diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish_documentation.yml b/.github/workflows/publish_documentation.yml
index c06d535f0..34eff8f34 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish_documentation.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish_documentation.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
       - develop
+    paths:
+      - docs/mkdocs/**
+      - docs/examples/**
 
 # we don't want to have concurrent jobs, and we don't want to cancel running jobs to avoid broken publications
 concurrency: