This exploratory study analyses growing pressures on faculty in Central Asia to publish research in high-quality international journals and how faculty attempt to meet publishing mandates from institutions and ministries motivated to join world rankings. This is important because of the scarcity of Central Asian scholarship in peer-reviewed journalism and mass communication (J&MC) journals due to the exceptional challenges faculty face publishing their work internationally.

This study, the first of its kind for international J&MC scholarship, draws on a survey and qualitative interviews with faculty who presented research on J&MC topics at one or more Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) conferences from 2015 to 2019. The study selected CESS because it is one of the few academic and international venues focused on the region.

It found that a third of conference papers were subsequently published. Among paper authors who did not publish, many cite heavy teaching and administrative workloads, weak methodological and theoretical exposure, and unfamiliarity with international standards of research writing. The article discusses the findings in relation to the growing number of predatory journals, escalating demands on faculty to publish internationally, Western-centric disciplinary journals, and insufficient research support from their institutions and ministries.

这项探索性研究分析了中亚地区教师在高质量国际期刊上发表研究论文的压力，以及教师如何努力满足有动机加入世界排名的机构和部委的出版要求。这很重要，因为由于教师在国际上发表其作品面临的特殊挑战，因此在同行评审的新闻和大众传播（J＆MC）期刊中缺乏中亚奖学金。

这项研究是国际上首个针对J＆MC奖学金的研究，它是通过对在2015年至2019年一个或多个中央欧亚研究学会（CESS）会议上介绍J＆MC主题的研究人员进行的调查和定性采访而进行的。该研究之所以选择CESS是因为它是该地区为数不多的学术和国际场所之一。

研究发现随后发表了三分之一的会议论文。在未发表论文的作者中，许多人引用了繁重的教学和行政工作，方法论和理论上的薄弱环节以及对国际研究论文标准的不熟悉。本文讨论了与掠夺性期刊数量不断增长，对教师在国际上以西方为中心的纪律期刊进行出版的要求不断提高以及其机构和部门的研究支持不足有关的发现。