Regulations for the presentation and reading of theses

Chapter III of Title II of the Regulations for Official Doctoral Studies at the University of La Laguna regulates the procedures for the presentation and defense of the doctoral thesis. It also regulates the requirements that a thesis must meet in order to include on its front the mention of "International Doctorate", the mention of "Industrial Doctorate", the modality of thesis by compendium of publications and the joint supervision regime in the doctoral thesis. The regulations are available at institutional website of the universityOn the other hand, the University of La Laguna annually announces its extraordinary doctoral awards, which it informs about through circulars and by publishing the call and regulations in the institutional website.

The above diagram summarizes the documentation and the different agents involved in the presentation and defense of the Doctoral Thesis. The article of the Regulation that affects this process in its different phases. In the page about Doctoral Thesis of the EDEP all the general aspects that order the courts, deposit, mentions of international doctorate and industrial, thesis by compendium, international joint supervision and other aspects related to the defense. The specific aspects of the I3MA doctoral program are detailed below:

• PhD thesis: At least one JCR publication is required to authorize the defense.
• Thesis Tribunal: All members, as well as the thesis director, are required to have at least one six-year research experience (or equivalent merits)
• Thesis by compendium: At least three publications are required, either articles in scientific journals listed in the Journal Citations Reports (JCR) or communications to conferences indexed in the GII-GRIN-SCIE (GGS); or two publications, either articles in a JCR journal in quartiles Q1 or Q2, or communications to GGS Class 1 conferences, and a third publication in a scientific journal indexed in Scopus or communication to a GGS Class 2 or 3 conference. In any case, they must have been published during the doctoral student's training period.