The point is that what you did during your master studies is generally considered a part from your duties as a student. The requirements of your master's program involved doing research and publishing articles, with or without a scholarship from your lab or professor. For example here in Canada, international students do the same with a study permit, but if they need to do an internship in another place, they need a work permit to be able to work there. Here in Canada a scholarship is generally tax free because is not considered as a salary, but in other country students pay taxes and contribute.
If you think you can convince an ircc officer that what you did was a job and you can supply a letter of employment, salary slips, and all the details needed, so go ahead.
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