Fig 1.
Relative frequency distribution of advice on pursuing an academic research career.
(A) To estimate the prevalence of advice from postdoc respondents, the frequency of the codes was analyzed and displayed by the bars (left axis) in descending order along with its contribution to the cumulative percentage, represented by the line (right axis). (B) The top 20 most frequent codes are displayed and (C) listed by frequency.
Table 1.
Demographic information of survey participants.
Table 2.
Categories which emerged from the codes: Life in Academia.
Table 3.
Categories which emerged from the codes: Career planning.
Table 4.
Categories which emerged from the codes: Strategies for Success.
Fig 2.
Cost-benefit ratio of pursuing an academic research career.
The codes are listed alphabetically in their respective columns. An end limit of “45” (a double of the average frequency value of 22.5) was set for the data bars to provide a representative visual comparison of the codes’ frequencies.