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17.02.11 · 03:15 Uhr

Plagiat

Kategorie: Geistes- & Sozialwissenschaften  ·  Kommentare: 9

Aus aktuellem Anlaß: Beispiele von Plagiaten in wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten.

Kimball Martin hat sich die Mühe gemacht, über einige Jahre ungewöhnliche Besprechungen, z.B. zu Plagiaten, aus den "Math Reviews" auf seiner Webseite zu sammeln. Einige Kostproben:

Marcu, Dvanuct "A note on a theorem on matroids." Comment. Math. Prace Mat. 36 (1996), 167--168.

The author adds three introductory sentences to a paper of G. P. Whittle\ [Discrete Math. 54 (1985), no. 2, 239; MR0791665 (86j:05047)] and changes the word "principal" to "fundamental". He also adds an acknowledgement to the referee but fails to add an acknowledgement to Whittle for writing the original paper.

Choudhary, M. P. "Infinite index property of subgroups in a free group." Vikram Math. J. 22 (2002), 6--12.

This paper is a pure plagiarism. The very few changes from the original paper are quite superficial and do not conceal the theft in any way. The only effect of some small modifications is to make the "results" which are stated here preposterous; this is probably an indication that the "author" has not understood what he has copied and published.

The original paper is [G. N. Arzhantseva, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000), no. 11, 3205--3210; MR1694447 (2001b:20040)].

oder auch (nicht direkt ein Plagiatsfall):
Jean, Maw Ding "Continuous sections of $C\sp{*} $-bundles." Soochow J. Math. 8 (1982), 73--79.

The theorems are obvious or well-known elementary facts about $C^*$-algebra fibre bundles.

Auch beim "Zentralblatt" fallen immer wieder Plagiate auf, die dann bei "rank zero" in der Rubrik Zweitverwerter zweitverwertet werden wie

Bogdan Gheorghe Munteanus "On the law of large numbers for free identically distributed random variables." [Gen. Math. 15, No. 4, 55-68 (2007)

The paper is an almost identical copy of p. 455 and pp. 457-465 of H. Bercovici, V. Pata [Ann. Probab. 24, No.1, 453-465 (1996; Zbl 0862.46036)], an article that is not listed in the bibliography. The author has copied all the results and proofs almost verbatim; he has just added some elementary remarks in doubtful English like "Is know the fact that ℑ(1/z)=-(ℑ z)/(|z|2)." (p. 65).

Li Zhu "Tube domains on antisymmetric matrices and representations of minimal representations." [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 352, No. 2, 846-855 (2009)

The editors of the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications have retracted this paper, since it is a plagiarised copy of H. Seppänen's work that appeared in [Int. J. Math. 19, No.~10, 1247-1268 (2008; Zbl 1157.22005)].

oder gleich drei Veröffentlichungen vom selben Autor aus dem selben Buch abgeschrieben:

1. C. Ciobanu, I. Coltescu, Vanishing results for semisimple Lie algebras. [An. Ştiinţ. Univ. "Ovidius" Constanţa, Ser. Mat. 11, No. 2, 51-56 (2003)].

2. C. Ciobanu, The Lie algebra sl(2) and its representations. [An. Ştiinţ. Univ. "Ovidius" Constanţa, Ser. Mat. 11, No. 1, 55-62 (2003)].

3. C. Ciobanu, Representations of the Lie algebra sl(2). [An. Ştiinţ. Univ. "Ovidius" Constanţa, Ser. Mat. 8, No. 1, 59-66 (2000)].

The paper has been retracted because it has been copied verbatim from the book "Quantum Groups", Sections V.3-V.4, [{\it C. Kassel}, Graduate Texts Math. 155, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York (1995; Zbl 0808.17003)]. We are very sorry that we did not know this before publishing the paper and we express our deep apologies for this situation to the author (C. Kassel), to the Editors of Graduate Texts in Mathematics at Springer Verlag, to our readers and to Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH.

Ist wahrscheinlich auch nicht so einfach, zur Darstellungstheorie der sl(2) noch etwas neues zu schreiben :-)

Auch auf dem ArXiv kommt es natürlich gelegentlich zu Plagiatsfällen. Über einen besonders dreisten berichtete "Ars Technica":

According to Dr. Sarioglu, two of the authors of this paper were graduate students with 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).

This caused these faculty members to go back and examine their publications in detail, at which point the plagiarism became clear. "All they had done was literally take big chunks of others' work using the 'copy and paste' technique," Dr. Sarioglu said, "steal from here and there to cook up an Intro which is basically the same stuff in all their manuscripts, carry out some really trivial calculations such as taking derivatives of some simple functions, and write up the results in the format of a paper."

 

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