Timeline for Should I report an accepted PhD thesis in which the literature review is copied verbatim from sources?
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| Oct 9 at 8:13 | comment | added | Matsmath | Wait until you graduate. | |
| Jul 2 at 11:59 | comment | added | Rich Remer | There's a reason trust in science is falling in the US. I bet questions like this are a big part of that. | |
| May 21, 2023 at 10:18 | answer | added | Ambicion | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 26, 2020 at 14:08 | answer | added | Sascha | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 23, 2020 at 23:20 | comment | added | Ootagu | This has been a fascinating post. I am astonished at course of action to take this to one's advisor (which reads as keep it secret) and even the rationalization of plagiarism. Is this what has happened to academia? Seems to be. Plagiarism is serious and it undermines research credibility. I would think the university would rescind the PhD granted. This should be made public by an anonymous informer and the university in question should be notified after the case has been made public. | |
| Dec 23, 2020 at 17:43 | comment | added | Debora Weber-Wulff | Did you have the permission of the author to use Turnitin on the text? Turnitin stores copies, so you may have violated copyright (even if the thing is plagiarized). | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 19:52 | answer | added | Jeff | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Aug 31, 2015 at 3:21 | comment | added | user39373 | I would recommend to act annonimously since you are in a weak position. I think it would help others who are now in the same scenario as you were to know how this story ended. | |
| Mar 24, 2015 at 12:22 | comment | added | A.S | A similar post may be found here (academia.stackexchange.com/questions/5997/…), reflecting the experiences of someone whose thesis was plagiarized. It seems there is lack of clear guidance on how to handle such cases as each case is a little different, although the heart of the issue is consistent (academic plagiarism at the graduate level). Perhaps there is a policy gap in the academic institutional space in terms of resources and practices for addressing such issues. | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 20:39 | comment | added | Paul | I'm not condoning this sort of thing, but it wouldn't surprise me to find that plagiarism of lit review sections is pretty common. When I was doing lit review for my own dissertation, I found an article's lit review that was a sentence-by-sentence paraphrase of another's. Not a word-for-word copy, but citing the same papers in the same order and saying essentially exactly the same things about them. I can sort of understand why somebody would do this; writing a lit review is really tedious compared to writing about one's own research. Even so it's a bit of a cheat, I wouldn't recommend it. | |
| Jan 15, 2015 at 9:48 | answer | added | einpoklum | timeline score: 3 | |
| S Jan 15, 2015 at 9:42 | history | suggested | einpoklum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 12, 2014 at 14:50 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | I'm assuming, although you haven't clearly stated it, that the thesis author is not a co-author of any of the work reused in this fashion. It probably also makes a difference if the earlier work came out of the same research group, as permission for such use may have been obtained (of course it should have been somehow disclosed, but perhaps not directly adjacent). I did obtain permission from my lab director to reuse some problem-defining text from grant applications, although I ended up not using it. Please clarify the connection between the authors of the thesis and cited works. | |
| Dec 8, 2014 at 21:57 | answer | added | Tom Au | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 8, 2014 at 16:23 | answer | added | Patric Hartmann | timeline score: 6 | |
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| S Nov 7, 2014 at 1:49 | history | suggested | dionys | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 16, 2014 at 4:43 | comment | added | user1482 | You should prepare yourself for a possible extremely hostile reaction from the offender's adviser, since this reflects very poorly on the adviser. If the adviser knew about the problem, the adviser is complicit in the plagiarism. If the adviser didn't know, it suggests that the adviser supervised an entire dissertation without having read the relevant primary literature. For someone in your position, just starting out in an academic career, it might be safer to notify the victims of the plagiarism and let them take action. | |
| Aug 3, 2013 at 11:09 | comment | added | Jack Aidley | If you do not want to put your name to the accusation there is nothing to prevent you from contacting the relevant person or body anonymously. Disposable e-mail addresses are easy to come by or you could simply post an anonymous letter to the relevant person. | |
| Aug 3, 2013 at 4:09 | history | edited | aeismail | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 25, 2013 at 8:39 | comment | added | hunter2 | If you know the author's advisor pretty well, starting with an informal chat might be a good way. If you don't want to talk to him directly ... Well, there's this other question I see, that might be, um, 'interesting'. academia.stackexchange.com/questions/10733/… | |
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| Jan 2, 2013 at 14:18 | answer | added | Paul Hiemstra | timeline score: 3 | |
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