PhD Candidate Survey on Publishing Barriers and Stress in Kazakhstan

Supplementary file 2 contains a PDF of a research paper titled 'Publish or perish in an emerging research system: barriers, stress, and ethical risks among PhD candidates in Kazakhstan'. The paper presents results from a cross-sectional online survey of 53 PhD candidates and recent graduates in Kazakhstan, conducted by Mereke Zeinollakizi. The dataset was last updated on figshare in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze perceived barriers to academic publishing based on linguistic, methodological, and organizational factors mentioned in the description
• Study the relationship between publication requirements and stress levels among doctoral candidates
• Investigate institutional and supervisory support structures for PhD researchers in emerging systems
• Examine ethical vulnerabilities and openness to questionable journals under publication pressure

Strengths

• Includes data from a primary survey of 53 PhD candidates and recent graduates
• Provides an indicative contextual snapshot from an Instagram story poll with 421 self-identified PhD candidates
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license

Limitations

• The dataset is a 151.5 KB PDF; the underlying survey data (rows, columns) is not directly accessible
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the paper
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative analysis

Provenance

Source

Mereke Zeinollakizi

Collection Method

Cross-sectional online survey and an Instagram story poll

Time Range

Survey period not specified in metadata

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-13 05:47:30; freshness should be verified

Geography

Kazakhstan