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Nature 449, 8 (6 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449008b; Published online 5 September 2007

Turkish physicists face accusations of plagiarism

Geoff Brumfiel

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Scores of papers are removed from arXiv server.

More than a dozen theoretical physicists at four universities in Turkey seem to be involved in a massive plagiarism scandal.Almost 70 papers by 15 authors have been removed from the popular preprint server arXiv, where many physicists post their work, by the server's moderators.