A thesis was never the approximation of a PhD (at least in my field of Computer science). The three novel published (or in submission) works that made up the thesis were. Peer review (at strong conferences!) is the bar that remains to keep a student from doing this.
A thesis was never the approximation of a PhD (at least in my field of Computer science). The three novel published (or in submission) works that made up the thesis were. Peer review (at strong conferences!) is the bar that remains to keep a student from doing this.