DOCTORAL THESIS DEVELOPMENT

In the process of development of the doctoral thesis, the student will have as interlocutors:

• Doctoral Service in the Student Secretary's Office of the Faculty of Economics and Business Science: in charge of administrative management; from enrollment in a program to the issuance of the Doctoral degree.
• Academic Committee: responsible for the definition, updating, quality and coordination of the program, as well as the progress of research and training and the authorization of the presentation of the thesis.
• Program Coordinator: responsible for the academic management of the program and in charge of resolving doubts and/or queries arising from the program.
• Doctoral student's tutor: responsible for the adequacy of the training and research activity to the principles of the program; tutor and director may coincide.
• Doctoral student's supervisor: he/she is the person in charge of conducting all the research tasks of the doctoral student.

The regulations concerning the development of the doctoral thesis can be found at the following link: regulations.

As stipulated in article 11.3 of R.D. 99/2011, once admitted to the doctoral program, each doctoral student will be assigned by the Academic Committee a tutor, a doctor with accredited research experience, linked to the lines of research of the program, who will be responsible for ensuring the interaction of the doctoral student with the Academic Committee. The Academic Committee, having heard the doctoral student, may modify the appointment of the tutor of each doctoral student at any time during the period of the doctoral program, provided that there are justified reasons.

The doctoral program will organize, after the enrollment process of the new doctoral students, a welcome session in which they will be informed of all the procedures to follow and where they will also be able to meet the members of the academic committee and the professors assigned to the program. In this session, in addition to the training activities, they will be informed about the scholarship and mobility options established in the program.

When the Academic Committee responsible for the Doctoral Program assigns a Thesis Supervisor, the student must register the doctoral thesis through the corresponding form. In addition, the student must submit the document “Documentary Commitment of Supervision of the Doctoral Student”, which establishes the functions of supervision of the tasks for the development of the thesis. Once this document has been signed by the representative of the Academic Committee, the tutor, the supervisor and the doctoral student, a copy will be deposited in the Academic Committee of the program, in the student secretary's office of the center and another copy will remain in the possession of the doctoral student. In the case of changing tutor or supervisor during the thesis, the corresponding form and the Annex of Modification of the Documentary Commitment must be submitted again.

In accordance with the provisions of article 11.4 of the aforementioned royal decree, the academic committee of the program will assign each doctoral candidate a doctoral thesis supervisor who may or may not coincide with the tutor referred to in the previous section. The Academic Committee, having heard the doctoral student, may modify the appointment of the doctoral thesis supervisor for each doctoral student at any time during the period of the doctoral program, provided that there are justified reasons.

Students must fill in the RAPI2 tool all the training activities as well as the indications of quality of the results of the thesis (articles, books or book chapters, presentations at conferences, etc. for more information).

On the dates established by the Doctoral School, the annual evaluation of the progress of the doctoral thesis will be carried out through the Research Plan and Activity Document.

The directors must evaluate the student's progress each academic year using the following form. THE DOCUMENT IS AVAILABLE IN THE VIRTUAL CAMPUS OF THE DOCTORATE PROGRAM IN ADE.

TENURE REGIME, EXTENSIONS AND TEMPORARY WITHDRAWALS

The tenure regime of the program will be in accordance with the tenure rules established by the Doctoral School of the UCM.

Students may request a temporary leave of absence for a maximum of one year in accordance with UCM regulations.

Students may request an extension to complete their doctoral studies in accordance with UCM regulations.

DOCTORAL THESIS DEPOSIT

 

The program follows the procedure for the online deposit of doctoral thesis established by the UCM (Steps 1, 2, 3 and 4).

IMPORTANT: The Academic Committee establishes the following PROCEDURE PRIOR to the START OF PROCEDURE 1, with instructions, documentation and procedure for Doctoral Student, Tutor, and Director(s):

The candidate must SEND to the Academic Committee the following information (see VIRTUAL CAMPUS):

• Final thesis with UCM formatOriginal Turnitin report
• Declaration of authorship and originality thesis
• Published JCR/Scopus/ Q1 or Q2 Fecyt article. In case it is only accepted, it is necessary a certificate from the editor in chief of the journal with the final acceptance.
• Sign the Model 053 thesis deposit form (to be passed to your tutor and director(s) for signature).
• IF IT IS FOR A COMPENDIUM OF ARTICLES (see information at the bottom of this page). Send 3 papers or 2 plus a book chapter.
• IF INTERNATIONAL MENTION: Certificate of the stay with initial and final dates and prior authorization from the Academic Committee (at least 3 months).
• IF INDUSTRIAL MENTION (additional questions)

The tutor and supervisor(s) must send the following information to the Academic Committee (see VIRTUAL CAMPUS):

