Monograph with published data
If parts of the results of your planned dissertation have already been published in a scientific journal before you submit your dissertation, here are a few tips on how to proceed in such cases.
Monograph with published data
- You can use already published results that you have generated yourself in your dissertation. However, these results must be marked properly.
- You can also include results contributed by co-authors in your thesis, but you must clearly indicate that these are not your own results! It is your own work that is assessed and not the work of a team.
- Translations must be made freely and not verbatim. Otherwise you could unintentionally create a plagiarized translation.
- The introduction and discussion must be rewritten independently.
- The methods section must be more detailed and go well beyond the description of methods in your previously published manuscripts.
- You can show previously published results in the results section if you mark them accordingly. You should write the results section of your dissertation independently.
- It is normal for the number of matches with published texts to be higher in dissertations based on previously published data compared to completely unpublished results. However, in the case of more than 30% similarities, the supervisor must justify in the statement on the iThenticate report why there should be no suspicion of plagiarism.
- When using unaltered or only slightly altered figures and tables from publications, you must obtain permission from the copyright holder (usually the original publisher), both for use in the printed and in the electronic/online version of the dissertation. Please enclose a copy of the permission with the dissertation.
- You can find further explanations on handling your own, already published data in the citation guidelines of the Faculty of Medicine.