Submission of survey paper and graduation thesis almost in same time
This is ultimately up to the journal to decide - so you should contact them/consult their guidelines. I cannot imagine any scientific journal treating a thesis (PhD or MSc) as a prior publication, but this might be field dependent. In any case, you should explicitly write in your paper &quot;This chapter is based on the author's PhD thesis to be defended (...)&quot; or something to this effect, and I would think that this will be enough for the journal.