• Document 1 Thesis Supervisor Report (one document for each existing supervisor).
• Document 2 Thesis Tutor Report
• Closing of activities in Rapi2 (check beforehand that everything is ok and that the student has nothing pending to validate, and sign the Research Plan and Activity Plan) and Signed document of closing of activities according to the model available from the Doctoral Secretary's Office Faculty.
• Form 053 of doctoral thesis deposit, signed by doctoral student, tutor and co-directors.
• Proposal of 4 external evaluators: propose four experts from outside the UCM with “research experience” (at least 1 six-year period of recognized research). Proposal of names, contact and profile in Google or WoS.
  • INTERNATIONAL MENTION THESIS: international (NOT the person who has signed the international research stay of the PhD student) with “research experience” (equivalent to 1 six-year period in Spain). One of these experts could act as an international member of the doctoral thesis tribunal.
• Document 3. Suitability report of each of the proposed members of the thesis committee. Propose to the Academic Committee 10 candidates (fill in suitability reports for each of them) to form part of the future doctoral thesis tribunal, taking into account:
  • They can be retired professors (as long as they have accredited research experience).
  • Gender parity
  • All of them must have at least one six-year research period. If this is not possible due to their position or nationality, it would be their equivalent.4 members of the UCM (2 tenured, 2 substitutes) and 6 external members of the UCM (3 tenured, 3 substitutes).
  • In the case of Theses with INTERNATIONAL MENTION, 2 of the external professors must be international (1 titular, 1 substitute).
  • As a general rule, the professors who have served as external evaluators could be members of the proposed tribunal (one or both). In no case can the professor who hosted the candidate on an international research stay be a member of the panel

Once the Academic Committee reviews and approves the documentation:

• The coordinator sends the doctoral thesis to be evaluated by the two evaluators chosen by the Committee (Document 4).
• These evaluators have a period of 30 calendar days to make their evaluations.
• Both reports will be sent by the coordinator to the doctoral student and tutors-directors so that they can proceed to make the suggested changes. Several possibilities:
  
  • Most favorable and unusual. No changes are proposed. Nothing should be done.
  • Favorable, but with minor changes. The doctoral student has a period of 15 days to make them: (i) modifying the doctoral thesis with the best proposals in another color; and (ii) making a report for the reviewer explaining all the proposed changes to answer his questions. The coordinator then returns it to the reviewers for them to judge the answers. If favorable, they will issue a new favorable report.
  • Unfavorable or Favorable with important changes. The doctoral student will have the necessary time (weeks, months) to address all the proposed changes.

Once this process has been passed, and both reports are positive, the doctoral student may begin STEP 1 (Beginning of the telematic deposit procedure) (Access to telematic deposit must be navigated identified: https://edoctorado.ucm.es/tramite-1-deposito-de-tesis-doctoral). Exceptionally, when the doctoral student has a tight term of permanence in the program, the Academic Committee, after reviewing and approving the documentation submitted, may allow the doctoral student to begin Step 1 in advance. From this moment on, the time limits and deadlines for the student's permanence in our program are PARALYZED.

Subsequently, STEP 2 and STEP 3, with the participation of the doctoral student, the academic secretariat of the Faculty and the Academic Committee (by delegation, the coordinator) and finally STEP 4 from the Doctoral School and the Vice-rectorate of the UCM.
Call for the Defense Ceremony. In case of telematic defense, a special procedure must be followed.
The UCM Doctoral Commission has agreed on February 27, 2024 the following DEPOSIT AND DEFENSE DEADLINES FOR THESIS DEPOSIT AND DEFENSE OF DOCTORAL THESIS FOR STUDENTS WHO EXHAUST PERMANENCY

Requirements for Thesis by compendium of publications:

Doctoral Theses may be submitted in “publications format”, containing at least three publications. The doctoral candidate must have participated as main author in all the publications that compose the Doctoral Thesis. At least two of the three publications that make up the Thesis will have been published either in journals included in the Scimago Journal Rank (SJR), Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Social Sciences Edition and Science Edition, First and Second Quartile of the Fecyt Ranking or in chapters of books published in publishers included in the Scholarly Publishers Indicators (SPI), in this case the publishers must be placed in the first quartile for Spanish publishers or in the first and second for international publishers. At least one of the publications containing the Doctoral Thesis will have been published in journals included in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Social Sciences Edition and Science Edition indexes. All publications should be in journals listed in international reference indexes (Latindex, Emerging Scitation Index, Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List, Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS, UK) Academic Journal Guide, ESSEC Rankings of Journals, National Agency for Scientific Habilitation of Italy, NDS - Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, The Publication Forum of Finland, MIAR University of Barcelona, DICE CSIC ERIH, IN-RECS, RESH, CARHUS+, RECYT-FECYT, ECONLIT, REDIB, DIALNET, CABELL, ROAD) or in books published by publishers included in the Scholarly Publishers Indicators (SPI). The director and tutor of the doctoral student will certify the nature of the contribution of the doctoral student in the publications provided. The collection of publications should always be accompanied by an introduction, including a review of the current state of the subject, the objectives and/or hypotheses, an integrative discussion and conclusions. When a Doctoral Thesis is presented in this format, the permissions of the other authors of the publications included must be provided. The publications included in the thesis must have been accepted prior to the date of submission of the Doctoral Thesis to the Academic Committee, but it is not required that they have been published or scheduled for publication prior to that date. In order to verify the acceptance of the publication, at least the letter of acceptance of the publication by the editors of the journal or book must be attached.