Friday, August 05, 2011

Tales from the Academic Netherworld: Guest Editor's Plagiarized Paper

Over at Retraction Watch (which just celebrated its first birthday -- Happy Anniversary, RW!), there's a discussion about retraction of seven papers (and counting) by a researcher due to reasons such as "significant overlap with previously published material," and "references that could not be verified."

Here's the really interesting bit:

Ironically, Weber was guest editor for the JCAPN‘s special issue on Mental Health Nursing Care of LGBT Adolescents and Young Adults, which came out in January 2010. An article he wrote for that issue is the first [of the seven retractions we have] listed [in this post]. ...

RW reports that this guy has also authored this paper!

Posted at

2 comments:

  1. Ankur Kulkarni11:01 PM, August 05, 2011

    Don't like the new look :(

    ReplyDelete
  2. Abi11:29 PM, August 05, 2011

    I'm not terribly happy with this one either, but this is going to stay.

    I dumped the old, custom-made template because it didn't allow me to introduce some of Blogger's new features.

    ReplyDelete

Would you like to comment on this post (or, in response to one of the comments)? If so, please note:

1. This blog does not allow anonymous comments (any more), so please use an open-id account to comment.

2. Comments on posts older than 15 days go into a moderation queue, and may take some time to appear.

Thank you for joining the conversation. Have your say: