Public Defense

Our Doctoral Program has its specific regulations regarding:

• The writing of the thesis,
• The Thesis Defense Committees,
• The Defense of the thesis

The University of Malaga doctoral regulations can be found at the following link (Titles 4, 5 and 6). For further information, please contact the School of Doctoral Studies (doctorado@uma.es).

All the paperwork for submission throughout the Program is submitted using the DAD, an application that connects students with the tutors and supervisors and allows saving a great deal of time.

The Doctoral Program in Economics and Business requires the students to upload to the DAD platform, apart from all the documents required by the UMA, the up-to-date Report about Research Activities (Informe de Actividades de Investigación) that can be found in the students hall of the virtual campus.

Finally, to proceed with the defense of the Doctoral Thesis, the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program has agreed that doctoral students must meet the following requirement:

•  All doctoral students enrolled for the first time in the program before the 2021/2022 academic year must have published (or have accepted for publication) at least one article in any journal included in the Journal Citation Reports, JCR (SCI or SSCI) derived from the investigations carried out during the completion of the Doctoral Thesis. 
• All doctoral students enrolled for the first time in the program from the 2021/2022 academic year on must have published (or have been accepted for publication) at least one article, derived from the research carried out during the completion of the Doctoral Thesis, in any journal included in the Journal Citation Reports, JCR (SCI or SSCI), except those included in the worst group of journals with atypical behavior (black group) in the report Bibliometric analysis and impact of Open-Access publishers in Spain published by ANECA, whether they are open access or subscription journals.

It is very important that in such paper(s), the affiliation of the student must include the Doctoral Program of Economy and Business of the University of Málaga,  and the student must be the first or the second author.