Assessment Criteria and Documentation

 

The Academic and Quality Committee will propose to the Postgraduate Committee the minimum quality criteria for a doctoral thesis to be eligible for submission. Once approved by the Doctoral School, these criteria will be published on the website of the corresponding programme.

The criteria referred to will be applied to theses that have been developed in at least one academic year and have obtained a positive evaluation.

Respecting the criteria established by each academic and quality committee, it must be required that, during the process of writing the doctoral thesis, the doctoral student has generated quality contributions directly related to her/his thesis work.

Quality contributions are those that can be assessed as such, in accordance with the quality criteria of ANECA in each area, as established by the corresponding academic committee, as well as the specific assessments (ordinary and extraordinary) of the CNEAI. When ANECA or CNEAI do not establish in detail scores of less than 1 point for each publication, the academic and quality committee will define the corresponding scores that allow each contribution to be assigned a value of 0, 0.5, 0.75 or 1 point.

The assessment criteria referred to in the previous section will be published on the website of the doctoral programme. These are requirements for contributions submitted to support a thesis:

a) That they have been published, or accepted for publication, display or reproduction, after the date of enrolment of the PhD student in the programme.

b) That the University of Malaga is mentioned in them, thanks to the affiliation of the person supervising the thesis and/or the PhD student.

c) That the doctoral student appears as first or second author. Only in truly exceptional cases may the corresponding academic and quality committee, in view of the justifications presented and with the approval of the Postgraduate Committee, authorise the doctoral student to appear in a position subsequent to the second. This will not apply in disciplines in which alphabetical order in authorship or order by institutions is customary, in which case the doctoral student will justify her/his contribution and the relationship of the contribution to the thesis.

For branches of knowledge in which the ANECA and/or the CNEAI recognise extraordinary criteria or assessments other than publications, the corresponding academic and quality committee shall submit to the Postgraduate Commission, for its approval, the proposal of complements to the grading criteria. These complements shall not exceed half of the criteria.