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Friday, August 10, 2007
40 Papers in 22 Months Eric, a reader, forwards to UD this thoughtful article about plagiarism and falsification of data in scientific papers. The central story involves some Turkish graduate students: '[The] graduate students [had] a prodigious track record of publication: over 40 papers in a 22-month span. Dr. Karasu, who sat on the panel that evaluated their oral exams, became suspicious when their knowledge of physics didn't appear to be consistent with this level of output. Discussions with Dr. Tekin revealed that the students also did not appear to possess the language skills necessary for this level of output in English-language journals (METU conducts its instruction in English). |