From doctoral dissertation to publication

Abstract

This article examines the publishing activity of 54 individuals who received their doctoral degrees from American universities in 1995 and the publications that were derived from their dissertations. Publication data covered two five-year periods, 1991-1995 research-in-progress and 1996-2000 postdoctoral period. One third of the graduates did not publish anything during these 10 years. The mean number of publications for all graduates came to 0.54 per year. Only one half of these graduates produced publications out of their dissertations. The mean number of publications derived from their dissertations came to 0.85 for all graduates. Only one of these publications was the result of student/advisor collaboration indicating a very low level of such activity.

The publication of health sciences theses in Turkey: A study of Ege University

“…Thus, it is expected that graduates who are employed or plan to work in an academic environment should be more willing or determined to publish articles based on their theses. This was clearly confirmed by our study finding, and answers the call for this further investigation (Anwar, 2004).…”

La ciencia política española a través de sus tesis doctorales. Evolución y perspectivas de futuro

“…Aunque es cierto que los estudios sobre el desarrollo de una disciplina se han basado, fundamentalmente, en otros indicadores -como artículos en revistas de impacto, las citas o las patentes-, algunos autores han ampliado esta información con la proporcionada por las tesis (Andersen y Hammarfelt, 2011). Así sucede en trabajos sobre medicina (Breimer, 1996;Fernández-Guerrero y otros, 2020), biblioteconomía y documentación (Anwar, 2004;Delgado-López-Cózar y otros, 2006;Zong y otros, 2013), educación (Kagra y Sharma, 2014), filosofía (Hérubel, 2007), ciencias del deporte (Yaman y Atay, 2007), o enfermería (Baggio y otros, 2014).…”