Quality vs. Quantity
03/06/10 14:46 Filed in: GenomeWeb Daily Scan
Submitted by S. Pelech - Kinexus on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 14:46.
Every effort should be expended for graduate students to publish original research in peer-reviewed journals. This exercise should be an essential part of the training experience of Ph.D. students. At the University of British Columbia, several of our graduate programs in the health-related sciences require that Ph.D. students also write mock grant applications. The capabilities to attract funding and effectively disseminate research results and conclusions are essential skill sets for a successful academic researcher. That being said, it is also true that graduate students that are engaged in highly competitive research areas can often be scooped so that their work does not have sufficient novelty upon completion to be published. As long as the graduate student has undertaken a series of original studies that have resulted in a body of research findings that meet the standards of a Ph.D. thesis in a proper defense, he or she should not be denied the degree.
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Every effort should be expended for graduate students to publish original research in peer-reviewed journals. This exercise should be an essential part of the training experience of Ph.D. students. At the University of British Columbia, several of our graduate programs in the health-related sciences require that Ph.D. students also write mock grant applications. The capabilities to attract funding and effectively disseminate research results and conclusions are essential skill sets for a successful academic researcher. That being said, it is also true that graduate students that are engaged in highly competitive research areas can often be scooped so that their work does not have sufficient novelty upon completion to be published. As long as the graduate student has undertaken a series of original studies that have resulted in a body of research findings that meet the standards of a Ph.D. thesis in a proper defense, he or she should not be denied the degree.
Link to the original blog post.