I thought thesis is the thing we need to pass to get a PhD. Do we also need to publish a certain number of papers to fulfill the criteria of "original research"?

Thanks!

Not in the UK, to the best of my knowledge.

It depends on the University/institute where your doing the PhD and depends if your PhD is more research oriented or not.

In my case (EU funded project) the actual thesis chapters will probably each be a published ISI journal article (paper)...so that's 4 to 6 papers published in journals. Most universities do not require this at all.....however having published articles, conference proceedings and presentations will be a key element on your CV and landing a good job after the PhD in the field of scientific research.

I don't think it is a requirement, but I think it is expected, to show your research is original and to show your work is actually publishable. It's also good if you want a career in Academia. I do know of people who have waited until their PhD had finished before they started to submit papers. I depends on the university really!

Hey! It depends on whether you are doing your PhD by publication or doing a more traditional PhD. For the traditional route you wouldn't be required to have publications but it is still a good idea to get some. As someone who has just started a post-doc I would recommend that everyone tries to get a few publications under their belt- it makes job-hunting an awful lot easier! Best, KB

In my experience it depends on not only the university, but the subject area. Within my university for one science based field it is not a necessity and nobody does. In another it is expected, in order that you may pass your Viva with relative ease, as it is difficult for examiners to argue against something that has already been peer reviewed by others.

However, I must agree with you, I was shocked when I found out myself that for my own subject area, the thesis wasn't really going to get me through unless it was backed with published papers (and my PhD WASN'T a PhD by publication). It certainly wasn't was I was expecting when I started my PhD and it was a nasty shock when I found out. It turned out that the paper publication thing wasn't such a tall order though, thankfully. Very, very roughly speaking, each publication becomes a chapter or two of your thesis.

In EU it's usually a PhD made of publications, the numrber of articles depends on the supervisors. However this can change to a normal PhD thesis according to the University/Supervisors decision.

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