Timeline for What happens if a paper with same topic gets published while writing undergraduate thesis?
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| Sep 13, 2017 at 1:57 | comment | added | nengel | Not by the regulations, but depending on the topic it might make it harder to grade for you if the student becomes aware of it. You could think about how you would grade the thesis if you had given the hypothetical paper to the student as part of the assignment/review of the state of the art. | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 13:26 | comment | added | UTF-8 | It's true that some Bachelor's theses in CS in Germany are just implementation. However, a lot of them aren't. They are a kind of "Figure this out." tasks or "We got this going so far. Can find a way to improve this aspect of it?" tasks. Then the student has to come up with a solution to the problem, sometimes with no implementation whatsoever. The topic I initially wanted would've had implementation in addition to both of the kinds of tasks mentioned above, but the topic I'm probably going to write about now is purely theoretical. Would publication of a solution constitute a problem? | |
| Sep 6, 2017 at 8:05 | comment | added | user64845 | In the hard sciences bachelor theses in germany and austria are research in most cases but they are usually part of a project of a PhD/postDoc. But the bachelor thesis doesn't necessarely needs to be published so there wouldn't be a problem if during the time someone publishes the same work. | |
| Sep 6, 2017 at 6:56 | comment | added | nengel | I agree! The last line was only meant for the examples I gave that had no research components whatsoever (although the last one does have some room for the things you mention). It is to say there's a good reason why a larger superset of things that are mandatory for research are not B.Sc requirements. Novelty in particular is probably the least important of those research things! | |
| Sep 6, 2017 at 6:41 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | ... by juxtaposing and justifying the developed (conceptually non-novel) solution with what is found in the literature, by evaluating the solution the same way a novel technique would be evaluated, and so on. Research-wise, the goal is to show that the student has the methodological skills to perform research, not that they have some good luck and happen to find an interesting novel concept just at the right time during the few months while they are writing their final thesis, in a topic that is more or less imposed by their task and that they may have no prior knowledge about. | |
| Sep 6, 2017 at 6:40 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | "If the B.Sc. student has no ambitions for an academic career" - I would actually even drop that restriction. The point of research aspects before starting doing actual research during a PhD candidacy is to become familiar with research methodologies. Whether you do that to produce novel, important results, or by reproducing existing research is largely irrelevant in that respect. Accordingly, BSc/MSc theses typically are not required to produce publication-worthy novel results, but to feature a certain degree of research orientation, e.g. by presenting everything in a structured write-up, ... | |
| Sep 6, 2017 at 6:27 | history | answered | nengel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |