August 22, 2007

Plagiarism at arXiv - Ars Mathematica

A reader tipped me off to this article in Ars Technica about an egregious case of plagiarism uncovered at arXiv. At least two people, grad students at Middle East Technical University (METU), created papers in physics by splicing together existing papers. The plagiarism was uncovered by the faculty at METU. >>>

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