Hi all,
I've been applying for a couple of scholarships and also have heard of many colleagues that the number of publication plays and important role in getting scholarships, research job positions. I can see some scholarship reviewers might not be experts in the specific filed and counting the number of publication would be an easy and convenient task. However, I'm afraid that such a policy would encourage students to produce somewhat low quality/ high volume publications. The scientific literature is already overwhelmed with the innumerous number of papers and finding the true trends and citing the right paper becomes a mind-numbingly arduous task.
I am not sure about the situation for the PIs in receiving grants.
BTW, most of my information comes from applying for scholarships in Canada. I would love to know about other countries and I would love to hear your opinions and discussions in ways to improve the assessment criteria.
Bests,
Arash
For research related scholarships or job, it is absolutely necessary to have some papers published as it will indicate that you have a bit of experience and things won't be hard for you. As a matter of fact it gives you more credit.
As to how many publications they are looking at that might be at their own discretion.
By the way do you know how mant they want?
Of course a few high-quality papers would be a proof of your ability and potential to be a promising researcher. The problem arises when the expectations falls into the number of papers instead of the quality of the research.
the number of papers have never been apparent but usually goes beyond 5 papers or so.
Arash sorry to hear about you struggling to get a scholarship. I am sure you have at least one good quality paper. I know there is a lot of competition out there but the process should be fair.
5 papers per year?
Joelle bukumbabu Mukendi
I'm assuming 5 papers in your CV, not sure
In my viewpoint，the main purpose of recruiting Phds is to complete projects which are usually required some papers. In this case，if a student could publish some papers，it will be potential for him to be recruited.
Your answer can be found here. I read this article and it describes every single point that an applicant should know
https://www.hsabroad.info/2022/06/Is-publication-important-for-scholarship-application.html?
You need some publications. These publications should be journals. I don't know if articles are good enough
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