When postgraduate students start to write their theses, they have usually published some papers from their findings. There are different points of view about citing the papers. What do you think; students can cite their papers in their theses?
It depends. If the student wrote a paper as part of their Master's thesis and then built upon that as part of a PhD thesis, then that's a clear citation. If the paper is specifically a part of the thesis, then the paper is not so much being cited as it is being reproduced. In which case, a footnote or other indication that material in a certain section has been published in a certain reference seems more appropriate than a citation.
It depends. If the student wrote a paper as part of their Master's thesis and then built upon that as part of a PhD thesis, then that's a clear citation. If the paper is specifically a part of the thesis, then the paper is not so much being cited as it is being reproduced. In which case, a footnote or other indication that material in a certain section has been published in a certain reference seems more appropriate than a citation.
I've seen people including their papers as appendix of the thesis. This in case that the papers were written with work of that thesis. Maybe this is the best approach
Me personally: I have cited my own papers in my phd thesis. What is important is that they are clearly marked as such: e.g. in the text you write something like: "I have published these results in [4]". Nobody can really complain about it. Another approach is to mention those only in the introduction/summary of contribution or in the conclusion section.
From the best of my knowledge, I think it is possible. In fact I did it for my master dissertation. As your previous paper has been validated by a scientific committee before publication I strongly think it is therefore scientifically valid and can therfore be cited even by yourself.
Yes, but the citation should be relevant to the research at hand
As far as the paper was published in a journal, you have the right to cite anywhere. However, regarding the thesis, this mainly depends upon the rules of the university. Different universities have different rules of writing the thesis. Sometimes the thesis is based on the number of papers, therefore, self citation or discussion of the papers are may be controlled with rules of the university.
Since the paper was published in journal, you can site the work anywhere. But that is not required for writing the thesis. Some of the universities keeping the published papers as the thesis chapters. Some of the universities not allowing that. In that cases you can mention the published papers as "visible outputs".
I agree and allow my students to cite their related past publications. It will keep the research track on.
I'm dealing with that now, my type of thesis include all the already published papers as chapters. So instead of citing the articles I replaced all by the chapter numbers, as is mentioned in the intro that all the chapters are already published this situation is clarified. However I'm not sure if citation of papers inside a thesis really account for the citation statistics of the papers.
This is an important question. In addition to the many helpful answers already given for this thread, there is a bit more to add.
There is definitely motivation for a student to include self-citations in a thesis. This is especially true in the following cases:
Theorem: In cases where a student has introduced a theorem with its proof in a paper coauthored with that student's advisor, it is important that the theorem include a citation to the coauthored paper. This is important in cases where the student signals independent work introduced in a published result. Let JQStudentKLAdvisor2018JAMpaper be a hyperlink to a published paper. For a theorem introduced by the student, the following entry could appear in the thesis:
\begin{theorem}~\cite{JQStudentKLAdvisor2018JAMpaper}
Assertion.
\end{theorem}
Metric. In cases where a student has introduced a metric in a paper coauthored with that student's advisor, the following entry could appear in the thesis:
\begin{align*}
\mbox{metric} M &= \dots~\mbox{~\cite{JQStudentKLAdvisor2018JAMpaper},
defined by}\\
\mbox{property} A &= \dots.
\end{align*}
Dear J F Peters
Greetings
There should be a page on "List of Publications," where all the research articles that are included in the thesis should be listed with a statement that "this thesis is based on the following research publications."
As their content is included inside the thesis, therefore, I don't think they should be cited inside the text. However, to support the findings, one may cite the paper at their appropriate positions that these findings have already been published, which will ease on the reader to check the validity and strengths of the work.
Kindest Regards
@ Irfan Ullah: There should be a page on "List of Publications," ....
Many thanks for pointing this out.
Detailed guidelines for the contents of the list of publications for a thesis are given in
http://www.uta.fi/yky/en/services/vacancies/List%20of%20publications.pdf
Another good source of guidelines for the list of publications in a thesis is given in
http://www.nifs.ac.jp/en/jinji/List_kijun_English.pdf
LaTeX code for setting up the list of publications in a thesis is given in
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/285273/list-of-publications-grouped-and-ordered
Good question, indeed.
It can't be generalised. It is customary to mention the student's published paper on a page "List of Publications," of the PhD thesis. Since his/her thesis work has made use of his/her paper, it can be cited provided that the data set and methodology are different. However, if the the data set and methodology are NOT different. that paper should be mentioned only on "List of Publications," page.
Literature Review allow students to select their own Articles for Essays and Dissertation Writing. Supervisors should tell them students would use Books and News Articles with Journal Articles which would be not more than 5 years old. Regards
Very interesting question and very good contributions to it. The logical answer is "yes", if a previous result has already been published and it is necessary to indicate it in the thesis and whose authorship is that of the one presenting the thesis.
Sure and I think it is a optional thing and depends on public situation not just private
I also think this is possible. However, every article has its own value. Written by yourself or someone else.
Its acceptable to self cite a part of your findings in the thesis, or depend on a proof that you made prior.
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My already published research papers with main results have been cited in my PhD thesis. I like it.
Besides direct citations, you can use two Bibliography lists: 1st is the authors you normally cited and the 2nd is 'Author's works'.
It is possible to cite yourself as long as the works are published
Mohammad Nadimi Shahraki
Generally, to assure an accurate self-citations, it should be used to support the arguments, not to demonstrate your research. Moreover, self-cites may used to compare recent findings of the research with previous results when studying the same theme. The important point here is to avoid turning self-citations into self-promotion.
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