[IRTalk] Journals requiring thesis disclosure statement?

[Ina Smith]

Dear Hussein,

Thanks for this question. Will have to explore more, but for now, see COPE’s position statement on “Publishing material from theses” which says the thesis should be acknowledged and cited in the publication; several publishers also require disclosure of related outputs (e.g., Frontiers asks authors to disclose related publications and explain added value).

https://publicationethics.org/guidance/cope-position/publishing-material-theses

Hope this helps somewhat.

Kind regards,
Ina
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Dear Colleagues

UCT recently discovered that a local publisher (AOSIS) now wants
explicit disclosure whenever an article is related to a thesis.

see:
https://safpj.co.za/index.php/safpj/pages/view/submission-guidelines#part_2

We have not seen this before.  In fact, we have an old rule that
generally disallows disclosing that an article is related to thesis
research.

It seems reasonable to have links in both directions and we cannot
fathom why the old rule exists.  Could this be to prevent bias or conflicts?

Does any other institution have such a rule?  Has anyone else had to
change rules because of the new AOSIS author declaration?

Regards,
    Hussein Suleman

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Cape Town
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