مجلة إشكالات في اللغة و الأدب
Volume 15, Numéro 3, Pages 455-465
2026-09-02

Academic Publishing Challenges Among Phd Students Of English At Naama University

Authors : El Hadj Said Nabila .

Abstract

The process of publishing manuscripts in academic journals is perceived as a vital component of scholarly productivity. Publishing in reputable international academic journals is considered as indispensable for researchers in order to share their research among international scholarly communities and thus contribute to the elevation of their institutions’ ranking. However, many researchers mainly doctoral students encounter numerous challenges and barriers in formulating papers for publication. The current study aims to explore the main factors that affect the publication output of doctoral students of English at Naama university. Data were collected using an online questionnaire administered to 20 doctoral students and were evaluated using descriptive statistics. The findings of the study reveal that challenges and obstacles to academic publication are multifaceted involving writing skills, time constraints, supervision support, linguistic proficiency, peer review and psychological barriers. Addressing these issues requires a comprehensive support from the part of institutions and universities.

Keywords

linguistic proficiency ; peer review ; psychological factors ; publishing ; writing skills