No paper, no PhD? India rethinks graduate student policy

Re:No paper, no PhD? India rethinks graduate student policy by egocodedinsol on Friday May 31, 2019 @09:53PM (#20066642)

FWIW that social standard, and the mindset behind it can really penalize some fields. FWIW, in some fields of neuroscience it is common even for very successful phds to not publish before defense, and a single paper requires massive amounts of work, while other neuro fields churn out short paper after short paper because the culture is focused that way, and the experiments less time consuming.

It puts some students at a severe disadvantage for hiring because they get screened out because they chose a field that publishes 50 page papers instead of 2 page papers.

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Re:No paper, no PhD? India rethinks graduate student policy by jldugger on Saturday June 01, 2019 @04:49AM (#20068167)

Is it common to see people hiring the category of 'PhD in anything at all' and not 'PhD in neuroscience or highly related subject?'

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Re:No paper, no PhD? India rethinks graduate student policy by egocodedinsol on Saturday June 01, 2019 @10:27AM (#20069352)

I'm saying that even within neuroscience there is large variation in publication frequency and expectation.

So if person from neuro discipline A and neuro discipline B are applying for the same job in data science, discipline A could get screened out because they spent years training a monkey to do a brain machine interface task while person B published five fMRI papers in three years. Neither candidate is going to use their specific neuro expertise, but rather their general data science skill set. One will be at a huge disadvantage unless she is hired directly by people who know her field.

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