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“Proven plagiarism” extracts paper on keeping teeth healthy in outer space

Aeronautic dentistry seems like a fairly unique field, but a review article about keeping teeth healthy in outer space has been retracted from the International Journal of Stomatology & Occlusion Medicine for not being quite unique enough. “Aeronautic dentistry: an upcoming branch,” a review article, appears to have lifted pieces of other works “verbatim and without … Continue reading “Proven plagiarism” extracts paper on keeping teeth healthy in outer space

Plagiarism identified in computer face recognition paper

A paper about computerized facial recognition has been pulled because “most of the contents of this article is plagiarized from an article under consideration elsewhere,” according to the retraction statement. Applications of computer face recognition include surveillance and criminal identification. The authors propose a new method for picking out facial features in the original 2013 article, “Pose … Continue reading Plagiarism identified in computer face recognition paper

Author from China blames translation company for plagiarism in retracted vascular paper

Do we need a “throwing vendors under the bus” category here at Retraction Watch? Earlier this year, we reported on the retraction of a paper because of sloppy work by an outside lab. Now, we have the story of a retraction for “negligence” by a translator. Specifically, the author says the passages shared between the … Continue reading Author from China blames translation company for plagiarism in retracted vascular paper

You can’t make this stuff up: Plagiarism guideline paper retracted for…plagiarism

This could be an April Fools’ joke. But it isn’t. In what can only be described as an ironic twist, the Indian Journal of Dermatology is retracting a paper that presents guidelines on plagiarism for…wait for it… Plagiarism. Here’s the notice:

Castle made of sand: Self-plagiarism washes away paper on dune particles

A group of geologists in China have lost their paper on the aerodynamics of sand particles because the article was mashed together from previous publications. The article, “The influence of sand diameter and wind velocity on sand particle lift-off and incident angles in the windblown sand flux,” appeared in the May 2013 issue of Sedimentary … Continue reading Castle made of sand: Self-plagiarism washes away paper on dune particles

Warning: plagiarism may be hazardous to your safety paper

A paper on making emergency evacuations more efficient at facilities that handle hazardous materials has been retracted for plagiarism. According to the Process Safety and Environmental Protection retraction notice, the 2013 paper, by a group at Tsinghua University in Beijing, plagiarized part of a 2007 article by Greek researchers called “Modeling emergency evacuation for major hazard industrial sites.” (The 2007 article has … Continue reading Warning: plagiarism may be hazardous to your safety paper

Weekend reads: Dissertations for sale, spurious impact factors, the roots of plagiarism

This week at Retraction Watch featured the retraction of yet another spoof article, and the temporary shutdown of a journal. Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Biofuels paper burned by “improper citation methods” – ie, plagiarism

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology (CREST) has retracted a paper on biofuels for “improper citation methods.” Given the journal’s track record, we’re guessing this is just another euphemism for plagiarism. (Also because the retraction notice flags a “breach of warranties made by the authors with respect to originality.”) In 2013, CREST retracted two papers … Continue reading Biofuels paper burned by “improper citation methods” – ie, plagiarism

Math paper subtracted for plagiarism

ISPACS’ Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Application, whose website promises “very fast publication,” has pulled a paper for ripping off an article posted on arXiv.org. Their plagiarism wasn’t exactly subtle. Here’s the abstract from the paper on arXiv.org: We introduce and study the class of weak almost limited operators. We establish a characterization of pairs of Banach … Continue reading Math paper subtracted for plagiarism

A unicorn: Journal publishes euphemism-free plagiarism notice

It’s always nice when a journal editor actually uses words the way they’re meant to be used instead of employing euphemisms. In 2009, the African Journal of Biomedical Research published an article on the differences in heart rates when people ran backwards versus forwards. Unfortunately, five years later, the journal found out the paper was a … Continue reading A unicorn: Journal publishes euphemism-free plagiarism notice