Since the State Council issued the "Overall Plan for Deepening the Reform of Education Evaluation in the New Era" in 2020, universities in China have started to reform the requirements for publishing postgraduate theses, from canceling the requirements for publishing master's theses to graduation, to canceling the requirements for doctoral candidates, and even on 2 1, some universities canceled the requirements for publishing doctoral theses.

Of course, the situation of canceling the requirement of paper publication varies greatly among different disciplines and majors. It can be said that the tolerance of paper publishing in China has been increasing year by year in recent years. If we expand the scope of choice to foreign countries, we can find that most foreign universities do not put published papers in the "required" column of doctoral application requirements.

Four characteristics of academic papers:

1, academic.

It refers to the specialization and systematization of research and discussion, taking a professional problem in the scientific field as the research object. From the content, academic papers are professional; From the perspective of language expression, many academic papers use professional terms, charts and symbols to express their contents, and their readers are mainly professional peers.

Therefore, in order to express academic issues concisely, accurately and normatively, this article will involve more technical terms.

2. scientific.

It means that the content of research and discussion should be accurate, the thinking should be rigorous and the reasoning should be logical. The author is required to proceed from objective reality, without personal likes and dislikes, prejudice and subjective imagination, and draw practical conclusions on the basis of correlation.

3. innovation.

It requires the author to have his own unique opinions and put forward new ideas and viewpoints. Innovation is the life of scientific research and the scientific value of academic papers lies in innovation.

Innovative performance refers to new discoveries, inventions and theories that fill gaps, develop, improve and innovate on the basis of inheritance, put forward their own independent opinions in different opinions, overturn some conclusions of predecessors, and creatively synthesize existing materials.

4. Theoretically.

It refers to the theoretical nature of the author's thinking, the theoretical nature of the conclusion and the argumentative nature expressed in the paper. Different from general argumentative papers, academic papers must have their own theoretical argumentation, not just listing materials and documents, but on the basis of analyzing and studying a large number of facts, materials and documents, the perceptual knowledge is raised to rational knowledge.