送交者: 中南海内参 于 2006-4-06, 20:32:14:
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Nature 440, 728-729 (6 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/440728a
Fantasy reference list leads to the sack
What's in a name? Hui Liu, assistant dean of the medical school at Tsinghua University in Beijing, got his job after submitting a résumé that cited, among other things, a paper by "H. Liu" in the Journal of General Virology. He lost his job last month when the university learned that the paper was written by Hong Liu, a researcher at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
The school was told of the problem last November by Shi-min Fang, a San Diego-based biochemist whose home page is a popular place to post rumours of scientific fraud. Following up an anonymous tip-off, Fang says he investigated Liu's résumé, which had been posted on Tsinghua's website. "I found that several papers were either non-existent or belonged to somebody else," Fang says.
The university's investigation led to Hui's dismissal.