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Should I write a monograph for myself?
My dissertation is going to be a thesis by publication. I am going to publish a couple of papers and put those into one document with a couple of leading words (another 20 pages or so) and this is ...
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Can University revoke my degree if I change some results, and how can I correct it?
In my research I was asked to edit some conclusions making them more significant at the behest of my adviser. I did what I was asked because I was immature at that time in my thesis work. At that time ...
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Does a master's research project (not a thesis) count as a "publication" for PhD applications?
My master's in mathematical finance doesn't have a "thesis" exactly, but it has a research project where we helped a bank develop a model to help with credit risk by identifying which variables were ...
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Is it advisable to upload your PhD thesis on Biorxiv?
The university theses repository is not indexed in the main scientific literature search engines. This issue makes finding a thesis difficult, and it's a problem especially because after PhD many are ...
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Can a single co-authored paper be part of two stapled dissertations (by two people)?
Two friends of mine, Alice and Bob, enrolled in two different Ph.D. programs, have been collaborating in a research project and writing a paper together. They have submitted the abstract to a certain ...
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Publishing graph of unpublished work in paper
I am writing a paper which is building up on the work I have published earlier. It includes experimental results which were used to further develop the model.
To show that the model has improved I ...
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To publish or not to publish [duplicate]
There are two parts to this question.
As a student interested in pursuing a doctoral degree; how important is it to publish an article or "something" before one applies? Will it help your chances? I ...
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Publicly available extended summary of PhD thesis and manuscript submission
In my country, if a PhD thesis is written in national language, the candidate must also submit an extended summary of the thesis in English, which will be deposited in a national repository and will ...
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Which one is your priority? Writing thesis or writing academic paper [closed]
Which one do you recommend and why? 1: Finish writing PhD dissertation and extract papers from your thesis. 2. Start writing papers and complete your thesis based on your papers?
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The correct & acceptable phrase to indicate that some papers are very likely to be accepted
I have several papers that are resubmitted to journals with minor revisions.
I feel they are very much likely to be accepted by the time my actual Ph.D. viva takes place in one month.
But I need to ...
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Who Owns the Publishing Rights of my Ph.D. Thesis?
I wrote my Ph.D. thesis without copy/pasting any of my prior published articles. Now that the university library got hold of my Ph.D. thesis; I'm wondering who owns the entire publishing rights of my ...
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What are the main factors that mean Humanities PhDs get published as books?
In both this comment and this answer it is conveyed that it is often the case in the humanities, that PhD thesis are viewed as a first draft of a book and are often published. There are probably a ...
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Is it expected that a part-time masters student publish before transferring to a PhD?
After reading this question, I am curious as to the publication expectations for part-time students. I am a Mlitt Student (working full-time and studying part-time) and am in the process of switching ...
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Comparing results if there have been no similar studies
I examined seven years of financial data for a given country. However, there have been no similar studies that have the same sample as mine and cover a seven-year period (most study just one year in ...
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When is a supervisor unable to request paper retraction if a paper gets published without her consent?
If a ex-PhD student publishes a paper from his thesis without his ex-supervisor's consent, the paper gets retracted upon his ex-adviser's request to the editor.
My question is: Could there be any ...
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