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Should review manuscripts be allowed to cite unpublished thesis dissertations?
Paper Discussion
Dissertations contain large amounts of valuable unpublished work. But they have not gone through formal peer review. Some journals discourage citing PhD theses. Where should researchers draw the line for citing full‑text dissertations?
Aaron Roberts, Tping and 10 others4 Comments-
Cite dissertations when no equivalent peer‑reviewed journal/conference article exists.
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Explicitly mark in‑text that source is an unpublished dissertation.
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Keep dissertation citations as minority among your overall reference list.
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Whenever possible, prefer to wait for journal‑published derivative work if available.
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