Two journals have retracted five papers by a researcher in Taiwan who evidently took the notion of teamwork a little too liberally.
The first notice is one we missed when it came out in 2012 in the British Journal of Educational Technology. The article, “Learning in troubleshooting of automotive braking system: a project-based teamwork approach,” was written by Janus Liang, of the Yung-Ta Institute of Technology and Commerce in Taiwan. It has yet to be cited, according to Thomson Scientific’s Web of Knowledge.
According to the notice: Continue reading Five plagiarism retractions appear for Taiwan engineer