Will Academic Publication Improve the Quality of Doctoral Dissertation?

Abstract

This article employs the regression analysis on the relation between the quality of doctoral dissertation and the number and quality of academic publication during the doctoral study as well as the time of first publication. The results indicate that the more the number of academic articles published in core journals, the higher the quality of the articles and the later the time of first academic publication, the more likely the Ph.D. candidates are to write high-quality dissertations.