شکایت یک مولف از سرقت علمی از مقاله اش در یک مجله‌ی الزویر

محمد قدسی | چهارشنبه, ۱۳ آذر ۱۳۸۷

-----Original Message-----
From: "Eamonn Keogh " eamonn@cs.ucr.edu>
To: dbworld@cs.wisc.edu
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 19:50:00 -0600
Subject: [Dbworld] Elsevier handling of plagiarism case

On the 16th of February 2008, I sent an email to the Editorial board of Elseviers Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. The email, with the subject heading “Dear Editors, I would like to ask you to investigate a paper which appears in your journal for plagiarism” pointed out that paper [a] was plagiarized.

The Editorial board immediately did.. ..nothing. On October 23 2008, I sent a follow-up email noting that “I pointed out a transparent example of plagiarism in your journal, and no one from the editorial board has contacted me about an investigation”.

This time I got a response from Luc Wuytack, Principal Editor Journal CAM. He said “Considering the fact that your paper was referenced several times in Chen's paper, there was no need to further investigate your claim.”

To say I was dumbfound would be an understatement. I tried to go over the heads of the EB by emailing the publisher. At first this seemed to work, Lucia Franco did respond on 11/10/2008, and say “let me assure you that we take allegations of plagiarism very seriously.”. However, since then he has not communicated with me, he has not responded to email, and the paper in question is still online.

I can understand the need for caution when the claim of plagiarism is subjective or on the borderline, however in this case the paper steals figures, ideas and text. It even manages to steal text from at least 6 different papers! See
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/plagiarism.pdf

What is my point?

The Editorial board of Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics is either incompetent or lazy or both. Perhaps they are not as bad as M. S. El Naschie [b], but they should be replaced.

Elsevier Journals are not cheap, if they expect our libraries to pay the hefty subscription fees, they should make an effort to do some quality control. I will be forwarding this communication to my library.

Best wishes, eamonn

[a] Multi-scale anomaly detection algorithm based on infrequent pattern of time series Xiao-yun Chen ,Yan-yan Zhan. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 214 (2008) 227 ¨C 237

[b] http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/11/the_case_of_m_s_el_naschie.html
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محمد قدسی

۲۱ فروردين ۹۳ ، ۱۷:۱۸

l.a

با سلام خدمت دوستان

بنده فوق لیسانس مهندسی صنایع گرفتم و از تزم دفاع کردم بعدش رفتم سربازی.متاسفانه استاد راهنما و مشاورم مقاله من رو تو دانشگاه دالاس تگزاس و همزمان با کمی تغییر و تحول تو دانشگاه تهران بدون اینکه اسم من رو بیارن و بدونم به چاپ رسوندن

واقعا نمی دونم چکار کنم آیا جایی هست دردمونو به کی بگیم؟

۲۲ مهر ۹۱ ، ۱۴:۲۶

مریم

با سلام

چطور می توانم نسبت به استاد راهنمایی اقامه دعو و شکایت کنم. این استاد دانشگاه با توصل به دروغ و با استفاده از یک دانشجو برنامه مرا دزدیده و با استفاده از این برنامه مقاله چاپ کرده و دانشجو هم فارغ التحصیل شده است. من چه اقدامی می توانم بکنم؟

۱۴ آذر ۸۷ ، ۰۶:۰۰

Javad Donyagar

من هم مقاله مورد نظر را نگاه کردم. البته در زمینه تخصصی این مقاله اشرافی ندارم ولی به نظرم کار به اصطلاح تقلب در بخش بررسی کارهای قبلی اتفاق افتاده است. شاید بهتر بود که جمله بندی مطالب را نویسنده تغییر می داد ولی این همه فغان و فریاد برای اینکه چند جمله کلی را کپی کرده است کمی زیادی است. در مورد مجموعه ژورنالهای الزویر هم نمی توان به این سادگی حکم کلی صادر کرد. بله نمونه هایی مثل آن مقاله ای که بچه های شریف فرستادند و قبول هم شد را می توان مثال زد یا مثال آقای دکتر محمد الناشی نیز وجود دارد. ولی در ازای آن دهها مجله خوب را نیز می توان مثال زد که الزویر چاپ می کند. کلی گویی و احکام صفر و یک شاید خیلی مناسب نباشد و کمی به این قضیه به صورت فازی باید نگاه کرد. البته همه قبول دارند که الزویر در رشته کامپیوتر یا برق در رده سوم قرار دارد و نشریات آی تریپل ای و یا نشریات ای سی ام در رده اول قرار دارند. اما در زمانی که هر روز نام یک نشریه جدید را می شنویم انتشارات الزویر از سابقه و ساختار بروکراتیک خوبی برخوردار است.

۱۴ آذر ۸۷ ، ۰۴:۴۰

Dear Professor Keogh,

Further to my above Comment, just wish to mention that in order to persuade Elsevier to take your complaint seriously, you should act as follows: You should present Elsevier with a deadline and indicate in your writing that their failure to act on your complaint by this deadline will lead you to refer your case to a national newspaper. Experience shows that the only thing that publishers are fearful of is the prospect of a bad publicity. Of course, before writing to Elsevier you should make sure that you are fully determined to put your threat into action should the need thereto arise. For this, you may consider to undertake some preparatory work before writing to Elsevier, such as discussing the matter in general terms (i.e. without making any explicit reference to Elsevier) with the relevant editors of some of the prominent national newspapers. You could enquire from these editors whether they would be willing to write on the subject matter of plagiarism and, if so, under what conditions. Of course, you should ascertain before hand that these newspapers and Elsevier are not parts of the same financial empire. Ideally, you should get your University behind you before taking any action that might draw you into a costly litigation.

