December 6, 2011
10 Academic Frauds Who Had Everyone Fooled
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Paper mill websites increase in Turkey
Çağla Pınar Tunçel - Hürriyet Daily NewsAcademics have decried the rise in the number of Turkish “paper mill” websites offering to write theses for students, yet company officials have defended their business, saying they are legal even as scholars warn of the ramifications.“Our company, which is ru... READ MORE>>
Publish-or-perish: Peer review and the corruption of science - The Guardian
David Colquhoun Pressure on scientists to publish has led to a situation where any paper, however bad, can now be printed in a journal that claims to be peer-reviewed.Peer review is the process that decides whether your work gets published in an academic journal. It doesn't work ve... READ MORE>>
Q&A: The Impact of Retractions - TheScientist
Is the pressure of the publish-or-perish mentality driving more researchers to commit misconduct? By Tia Ghose After six articles from a single research group—the laboratory of Naoki Mori at the University of the Ryukyus in Japan—were retracted from Infection and Immunity earlier this year, Ed... READ MORE>>
Is it time for a Retraction Index? - Retraction Watch
We often hear — with data to back the statement — that top-tier journals, ranked by impact factor, retract more papers than lower-tier journals. For example, when Murat Cokol and colleagues compared journals’ retraction numbers in EMBO Reports in 2007, as Nature noted in its cover... READ MORE>>
Turkish Education Minister under Plagiarism Charges - Copy, Shake, and Paste
Debora Weber-WulffThe Nature blog reports that the new Turkish Minister of Education, Ömer Dinçer, lost his title of professor in 2005 on the basis of plagiarism in a textbook published in his name. Turkish Council of Higher Education took back his professorship title, and Dinçer lost his legal appe... READ MORE>>
Contested plagiarism charge on new Turkish government
Alison Abbott German politicians found guilty of plagiarism have seen their careers stumble. First came the forced resignation in March of the German defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg - the University of Bayreuth withdrew his PhD thesis after identifying extensive plagiarism. Other Ge... READ MORE>>
Doctoral Plagiarism Elsewhere - Copy, Shake, and Paste
Plagiarized doctoral theses are not only to be found in Germany. Janet Stemwedel reports on Adventures in Ethics and Science on the case of chemist Bengü Sezen. She links to Chemical & Engineering News with a report on the disseration and three other papers. She quotes:The documents—an investiga... READ MORE>>
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