The Quality with Government-Funded Research Projects in Kazakhstan

Abstract

Our Master’s Project is focused on analyzing current government policy on the distribution of grants for research projects administered by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. More specifically, our study is aimed at evaluating the quality of research and productivity of state-funded research projects through assessing their publication activity. We test the hypothesis that research projects, which received high peer-review scores for research proposals are more likely to publish their results in “non-predatory” peer-reviewed journals of Scopus. This study employs a quantitative research method in the form of a multiple regression analysis accompanied by the quantitative analysis in the form of stakeholder interviews. Based on the obtained results, the authors suggest some policy recommendations that will contribute to the increase of effectiveness and transparency of state-funded research, implementation of adequate policy-making, and assurance of research integrity in Kazakhstan.