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This was not my experience. My UK Computer Science peer group was expected to publish their thesis work in a good journal, with some conference papers along the
by robotresearcher 11y ago
This was not my experience. My UK Computer Science peer group was expected to publish their thesis work in a good journal, with some conference papers along the way. The thesis was the definitive long-form version, but a key question at the defence was "so where was this work published?". "It wasn't" would not have been a good answer.
Expectations may vary by school.
- danieltillett 11y agoThey vary by area because of the nature of research. It is much harder in the experimental sciences to "schedule" results. My PhD has both experimental (lab work) and computing aspects and all the computing research took within the expect time (+- 20%). The lab aspects were much more variable. I had one experiment which I expected would take 3 months to finalise that worked first time and I was finished by the afternoon (this doesn't happen that often unfortunately), while other experiments I thought would take a week ended up taking 6 months.
- sillypog 11y agoYes, my experience was in the biological sciences, where bench work can have a very long amount of time between iterations. I'm always amazed that anyone working with mammals (eg evaluating transgenic mice) ever finishes their work. The issue is really the hard cut off that was mentioned above. Had I stayed on longer at that lab, I may have been able to get my results published, but there are many incentives to move on.
- danieltillett 11y agoThis is true. The problem is that when you go looking for a post doc if you don't have any publications then you are thought to be incompetent.
- robotresearcher 11y agoIf you were hiring a post doc for a two-year position, would you choose the person who had managed to convert research into a published paper in 3-4 years, or the other guy?
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