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  • Prof Faces Plagiarism Charge

    Shanghai Daily A university professor is at the center of a plagiarism scandal after he was accused of copying from books written by Western researchers in his doctoral dissertation.Zhu Xueqin, a history professor at Shanghai University, denied the online accusation after a newspaper report about t... READ MORE>>

  • Journals step up plagiarism policing

    Nature 466, 167 (2010), doi:10.1038/466167a Cut-and-paste culture tackled by CrossCheck software. Declan Butler Major science publishers are gearing up to fight plagiarism. The publishers, including Elsevier and Springer, are set to roll out software across their journals that will scan submitted pa... READ MORE>>

  • Plagiarism pinioned

    NATURE/EDITORIAL  doi:10.1038/466159b Published online 07 July 2010 There are tools to detect non-originality in articles, but instilling ethical norms remains essentialIt is both encouraging and disheartening to hear that major science publishers intend to roll out the CrossCheck plagiarism-sc... READ MORE>>

  • Academic corruption undermining higher education: Yau Shing-tung

    By Guo Jiaxue (HK Edition) Updated: 2010-06-02 07:38 In China, the number of published papers in scientific journals are a critical criterion determining a researcher's professional standing and suitability for promotion. Edmond Tang / China Daily Even at China's best universities plagiarism and fa... READ MORE>>

  • A CULTURE OF PLAGIARISM

    Setiono Sugiharto The Jakarta PostPublication Date: 18-02-2010 A recent report on plagiarism implicating a professor from a private university in Indonesia has set a bad precedent for the integrity of academic honesty.Alleged to have published a plagiarised article in this paper, this senior schola... READ MORE>>

  • 'Academic' humiliated U. of Tokyo

    The Yomiuri ShimbunTurkish national Serkan Anilir, recently stripped of the doctorate he obtained from the University of Tokyo over plagiarism and falsifying his resume, used that powerful badge of authority to take advantage not just of the institution that gave him the degree but of other universi... READ MORE>>

  • Tokyo Univ. to crack down on plagiarism in theses

    The Yomiuri ShimbunThe University of Tokyo will overhaul its thesis examination process and throw the book at anyone found to have plagiarized other people's work, according to the university president.The tighter screening and tougher penalties come after the university last month effectively dismi... READ MORE>>

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