Assessing the doctoral thesis when it includes published work

Retningslinjer og vurderingskriterier for artikkelbasert ph.d

“…Eksisterende litteratur viser at det er stor variasjon mellom ulike universiteter og mellom ulike fagområder når det kommer til krav og retningslinjer for artikkelbasert ph.d. Det appelleres gjentakende om universelle retningslinjer, da dette vil gjøre det mer tydelig for studenter, veiledere og opponenter hva som forventes fra denne typen ph.d. (Sharmini et al, 2015).…”

Connecting the Dots: Writing a Doctoral Thesis by Publication

“…In some cases, the publications are used retrospectively by academics to demonstrate that the contribution they have already made to their discipline is equivalent to a PhD; in this case, some universities award what is sometimes known as a "staff doctorate" (Davies & Rolf, 2009;Wilson, 2002) or "PhD by prior publication" (Jackson, 2013). Increasingly, however, the PhD or thesis by or through publications (Niven & Grant, 2012), also known as an article-based PhD (Thune et al, 2012) or publication-based PhD (Sharmini et al, 2015), is undertaken by novice researchers during their doctoral candidature. These "compilation" theses (Dellgran & Höjer, 2012) are generally presented as a series of publications framed by a substantial introductory literature review and concluding discussion (Jackson, 2013).…”

“…Nevertheless, is it important to recognise that the question of authorship becomes more complicated when papers form part of the thesis by publication (Sharmini et al, 2015;Christianson et al, 2015). Examiners need to be provided with clear information detailing the candidate's own contribution to each paper, and concerns can arise regarding the extent to which the supervisor or co-author has "written" the paper in order to get the material up to a suitable standard for publication.…”

Knowledge Production in Two Types of Medical PhD Routes—What’s to Gain?

“…In the medical domain, the number of studies included in a thesis did not always correspond to that of thesis-related articles and this fact is related to the university awarding the PhD (there is no consensus among UK universities guidelines on the quantity and the quality of the publications) [12,14,23,30]. Sometimes, a study can be divided into several articles, or several studies may be combined to create one article [31].…”

“…The publication-based theses (PBT) group was comprised of 3 PhD by Published Work (PW, retrospective publication-based thesis) and 29 PhDs with Alternative format theses (AT, prospective publication-based thesis). We associated PW and AT PhD theses in the same group since PW theses had similar structure and purpose as the AT theses according to the awarding institutions' regulations [29,30].…”