Grdauation Requirement

Course Requirements

Dissertation and Publication Requirements

A dissertation must contain at least three manuscripts with a common research topic. In addition, the dissertation must include an Introduction section as the first section of the thesis before these manuscripts, and a General Discussion section as the last section of the thesis.

The three manuscripts must meet the following conditions:

1) At least two of the manuscripts must be manuscripts featuring empirical research. At least one of these must be a manuscript published or accepted in a journal indexed in WoS by the time of the thesis defense, in which the student is the first author. If the other empirical manuscript has not been published or accepted in a journal indexed in WoS, the approval of the thesis advisor is required that it is ready to be submitted for publication in a journal of this quality.

2) The third manuscript must be published or accepted in a journal scanned in WoS, SCOPUS or TRDizin, or it must be a chapter in a book published by a CERES member or a publishing house in Turkey that complies with academic promotion criteria, or it must have the approval of the thesis advisor that it is ready to be evaluated for publication. This manuscript can be an empirical study or a review manuscript.

3) The student must be the first author in at least two of the manuscripts.