From 1960 to 1984, geographic scientific journals reviewed a great number of theses. Such writings even constituted the main written discourse about the thesis. In addition to their functional aspect, that is to give summaries of long and sometimes inaccessible works, they represented a typical genre of scientific writing. They were a real framework for a discourse on the thesis, corresponding to what the scientific community was expecting in terms of either substance or form. This discourses thus played a regulatory role. Secondarily, French geography underwent a paradigm shift from 1960 to 1984. How did these reviews support this change ?