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Ph.D. Program Guidebook 2007-2008
CHAPTER 5 – CO-AUTHORSHIP
FACULTY CO-AUTHOR
A paper co-authored with faculty members at the University of Chicago or elsewhere may
not be used to satisfy the curriculum paper or second-year finance paper requirements, in
most dissertation areas. In addition to the below, see dissertation area requirements to
determine if there are any additional area specific requirements.
Faculty co-authorship of dissertation research is permitted in some dissertation areas, as
outlined below. Where allowed, students should always receive explicit permission from
their dissertation chair that co-authored components are acceptable.
Accounting, Econometrics and Statistics, Economics, and Finance – The policy of these
areas is that work co-authored with faculty members at the University of Chicago or
elsewhere may not be used to satisfy the dissertation requirement.
Managerial and Organizational Behavior and Marketing – Dissertations in MOB and
Marketing may include components that are co-authored, at the discretion of the dissertation
committee. Dissertation proposals must clearly indicate which portion(s) of the dissertation
will be done in collaboration with a co-author, and which will be done with the student as
sole author. For the proposal to be approved, the committee must agree that in the proposed
work (a) the student’s contribution to the co-authored portions is substantial, and (b) soleauthored
work constitutes a substantial portion of the dissertation. At the defense, approval
depends on the committee’s agreement that those conditions have been met, and on their
judgment of the quality of both the single-authored component and the student’s contribution
to the co-authored components.
Management Science/Operations Management and Organizations and Markets – The
policy of these areas is that co-authored papers based on the dissertation are allowed, as long
as a substantial portion of the dissertation can be identified as being solely the work of the
student.
STUDENT CO-AUTHOR
A paper co-authored with other GSB Ph.D. students may be used to satisfy the Curriculum
Paper requirement and the First Year Summer Paper, under special circumstances. Finance
students may not co-author a curriculum paper (or finance paper) with another student.
Work co-authored with other students at the University of Chicago or elsewhere may not be
used to satisfy the dissertation requirement. “Special circumstances” exist if sufficient
synergies result from more than one student working on the paper because of data collection
efforts, data analysis efforts, etc., and should, therefore, result in a higher quality paper than is
acceptable for a sole-authored paper.
The approval process is as follows:
(1) The students petition the Ph.D. Office, in writing, for approval to co-author their
paper. The petition must describe their research topic and the synergies that result
from more than one student working on the paper.
(2) The petition is reviewed by the Director of the Ph.D. Program and forwarded to the
appropriate Ph.D. Area Advisor for review.
(3) After receiving the review, the Director will respond to the student.
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