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Published online 23 September 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.945
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Publisher retracts paper by Iran's science minister
Iranian scientists press for plagiarism inquiry.
Iranian researchers say they are dismayed and angered that a 2009 paper1 coauthored by Kamran Daneshjou, Iran's science minister, appears to have plagiarized a 2002 paper2 published by South Korean researchers. The similarities between the articles were revealed yesterday by Nature (see 'Paper co-authored by Iran's science minister duplicates earlier paper'.
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I appreciate sincere and skillful work of Declan Butler in this article.
I am one of the Ph.D student. I am so sorry for these publications. we are researcher and we want to find facts of creating. every cheating in science is deadly sin.
I think the cheating is one of the bad actions specially in science.I hope scientific society conflict with such as publications.
I am an Iranian researcher working in Iran. There is too many honest and hardworking scientists here. I am ashame of what this man has done. Of course what he did should not be generalized to Iranian scientific society.
Just wondering how the "Peer review" system allows for such things to happen , especially when there seems to be a not so "smooth" reading in sections of the paper.
Perhaps "googling" a whole paragraph might catch such incidence(s).
Online tools are available these days where you can find out whether a part or whole paper is copied from some other paper. That can be a great help to reviewers and they can stop such paper before coming out online.