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Nature 427, 3 (1 January 2004) | doi:10.1038/427003a

Plagiarism in Cambridge physics lab prompts calls for guidelines

Jim Giles

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.

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