> It's the same kind of size and complexity as a doctoral thesis except that as a professional you're expected to produce them a bit quicker, say 1-2 months of

> It's the same kind of size and complexity as a doctoral thesis except that as a professional you're expected to produce them a bit quicker, say 1-2 months of work. As I recall, it only took me about two months to write my PhD thesis. The hard part, which took a few years, was finding an interesting question, and collecting the requisite data. And also, getting up to speed on some decades of literature. But subsequent papers didn't take much more than a few months each.