+# is extracted from the publications MongoDB, but to ensure it runs while 
+# the KG is being built a dependency has been added on 
+# the output of the KG procedure_mapper.
+procedure_json_path_asset = create_input_asset("output/impc_kg/procedure_json")
 
-    #: Path of the output directory where the new parquet file will be generated.
-    output_path: luigi.Parameter = luigi.Parameter()
+publications_output_asset = create_output_asset("/impc_kg/publications_json")
 
-    def requires(self):
-        return []
-
-    def output(self):
-        """
-        Returns the full parquet path as an output for the Luigi Task
-        (e.g. impc/dr15.2/parquet/product_report_parquet)
-        """
-        return ImpcConfig().get_target(f"{self.output_path}/impc_kg/publications_json")
-
-    def app_options(self):
-        """
-        Generates the options pass to the PySpark job
-        """
-        return [
-            self.output().path,
-        ]
-
-    def main(self, sc: SparkContext, *args):
+@asset.multi(
+    schedule=[procedure_json_path_asset],
+    outlets=[publications_output_asset],
+    dag_id=f"{dr_tag}_impc_kg_publications_mapper",
+    description=textwrap.dedent(
         """
-        Takes in a SparkContext and the list of arguments generated by `app_options` and executes the PySpark job.
+        PySpark task to create the publications Knowledge Graph JSON files
+        based on the data in the production publications MongoDB.
         """
-        spark = SparkSession(sc)
-
-        # Parsing app options
-        output_path = args[0]
-
-        publications_df = spark.read.format("mongodb").load()
-
-        publications_df = publications_df.where(col("status") == "reviewed").select(
-            "title",
-            "authorString",
-            "consortiumPaper",
-            "doi",
-            col("firstPublicationDate").alias("publicationDate"),
-            col("journalInfo.journal.title").alias("journalTitle"),
-            col("alleles.acc").alias("mgiAlleleAccessionIds"),
-            col("pmid").alias("pmId"),
-            "abstractText",
-            "meshHeadingList",
-            "grantsList",
-        )
-
-        publications_df = add_unique_id(
-            publications_df,
-            "publication_id",
-            ["pmId"],
-        )
-
-        publications_df = map_unique_ids(
-            publications_df, "alleles", "mgiAlleleAccessionIds"
-        )
-
-        publications_df = publications_df.drop("mgiAlleleAccessionIds")
-
-        publications_df.coalesce(1).write.json(
-            output_path, mode="overwrite", compression="gzip"
-        )
+        ),
+    tags=["impc_kg"],
+)
+@with_spark_publications_mongo_session
+def impc_kg_publications_mapper():
+
+    from impc_etl.jobs.load.impc_kg.impc_kg_helper import add_unique_id, map_unique_ids
+    
+    from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
+    from pyspark.sql.functions import col
+
+    spark = SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate()
+
+    publications_df = spark.read.format("mongodb").option("collection", "references").load()
+
+    publications_df = publications_df.where(col("status") == "reviewed").select(
+        "title",
+        "authorString",
+        "consortiumPaper",
+        "doi",
+        col("firstPublicationDate").alias("publicationDate"),
+        col("journalInfo.journal.title").alias("journalTitle"),
+        col("alleles.acc").alias("mgiAlleleAccessionIds"),
+        col("pmid").alias("pmId"),
+        "abstractText",
+        "meshHeadingList",
+        "grantsList",
+    )
+
+    publications_df = add_unique_id(
+        publications_df,
+        "publication_id",
+        ["pmId"],
+    )
+
+    publications_df = map_unique_ids(
+        publications_df, "alleles", "mgiAlleleAccessionIds"
+    )
+
+    publications_df = publications_df.drop("mgiAlleleAccessionIds")
+
+    publications_df.coalesce(1).write.json(
+        publications_output_asset.uri, mode="overwrite", compression="gzip"
+    )