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by DrScientist 1 day ago
> Yes - my wife’s advisor literally told her that the goal should be getting as close as you could to stapling your published papers together with an introduction.

Indeed - in fact some countries ( I think Scandinavian ) do exactly this - the equivalent to a thesis is simply your publications.

Has it's Pro's and cons - you can learn a lot as a scientist but be unlucky in not having an publishable results ( as the answers to your scientific questions were either 'no' [1] or somebody scooped you ).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...