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An international electronic thesis system is proposed to provide ready access to doctoral dissertations and ensure uniform standards. To establish common criteria, the publication-based Dutch doctoral degree system was assessed and compared with studies of other national systems. Current Dutch doctoral theses in biomedical fields were of a high standard. 93% of theses were based on published work. The median number of papers per thesis was four, with five authors per paper. The candidate was the key author on 84%. Representative journals of publication ranked in the top quartile of theScience Citation Index with a median rank of 241.
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Breimer, L.H., Breimer, D.D. The CED—le DEC: Common European doctorate, or doctorate Europeen commune or dissertations on the internet. Scientometrics 35, 347–353 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02016905
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