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“In two of the four cases in which papers have been retracted, Pangou has written on official GERDIB stationery to the editors involved, taking overall responsibility but putting the blame on either “bad usage of bibliographic review” or on a “junior researcher” co-author. When Science asked about that co-author, Pangou said he had lost track of her; attempts by Science to find the researcher have so far failed.”

One of the most contemptible plagiarism scandals UD has encountered features the same character most of these scandals feature: The Junior Colleague. The eminent senior guy accused of having stolen reams of articles published under his name speaks darkly of an incompetent uncontrollable underling… Can’t recall her name. Don’t know where she is now…

The mythic research assistant is merely one component of the Serge Valentin Pangou story, a story which features a senior scientist tearing through one ecology journal after another (including one published by the notoriously cheesy outfit Elsevier) with articles copied from other sources and co-authored by people as mythical as the Junior Colleague. I mean, the co-authors existed… Pangou had even met them once or twice. But all were surprised to find out they’d authored anything with Pangou. All must also be thrilled that their names are now trashed by association.

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Update: Some of the comments on this page, from Retraction Watch, are of interest.

Margaret Soltan, March 11, 2012 5:13AM
Posted in: plagiarism

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  1. Mike S. Says:

    Of note, five of the papers in question appeared in journals published by International Research Journals, a company that Jeffrey Beall has included in his list of “predatory open access publishers.”

    Oh God, I didn’t realize things were so bad that a list of predatory open access publishers existed already. Silly me.

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