Wikidata:WikiCite/Theses and dissertations

This page summarizes efforts to collect and structure data about theses and dissertations in Wikidata. The project is part of WikiCite.

Instance of thesis (Q1266946) and its subclasses.

Use of these classes should be avoided in favour of a more specific subclass.

• thesis (Q1266946): general term for a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree; Use Q187685 for PhD thesis or Q1385450 for dissertation in general
• dissertation (Q1385450): written document submitted in order to obtain an academic degree; e.g. doctoral thesis, habilitation, etc

• doctoral thesis (Q187685): document submitted in support of candidature for a doctorate
• Doctor of Science thesis (Q51282999): academic thesis
• habilitation thesis (Q1414362): type of thesis necessary for teaching in German universities
• masters with honours thesis (Q111476177): thesis produced for the degree of master's with honours
• master's thesis (Q1907875): thesis submitted in support of candidature for a master's degree
• bachelor's with honors thesis (Q111475835): thesis produced for the degree of bachelor's with honors
• bachelor's thesis (Q798134): thesis reporting a research project undertaken as part of an undergraduate course of education leading to a bachelor's degree
• postgraduate diploma thesis (Q111475860): thesis produced for a postgraduate diploma
• diploma thesis (Q30749496): type of thesis
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See Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData for general properties for bibliographic items. The following list of additional properties is preliminary with details to be discussed.

On thesis item

• dissertation submitted to (P4101)  
• reviewed by (P4032)  
• thesis committee member (P9161)  
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On person item

• academic degree (P512)  
• conferred by (P1027)  
• doctoral advisor (P184)  
• doctoral student (P185)  
• student (P802)  
• student of (P1066)  
• educated at (P69)  
• ...

• Theses.fr person ID (P4285)  
• Ecole des chartes thesis abstract ID (P4465)  
• EThOS thesis ID (P4536)  
• OCLC control number (P243)  
• Handle ID (P1184)  
• DOI (P356)  
• ProQuest document ID (P6572)  
• ...

• New Zealand Thesis Project data schema
• University of Washington Application Profile
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• A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud (Q28971627)
• Properties of expanding universes (Q42307084)
• X-ray crystallography and the chemistry of the sterols (Q50560072)
• Double diffraction dissociation at large momentum transfer (Q50560459)
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• http://www.ndltd.org/
• http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/
• https://oatd.org/
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• Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData/Theses by institution
• User:DrThneed/All theses dashboard (theses by type rather than by institution)

• Wikidata:WikiProject University degrees
• Wikidata:WikiProject Higher education
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