A gateway to a research career: MSc thesis and scientific publications

Our Guidelines for the MSc thesis provide general information on how to prepare the final work of your career. The research activity may have the opportunity to be published by scientific and technical journals, depending on the quality of the student's career and the scientific relevance of the graduation thesis.

The Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry of the University of Florence has a significant editorial activity, as it hosts the following international journals:

• Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development (JAEID)
• Advances in Horticultural Science (AHS)
• Phytopathologia Mediterranea

 

Examples of scientific papers derived from research activities in the frame of graduation thesis:

• Using AHP and PROMETHEE Multicriteria Decision-Making Approaches to Rank Available Fruit Crops for Orchard Expansion in Nangarhar, Afghanistan (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10341-023-00902-y). Student: Mehdi Hassan Muhammadi; paper from a thesis conducted in Italy on the future of Afghan fruitculture.
• Modeling-based performance assessment of an indigenous macro-catchment water harvesting technique (Marab) in the Jordanian Badia (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ldr.4838). Student: Niccolò Renzi; paper from a thesis conducted in Jordan on a macro-catchment Water Harvesting system in collaboration with ICARDA.
• Genetic purity of cacao Criollo from Honduras Is revealed by SSR molecular markers (https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/11/2/225) Student: Erick Ordones; paper from a thesis performed in Honduras and Italy.
• Berberis burruyacuensis O. R. Dantur, S. Radice, E. Giordani, A. Papini sp. nov. (Berberidaceae): a new species (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10722-020-01096-y) Student: Samuele Pedrazzani; paper from a thesis performed in Argentina and Italy.