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This research aims to explore the effect of three factors including support from university, teaching schedule, and research team (independent variables) on the research publication rate (dependent variable) in a public and a private sector university of Lahore, Pakistan. The study is carried out through adopting the mixed methods approach therefore it employed pragmatism paradigm. The population comprises on 986 faculty members from both the universities, out of which 400 (200 from each selected university) for quantitative data collection and eight (four from each selected university) senior faculty members for qualitative data generation were selected. The selection of universities and faculty members was done purposively and conveniently. Structured questionnaire has been used to collect the quantitative data and semi-structured interview protocol has been used to generate qualitative data. Publication record from both the universities has also been obtained to compare the publication rate. Quantitative data has been analyzed through the use of multiple regression technique, in order to draw main messages from interview transcripts thematic analysis has been used and document analysis was done to compare the research publication rate of selected universities. Results of the quantitative data highlight that in both the universities there is statistically significant relationship between three independent variables including support from university, teaching schedule and research team, and the dependent variable that is research publication rate. The findings of the study from both the data sets indicate that the three factors (support from university, teaching schedule, and research team) taken as independent variables have significant effect on the research publication rate taken as dependent variable. Findings from qualitative data reveal that faculty members expect support from the university management through reducing their teaching workload, developing research teams, and providing infrastructure, research facilities and finance for their research activities. Overall the private sector university has stronger research culture than the public sector university in Pakistan.

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