A law researcher who has falsely claimed to have been affiliated with several institutions has lost eight more publications, bringing his retraction total to 31 and earning him a spot in the top 20 of our leaderboard.
The most recent retractions for Dimitris Liakopoulos include The Regulation of Transnational Mergers in International and European Law, an entire book he co-authored. They also include three papers from Homa Publica and two from Lex et Scientia International Journal. An example:
The Editorial Board informs you that, following an intimation sent to the journal by Mrs. Chiara Amalfitano, professor of European Union Law at the University of Milan, the Ethics Commission of the University “Nicolae Titulescu” established that the study “Legal basis and ‘transversal’ interpretation of the ultimate reforms of the European Union jurisdictional system”, published by Mr. Dimitris Liakopoulos in LESIJ no. 2/2018, presents substantial takeovers from the study “La recente proposta di riforma dello Statuto della Corte di giustizia dell’Unione europea: molti dubbi e alcuni possibili emendamenti”, published in Italian by the author of the intimation in the journal Federalismi, September 2018. Also the Ethics Commission established that the author claimed, Mr Dimitris Liakopoulos, had published the study under false academic affiliation. In this context, the Ethics Commission recommended withdrawing the study mentioned in the contents of LESIJ Journal no. 2/2018, recommendation to which the editorial board acquiesced. At the same time, the decision to withdraw the study in question was communicated to the databases in which LESIJ is indexed. On this occasion, we express once again our firm commitment to the values of correctness and strict observance of the deontology of scientific research.
Likaopoulous, as we’ve reported, claims in papers and online biographies to have published more than 600 articles. He also claims that he has taught at Columbia Law School, Stetson University and Tufts University.. But Tufts said that he had never been affiliated there, and journals have found other false assertions, along with plagiarism.
Following our posts, and previous requests for comment, one of our co-founder’s employers, and a journal where he has co-authored a paper, received incoherent emails stating– falsely — that he did not have a degree he earned. Attached to at least one of those emails was a letter purportedly from a registrar at the relevant university. It, too, was faked.
We anticipate that if that should happen again, our employers and other associates will treat it with the gravity it deserves.
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“Following our posts, and previous requests for comment, one of our co-founder’s employers, and a journal where he has co-authored a paper, received incoherent emails stating– falsely — that he did not have a degree he earned. Attached to at least one of those emails was a letter purportedly from a registrar at the relevant university. It, too, was faked.”
Looking forward to watching this play out. You have helped uncover multiple kooks, some of whom might play dirty in response.
The emails falsely stated that he did not have a degree that he, in fact, has? That’s a twist.
“He” refers to “one of our co-founders” earlier in the sentence, as in me.
I think it means falsely claiming that one of the folks on this site does not have their earned qualifications (which would be both irrelevant and the pettiest form of attempted smearing)
Correct on all counts.
Just building on the comments above, can I clarify who ‘he’ is being referred to in that second last paragraph. I too was a little confused initially assuming the subject was still Mr Liakopoulos.
“He” refers to “one of our co-founders” earlier in the sentence, as in me.
Th- whole fake-affiliations and fake-degree farce, and the impact of the science involved, is fatefully reminiscent of Kissinger’s observation about the viciousness of academic fights being inversely proportional to the height of the respective stakes
I don’t see any science involved in this issue.