Promotionsordnung
Guidelines concerning the prevention of plagiarismCumulative Doctorate
Only possible in the subject Earth Sciences!
Please ask the Dean's Office in good time, i.e. at least 15 weeks before the desired doctoral date, when the dissertation and the other doctoral documents are to be submitted.
A cumulative dissertation must also be submitted as a letterpress (hard copy) hardcover.
In the future, the dean should decide on admission to the doctoral examination procedure if the next conditions are all met:
Number of contributions
- The cumulative dissertation contains at least three scientific writings and additionally a summary introduction of about 40 pages.
- Of the three papers, two must have already been published or accepted in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
- Both journals of the published articles are among the top half of the ranking prevailing in a field. This must be demonstrated in writing in the dissertation, e.g., by listing the journals in quartiles Q1 or Q2 in the SCImago Journal Rank of the SCOPUS database in the last available year prior to the year of submission of the dissertation.
Authorship
The doctoral candidate is the first or equal author of at least two of the papers. This must be explicitly stated in the dissertation; in case of publication with another person by signature of the co-author, in all other cases by signature of at least two of the co-authors.
CRediT Contributor Roles Taxonomy
- For each publication listed, the doctoral candidate declares what contributions the individual co-authors made to the publication in question.
- To document the contributions made, the categories of the CRediT Contributor Roles Taxonomy are recommended.
- This information must be confirmed by the caregiver's signature.
- The supervisor further confirms by signature that the independent work contributions of the doctoral candidate to each listed publication are sufficient and significant.
Structure
The cumulative dissertation to be submitted for registration for the examination procedure should have the following structure:
- Cover sheets
- Short summary in German and in English (§ 7 (3) Prom.O)
- Summary (objective, methodology, main results and resulting conclusions) about 40 pages
- Summary bibliography
- Publications (with details of the respective status and co-authors)
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The Cumulative Dissertation Form must be included after each publication.
Information about the publications
At least two of the publications must have been published ("accepted") in a peer-reviewed journal. For each of the publications, the respective status (submitted, peer-reviewed, accepted, in which publication medium published) as well as the other authors involved must be stated.
Please inform yourself about how you can integrate the results of your dissertation that have already been published or under what conditions the publishers allow you to use the publications in your dissertation. Further information can be found on the website of the university library.
The publications must be included as appendices in the cumulative dissertation.
You must include a statement about your independent research achievements in the dissertation. It should indicate which parts of the publications have been developed and written by you independently. In addition, this declaration must be confirmed by the signature of your supervisor and another co-author for each publication listed.
Please note that proposals for review of the dissertation will also be discussed by the dissertation committee and include this in your timeline for submission of the dissertation. Co-authors should not be proposed for review (except possibly the supervisor).
