The three pie charts illustrate the weekly number of journal articles read by three groups at an Australian university: all students, PhD candidates, and junior lecturers.
Overall, PhD students and junior lecturers read a significantly higher number of articles than the general student population. While the majority of undergraduate students engaged with fewer than five articles weekly, both PhD students and lecturers were more likely to read over twelve.
Looking first at all students, almost two-thirds (64%) read one to five articles each week, while only 19% consumed six to ten. By contrast, just 2% managed to read more than a dozen, highlighting a relatively low level of engagement with academic literature among this group.
A very different pattern emerges for PhD students. Only a small minority (6%) read fewer than five articles weekly, whereas more than two-thirds (67%) accessed over twelve. Similarly, junior lecturers demonstrated heavy reading habits, with 80% consuming more than a dozen articles, leaving fewer than one in five in the lower ranges.
In summary, while general students tended to read a limited number of journal articles, both PhD students and junior lecturers showed much greater levels of academic reading, particularly at the highest category of more than twelve articles per week.