On July 1st, 2022, we closed the State of the Research Community Survey. Over the duration of the survey — which was live for nearly two months — we received over 10,000 responses from researchers in different fields and at different career stages working in countries all over the world. Besides an overall completion rate of ~60% for the 51-question survey, we received several thousand open-ended responses, in which researchers provided details about issues like blockers for a more supportive research environment, their career prospects, and other aspects of their work-life-research balance.
We look forward to diving deeper into the data and plan to release a report on our findings later this year. For now, we wanted to share some initial takeaways that give insight into respondent demographics:
While most respondents work in the natural sciences and engineering, ~22% of respondents report working in social sciences and humanities.
The largest fraction of respondents (35.5%) report currently working in Asian countries, followed by fractions of ~15-16% working in Western European countries and Africa. About 11% report working in South and Central America, and 7% in the USA and Canada.
About 30% of respondents work in full or assistant/associate professor positions, while 20% are PhD candidates, and 7% describe themselves as post-doctoral researchers.
As we announced when the survey launched we will make the data available to the community to enable researchers and organizations to do their own analyses.
Are you interested in using this data for your own research? Get in touch through this form and we'll let you know as soon as the data is available for sharing.
Stay tuned for more information about the survey's outcomes, and thanks once again to all who participated!
