diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/space/kscience/gradle/internal/publishing.kt b/src/main/kotlin/space/kscience/gradle/internal/publishing.kt
index 969bc79..f0d15c3 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/space/kscience/gradle/internal/publishing.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/space/kscience/gradle/internal/publishing.kt
@@ -63,16 +63,8 @@ internal fun Project.setupPublication(mavenPomConfiguration: MavenPom.() -> Unit
                 }
             }
 
-            val dokkaJar by tasks.creating(Jar::class) {
-                group = "documentation"
-                archiveClassifier.set("javadoc")
-                from(tasks.findByName("dokkaHtml"))
-            }
-
             // Process each publication we have in this project
             publications.withType<MavenPublication> {
-                artifact(dokkaJar)
-
                 pom {
                     name.set(project.name)
                     description.set(project.description ?: project.name)
@@ -85,6 +77,17 @@ internal fun Project.setupPublication(mavenPomConfiguration: MavenPom.() -> Unit
                 }
             }
 
+            plugins.withId("org.jetbrains.dokka") {
+                val dokkaJar by tasks.creating(Jar::class) {
+                    group = "documentation"
+                    archiveClassifier.set("javadoc")
+                    from(tasks.findByName("dokkaHtml"))
+                }
+                publications.withType<MavenPublication> {
+                    artifact(dokkaJar)
+                }
+            }
+
             if (requestPropertyOrNull("publishing.signing.id") != null || requestPropertyOrNull("signing.gnupg.keyName") != null) {
 
                 if (!plugins.hasPlugin("signing")) {