Regulations concerning cumulative dissertations in Sociology
The following rules apply for cumulative dissertations:
The affidavit , which is handed with the delivery of your dissertation, will be added by a supplementary sheet . On this paper, the doctoral candidate will state the following:
- A listing of all the articles in the dissertation
- For every article: the information about the co-author, if available
- For every article with a co-author: the exact description of your own input
In addition, there are a few extra rules applying to the subject of sociology:
3 publications in professional journals,
- At least one of them has to be in an anglophone, international, visible and high-ranking journal
- The rest has to be published in either “ZfS” (Zeitschrift für Soziologie/ journal for sociology) or “KZfSS” (Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie/ Cologne Journal for Sociology and Social psychology)
All publications must be released or definitely approved for publication.
The following rules apply for cumulative promotions:
- A single-authorship can be replaced by a co-authorship
- 2 single-authorships can be replaced by 3 co-authorships
- At least one publication has to be single-authorship
- It is not allowed for co-authors to be consultants
- The doctoral candidate has to specifically name his own work, if submitting a publication in co-authorship
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Latest Revision:
2021-07-30