The following minimum standards must be met in order to be awarded a doctorate:
1. publication as first author, sole author or corresponding author of at least three scientific articles containing results of the thesis content, of which:
(a) at least one article must be published in an ISI (Clarivate Analytics) rated journal with IF ≥ 0.5;
b) at least two articles must be published in journals indexed in the PubMed database.
