The institute I am studying at has added the following requirement recently:
A PhD scholar must publish two papers in his/her corresponding field in SCI journals.
This means that a student cannot get PhD without two SCI rated papers. To the best of my knowledge, novelty is a mandate for such journals; hence, novelty has became mandatory for a student to get PhD in my institute.
In this context, I have the following query: Why is novelty mandatory for a PhD degree?
Consider a scenario in which a student is ambitious and wants to do research on an open problem or famous unsolved problem in his/her field. The student cannot attempt to research such a topic since research may be locally saturated, and he/she cannot come up with a novel idea. Does the rule not restrict the research on such problems? I can see the alternatives like tutorial papers, survey papers, etc., but some of these require only highly experienced geeks.
Note: Assume that neither the PhD student nor the PhD supervisor is an extraordinary person in that particular field.
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