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This seemed so strange to me as a former operations research PhD student. Most people were co-authoring all of their papers with their advisers. There was nothi
by _raoulcousins 9y ago
This seemed so strange to me as a former operations research PhD student. Most people were co-authoring all of their papers with their advisers. There was nothing to steal because the adviser is already an author on all of it. The rare single-author paper was usually a side project of no interest to the adviser.
EDIT: non-adviser committee members didn't usually co-author a paper, but I never heard of a committee member or professor appropriating a student's work. I don't mean to say it doesn't happen, because if it was, it would probably be well hidden. I'm just not sure if it happened in my field and I was oblivious, or it didn't.
- scott_s 9y agoI felt similarly. In computer science, we tend to publish our work as we go, so the dissertation is just weaving all of that work together into a coherent narrative. (Or coherent-ish.) I wonder if the humanities are more susceptible to this kind of abuse, maybe because they don't publish as much during the process? Long turn-around time on publishing articles could exacerbate this.
- gozur88 9y agoSeems like you would have known, or at least heard rumors. Word gets around when people do that kind of stuff.
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- kenferry 9y agoThe expectations around co-authorship vary from field to field.
- hyperbovine 9y agoThere is just no comparing a STEM Ph.D. with what the author was doing (Ph.D. in art history). I literally think the STEM degree should have a different name, S.D. or something. Penury, ~8-yr tenure in grad school, book-length thesis, zero job prospects (academic or otherwise).. it's just a totally different world from what you experienced.