Search Results for: plagiarism

Chutzpah: Authors blame PLOS ONE for failing to find plagiarism in paper on Botulinum toxin

Holy Chutzpah, Batman! A team of researchers in India has retracted their 2012 paper in PLoS One on botulinum toxin for plagiarism — while blaming the journal for failing to use its “soft wares” to catch the plagiarism. The article, “Small-Molecule Quinolinol Inhibitor Identified Provides Protection against BoNT/A in Mice,” was written by a group … Continue reading Chutzpah: Authors blame PLOS ONE for failing to find plagiarism in paper on Botulinum toxin

Journal retracts two chemistry papers for plagiarism

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation has retracted a pair of articles by a group of chemists from Iran and the United States after finding evidence of plagiarism in the papers. The researcher team included authors from Islamic Azad University, Ferdowski University of Mashhad and, perhaps somewhat incongruously, Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. … Continue reading Journal retracts two chemistry papers for plagiarism

Your bad: Journal yanks paper for plagiarism and duplication, and points fingers

Here’s a warning to would-be plagiarizers: Don’t submit to the journal Molecules unless you have no problem being called out by name when you’re busted. Consider: The journal is retracting a paper it published earlier this year after learning that the article contained verbatim text — and lots of it — from previously published papers. … Continue reading Your bad: Journal yanks paper for plagiarism and duplication, and points fingers

The one that got away: Plagiarism cuts line on fish stock paper

A pair of researchers in India has lost a paper in Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries for lifting chunks of text from other sources. The article, “Advancements in morphometric differentiation: a review on stock identification among fish populations,” appeared in last March from scientists at the National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources in Lucknow. … Continue reading The one that got away: Plagiarism cuts line on fish stock paper

A new plagiarism euphemism: “language from already published sources without using proper citation methods”

A recent issue of Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology (CREST) adds a new euphemism for plagiarism to our rapidly growing list. There are two retractions in the issue of the Taylor & Francis journal. One is for “Remediation of Heavy Metal Contaminated Soils: An Overview of Site Remediation Techniques,” by a group from … Continue reading A new plagiarism euphemism: “language from already published sources without using proper citation methods”

Ask Retraction Watch: Is this plagiarism?

With this post, we’re going to try a new feature: Ask Retraction Watch. What we really mean by that is ask Retraction Watch’s readers, who time and time again have shared their expertise and made us smarter. So if you have questions you’d like posed in this space, find our contact info here. Here goes. … Continue reading Ask Retraction Watch: Is this plagiarism?

Irony alert: Authors lose paper in loss prevention journal for plagiarism

If it seems that we write “irony alert” often, well, can you blame us? The Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries (we’ll call it JLPPI for short) has retracted a paper it published earlier this year for plagiarism from multiple sources. The article, “FTA vs. Tripod-Beta, which seems better for the analysis of … Continue reading Irony alert: Authors lose paper in loss prevention journal for plagiarism

Journal retracts a 24-year-old sociology paper for plagiarism–of a 1975 article

The South African Review of Sociology has retracted a 1989 paper by an author who must have figured the source — a 1975 article — was sufficiently well removed from institutional memory to catch anyone’s eye. Evidently that was a safe bet for a generation. But we’re guessing the Internet permitted the detective work that … Continue reading Journal retracts a 24-year-old sociology paper for plagiarism–of a 1975 article

That’s not plagiarism, it’s an “administrative error”

Our list of ways that authors and editors find to dance around writing the word “plagiarism” seems to grow longer by the week. Today, we can add “administrative error” to that collection of euphemisms, thanks to authors from South Africa and the editors of an education journal. Here’s the notice for “Development studies students as … Continue reading That’s not plagiarism, it’s an “administrative error”