The pie charts below illustrate the number of journal articles read per week by all students, PhD students, and junior lecturers at an Australian university.

The three pie charts compare the number of academic journal articles read each week by PhD students, junior lecturers, and the overall student population at an Australian university.

Overall, PhD students read substantially more articles than either junior lecturers or the average student, with a particularly large proportion reading twelve or more per week.

Among doctoral candidates, 80% read at least twelve articles weekly, compared with just 12% of all students. Only 5% of PhD students read between one and five articles, in stark contrast to the 67% recorded for the overall student body.

Junior lecturers showed a different pattern. Almost all (99%) read at least six articles weekly, but only 24% read twelve or more, roughly one-third of the proportion for PhD students. The majority of lecturers fell into the six-to-eleven article range.

These figures indicate that while junior lecturers maintain a consistently high level of academic reading, doctoral researchers far exceed both them and the wider student population in terms of intensive weekly reading.