• Richard@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It depends. In the proper field with the right topic, dissertations can absolutely contain very valuable and novel conclusions derived from the doctoral candidate’s experiments.

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      Agreed, if you didn’t publish parts of your dissertation before or after completion, then your advisor wasn’t really doing their job.