送交者: eric 于 2006-5-15, 11:51:01:
回答: 这一期的Chronicle of Higher Education有两篇关于中国学术腐败的长篇报道 由 方舟子 于 2006-5-15, 10:29:21:
China Fires Academic Over Plagiarism
By PAUL MOONEY
China's Tsinghua University has fired the assistant dean of its School of Medicine following accusations that the professor plagiarized an article from an American medical journal, and may have fabricated work experience listed on his résumé.
The accusations first surfaced last November on a blog set up by a local scholar, Fang Zhouzhi, which is devoted to exposing cases of plagiarism and academic corruption.
Mr. Fang accused the medical-school official, Liu Hui, of having plagiarized a scholarly work by another Chinese doctor in the United States that was published in the Journal of General Virology. Mr. Fang also raised doubts about Dr. Liu's claim on his résumé, which was posted on a university Web site, that he had worked at New York University Medical Center from 1994 to 2004, including a stint as the director of a surgery-research institute. Tsinghua University has since deleted Dr. Liu's page from its Web site.
A spokesman for New York University School of Medicine, which is part of the medical center, confirmed that no one by the name Liu Hui had worked at the center during the period listed on the résumé.
Tsinghua University, which dismissed Dr. Liu last month, did not respond to requests for information. However, in an official statement, the university said that after carrying out an investigation, it had discovered "serious inaccuracies" and "improper actions" in the materials submitted to the university in Dr. Liu's employment application and on his personal Web site, and had decided to cancel his contract.
Dr. Liu could not be reached for an interview and did not reply to an e-mail message requesting information. However, the newspaper Beijing Youth Daily reported that Dr. Liu had sent an e-mail message to Tsinghua administrators vigorously denying plagiarizing the article. According to the newspaper, Dr. Liu argued that the paper had mistakenly appeared on his list of research papers because of a data-collection error by a library data-retrieval system. Dr. Liu said the actual author of the article shared the same surname and first initial, Liu, H.
The Ministry of Education made a public statement confirming the dismissal of Dr. Liu, adding that it was planning to set up a special commission to monitor what critics say is a rapid increase in academic corruption and plagiarism in China.
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Section: International
Volume 52, Issue 31, Page A51