This article investigates the current state of faculty research activity within Tajik higher education institutions (HEIs), where the level of research productivity has substantially decreased in the past three decades. As part of a larger ethnographic study on professional lives of Tajik faculty members, we investigated and found enormous challenges to conducting research and becoming active researchers reported by our respondents. We analyze and discuss how such issues may challenge the development of higher education in the country.

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塔吉克斯坦高等教育研究与出版面临的教师挑战和障碍

本文调查了塔吉克斯坦高等教育机构（HEIs）内教师研究活动的当前状态，在过去的三十年中，其研究生产率水平已大大下降。作为对塔吉克教职员工职业生活的一项较大的人种志研究的一部分，我们调查了调查结果，并发现我们的受访者称，开展研究并成为活跃的研究人员面临巨大挑战。我们分析并讨论了此类问题可能如何挑战该国高等教育的发展。