Plagiarism in Cambridge physics lab prompts calls for guidelines

摘要

A string of plagiarized papers remains unaltered in the literature, after researchers and journal editors ignored warning signs of the problem, an investigation by Nature has found. At least eight papers written between 1997 and 2001 by Yung Park, a materials scientist who worked at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, are plagiarized, according to documents examined by Nature. Park has also published at least two pairs of papers with significant overlap in separate journals. Four of the plagiarized papers have been removed from online journals, or marked as plagiarisms, following investigations into Park's Twins: publications by his former colleagues in Korea and by researchers whom he plagiarized. But others remain available either because researchers failed to pass on evidence of plagiarism to journal editors, or because editors were informed and took no action. The status of many of Park's other papers―he published about 80 between 1995 and 2002―has not been fully investigated.