Survey on PhD Candidate Publishing Barriers and Stress in Kazakhstan

A survey of 53 PhD candidates and recent graduates in Kazakhstan explores their awareness of publication requirements, perceived barriers, and experiences of support. The study uses descriptive statistics, composite scales, and regression analysis on data from an online survey and an Instagram story poll. The data was published by Mereke Zeinollakizi on figshare in April 2026 under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze perceived barriers to academic publishing based on linguistic, methodological, and financial factors mentioned in the description.
• Model the relationship between perceived support and stress levels among doctoral researchers.
• Investigate openness to questionable journals based on reported ethical dimensions.
• Compare institutional support structures across different research contexts.

Strengths

• Includes data from a primary survey of 53 PhD candidates and recent graduates.
• Contains results from a separate contextual Instagram story poll with 421 self-identified PhD candidates.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 151.5 KB PDF file; the underlying raw survey data is not directly accessible.
• Row count and column-level documentation for the original survey data are unknown.
• The main survey sample size of 53 is relatively small, which the description notes limited the power of exploratory models.

Provenance

Source

Mereke Zeinollakizi

Collection Method

Cross-sectional online survey and an Instagram story poll.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-13 05:47:28.

Geography

Kazakhstan