Good one, Phil.
I am sure colleagues will be able to mirror my own experience. Did a small
bit of analysis of the qualifications and experience of UK academics in
Universities v the then Polytechnics: it was interesting and revealing, by
the way. I submitted it to a journal and was told it lacked a theoretical
underpininng. OK, I thought, they know best. I moved on and in those days of
not so hot IT systems and skills, lost my submission. Lo and behold, three
years or so later the author of the letter who told me I wasn't worthy,
published in the self same journal a very similar analysis to mine. No
theoretical underpinning there either.
Following a house and wife move, my missing manuscript resurfaced but I
didn't have the energy to take up the fight.
Maybe I should now!
Duncan Williamson
-----Original Message-----
From: Baty, Phil [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 08 December 2006 09:59
Subject: Re: It's not just undergraduates who plagiarise
There's a great piece in yesterday's Times Higher on academics who
plagiarise (and commit other forms of research fraud). See:
http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/story.aspx?story_id=2034421
Phil Baty
-----Original Message-----
From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of James A
Malcolm
Sent: 08 December 2006 08:02
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: It's not just undergraduates who plagiarise
At http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7119/full/444524b.html
[Volume 444 Number 7119: subscribers only] there is a very interesting
article about how much plagiarism there is among professional scientists (or
possibly PhD students).
This is also slightly annoying, as it goes only a fairly small step beyond
what we reported in Gateshead (see
http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/documents/papers/2006Papers02.pdf). But then again
a publication in the JISC Plagiarism Conference is only a fairly small step
less prestigious than one in Nature ;-) .
jamesM
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