Centre for Postgraduate Studies (CPS)
PUBLICATION REQUIREMENT
Based on Postgraduate Regulation (Revised 2022), all Ph.D. students are required to meet the standard criteria of publication at all Centres of Studies, based on the Publication Equivalence (PE) as follows:
| Master’s Degree by Mixed Mode | Master’s Clinical Specialist Training (MQF Level 7) | Master’s Degree by Research | Doctoral/ Ph.D. Clinical Specialist Training (MQF Level 8) | Ph.D. by Mixed Mode/ Industrial | Ph.D. by Research |
| Not applicable | Minimum PE 0.3 | Minimum PE 0.6 | Minimum PE 0.7 | Minimum PE 1 | Minimum PE is 2 (At least 1 PE from indexed journal) |
For Kulliyyah of Engineering, the postgraduate students are required to meet the standard criteria of publication, based on the Publication Equivalence (PE) as follows:
| Master’s Degree by Mixed Mode | Master’s Degree by Research | Ph.D. by Mixed Mode/ Industrial | Ph.D. by Research |
| Minimum PE is 0.3 | Minimum PE is 1 (1PE from indexed journal) | Minimum PE 1 | Minimum PE is 2 (At least 2 PE from indexed journal) |
In addition to the flexibility for the type of publication mentioned above, a new matric for publication type and PE is proposed as follows:
| Type of Publications | PE Value |
| Indexed Journal | 1 |
| Non-indexed Journal | 0.7 |
| Indexed Conference Proceeding | 0.6 |
| Poster, non-indexed conference proceedings or any publication recognised by the Centre of Studies | 0.3 |
Note on Publication criteria for postgraduate students with Matric Number ‘G141xxx – G173xxx’
All PhD students are required to have at least one (1) paper accepted in a journal prescribed by their respective Centre of Studies upon submission of their thesis. This paper is to be based on their thesis.