posted by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
purplecthulhu at 02:27pm on 07/06/2007
purplecthulhu at 02:27pm on 07/06/2007There was a discussion over lunch about the number of references in PhD theses.
Someone was saying they had 45 or so and wondered how appropriate that was. I've just counted the number of references in the paper I'm working on at the moment (its large, at 27 pages, but is definitely not a PhD thesis). There are 76 references.
I realise things are different in different fields, but was surprised that my reference count here was already so high.
OK - end to academic pretentiousness. Now back to your normally scheduled memage...
Someone was saying they had 45 or so and wondered how appropriate that was. I've just counted the number of references in the paper I'm working on at the moment (its large, at 27 pages, but is definitely not a PhD thesis). There are 76 references.
I realise things are different in different fields, but was surprised that my reference count here was already so high.
OK - end to academic pretentiousness. Now back to your normally scheduled memage...
There are 26 comments on this entry. (Reply.)