No to all those questions for my PhD. I'm in New Zealand btw :)

Hi Shannon, in Mexico university we do publications before conclude the PhD. I think is useful do it.

Hi Shannon,

In some Indian Universities it is mandatory to publish one or two papers before final submission.

I have published several papers from my doctoral thesis after completion of my PhD.

In Most of the Indian universities it is mandatory to publish two research papers from research work in SCI/Scopus indexed journals.

Good question. Unfortunately I did not publish during my PhD or included a publication in my PhD thesis. That was not required in my university QUB-Belfast 2004. I have something to say that I am against not to publish during PhD, that is the most experience to learn scientific communications. I know someone before me in the same department publish something that I think that may depend on enthusiastic supervisors for students, or other conditions to tolerate PhD students. I wish QUB-Belfast to change to apply publications to all students without exceptions

Aly R Abdel-Moemin

Publishing paper is an art and one should master it. Supervisors should help their students to publish quality papers well in time. I have seen that in some cases the studends due to lack of time management are forced to publish in not so good online journals by paying processing fees because it is a mandatory prerequisite prior to thesis submission.

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Germany, Dr. phil.: You usually do your research, hand in your thesis, have an oral exam on your research (disputation) or oral exam with a scope on the general field of your field (rigorosum), then publish the thesis and after that recieve your Dr. phil. and documentation.

As for pre-PhD-publications: your supervisors will usually try to keep you from doing that. The given reasons are usually those, that your PhD-topic should not be published on prior to your publication of your thesis, and publishing prior to your PhD might turn your attention away from your research. I, however, still published when I was still writing my thesis. When presenting your research at a conference, publishing a very general overview that appears to be like an extended abstact is easy in the documentation. Apart from that I edited a festschrift on a very general topic, including another essay on a topic loosely related to my PhD-research, but no key element.

Whilst many professors argue, that one's attention is being driven away from your research, my experiences were completely different. Writing a thesis over a long period of time is a very lonely process and only much later you will reap the fruits of your labor. Until then there is a lot of writing, rewriting and disposing of what you have written. Actually being able to finish a product like an essay and publishing it is very encouraging and your PhD thesis might profit from it.

So, whilst I am strongly against publishing parts of your dissertation prior to your exams, I strongly recommend to publish something or at least be involved in a board of editors along the way for the aforementioned reasons.

in Syrian Universities, it is mandatory to publish papers before final submission. publishing in international peer reviewed and well recognized journals has higher marks than publishing in local journals. in addition, you get an honor score if you could obtain a patent.

Thank you all for sharing! It's great to hear about the different approaches to doctoral education in different countries. It's clear that emphasis is being placed in many universities on getting candidates to engage in the publication process. In my opinion, this is so important as publications really are the 'bread and butter' of academia (to use an English idiom).

Yeah, published several articles from my PhD dissertation in well reputed journals.

Hi Shannon, i published two papers during my PhD. and still publicating out of the dissertation. it is mandatory to publish articles at Bayero University, Kano-Nigeria before completing your study. This to me is usefull as it will enable you to acquire more knowledge through peer reviewers and editors