Own regulations

Criteria to be eligible for the modality established in article 4.1. of the Regulations on the presentation and defence of doctoral theses at the UVa - Thesis as a compendium of publications.

The Academic Committee of the Programme agreed, at its meeting of 19 December 2016, that the three contributions submitted must consist of at least:

  • Option A): three articles from journals included in the "Journal Citation Reports (Social Sciences Edition)", "Journal Citation Reports (Science Edition)" or "Arts and Humanities Citation Index" listings of the "Web of Science" or in the Scopus - Scimago Journal Rank- (SJR) listings.
  • Option B): An article published in a journal with the FECYT quality seal or included in the Thomson Reuters Emerging Source Citation Index list may be used. If this is the case for one of the contributions, the other two articles must be included in the lists listed in option A) and at least one of them must have been published in at least one of the first three quartiles of the lists included in the Web of Science.