> How many are first authorships by the student? Are they peer-reviewed? These are still supervision/mentorship failures. It is doubtful that the PhD student i

> How many are first authorships by the student? Are they peer-reviewed? These are still supervision/mentorship failures. It is doubtful that the PhD student independently submitted papers to non-peer-reviwed venues without the Prof. having any say. And it is doubly doubtful that the student sneaked themselves as 3rd-4th authors in that many papers without the Prof. approving of that. > It's possible that the student just needs to get one or two papers past a peer-review process to satisfy the Prof. That is certainly possible. Still, having contributed to 8 papers over 4 years without enough of them qualifying as material for your thesis is bad supervision.