Yours sincerely,

BF.

۱۳ آذر ۸۷ ، ۲۳:۲۵

Dear Professor Keogh,

Before going into details, I first point out that regrettably I did not know you until several minutes ago; this is undoubtedly due to the fact that our fields of expertise do not overlap. From the link attached to your Comment/e-mail I just discovered that you are Associate Professor at University of California, Riverside. The fact that you are an Associate Professor and apparently are unaware of the working practices of such publisher as Elsevier came as a surprise to me; after all, you must have been living on the planet Earth!

Since you are apparently not aware of the working practices of Elsevier, I recommend you that you take the trouble and have a conversation with the senior librarian of your Department and/or University and ask their opinion about Elsevier. The senior librarian of my own Department (Ms Carlton - retired long since) had no good word for Elsevier, already some ten-fifteen years ago. To be brief, Elsevier is first and foremost in the business of money making; if their activities somehow contribute to the spread of knowledge, that is only a side-effect, a bonus some might say.

Have you never encountered Elsevier employees ('mercenaries' would be a more befitting word) at conferences constantly stalking you, that you write a book or edit a book? From my experience I do know that they hardly care who one is and what one does, as long as they can identify the name on one's conference badge with one of the names in e.g. the list of invited speakers. Strangely, being dressed in an expensive suit seems also to trigger them to approach one and offer one a book deal.

The senior librarian of my Department was not a benevolent person (she did not mince her words) and used to call Elsevier a rouge publisher; she told me that a disproportionate part of the shelf space, both in the Departmental Library and in the Central Library, was taken up by the voluminous conference books published by Elsevier, which no human being ever consulted - this as evidenced by the library records - but no respectable library could afford not to acquire. If you make a search, you will find out that Elsevier's products (whether books, conference proceedings, or journals) are all exorbitantly expensive, and this owing to Elsevier's aggressive marketing practices (Elsevier used to be a respectable publisher until the time that they decided to buy up all small publishers and create an almost monopoly position in the field of academic publishing - now they are draining the academic budgets that are meant to be spent on teaching and research that ultimately are to lead to creation of new knowledge).

As for the statement

"let me assure you that we take allegations of plagiarism very seriously.",

this is a set phrase, which most of us must have seen many times over. The person who wrote you (better, copy-pasted) the above phrase is in no position to assure you of anything; she and her ilk are employed and paid with the sole purpose of diverting people's attention and deflecting criticisms and complaints.

I close this Comment by proposing that universities take the lead and publish their academic outputs themselves. Universities are, and must be, the guarantors of the quality of the products produced within their confines. By following this proposal, the problem of plagiarism will be solved instantly: no respectable university will be benefited by publishing, on its official website, a paper that has been shown to be incorrect or plagiarised. This model leaves a role to be played by the traditional publishers: these publishers can sign deals with universities to publish a selection or total of their outputs in e.g. print form. In doing so, they could make their publications more attractive by subjecting them to a peer-review process, enhancing the quality of the written texts, improving the quality of data presentation (better graphs, more detailed tables, etc.), etc.

BF.

۱۳ آذر ۸۷ ، ۲۲:۰۶

شاید این در علوم دیگر اشکال داشته باشد
ولی در ریاضیات اگر فردی قضیه ای را اتبات کند ر حالی جملاتش را از جایی دیگر کپی کرده باشد,آیا این واقعا تقلب است؟

۱۳ آذر ۸۷ ، ۲۰:۱۴

Amir

احتراما به عرض جناب پیامی برسانم که این که کسی به انگلیسی تسلط ندارد دلیل برای این نمیشود که جملات دیگران بدزدد و این کار به هر صورت دزدی هست. اگر کسی به هر دلیلی میخواهد از جملات افراد دیگر عینا استفاده کند بایستی که جملات را داخل گیومه بگذارد (و ایتالیک کند) و به مرجع اصلی ارجاع دهد و هر کار دیگری غیر از این دزدی است.

۱۳ آذر ۸۷ ، ۱۷:۴۸

Payami

به نظر من این مورد نیاز به کارشناسی دقیق توسط متخصصین ریاضی دارد و صرف شباهت تعدادی از جملات که در فایل پی دی اف مشاهده می شود نمی تواند دلیل کافی باشد. سه حالت ممکن است:
1- جملات مشابه هر دو از یک مرجع گرفته شده اند و این چیزی است که پاسخ اولیه ژورنال نیز ظاهرا به آن اشاره دارد
2- جملات از مقاله شخص مذکور برداشته شده اند ولی احتمالا به دلیل عدم تسلط نویسنده دوم به نگارش انگلیسی ولی موضوع اصلی مقاله ها و نوآوری آنها کاملا با هم متفاوت است.
3- ژورنال علمی وقاحت را از حد به در کرده است!

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