Recently, artist Zhai Tianlin was suspected of "doctoral degree mixed with water". In response to this, Peking University and Beijing Film Academy responded to this, saying that they had "zero tolerance for academic misconduct" and set up an investigation team to investigate.
Academic integrity is the most basic and minimum requirement for scholars! In response to this, Chen Zhiwen, editor-in-chief of China Education Online, wrote an article: Why are paper frauds emerging one after another? The editor will share with you.
When Zhai Tianlin showed his postdoctoral recruitment notice online, he never expected that he would perform another drama because of this: the paper was suspected of fraud. A university leader in the entertainment industry, now he has a doctorate degree. Whether Zhai is suspected of fraud will definitely require the Beijing Film Academy to make an authoritative academic recognition, but we need to think deeply about why academic fraud is emerging one after another.
I remembered an article I wrote two years ago, and my basic views have not changed. I will post it again here.
Zhai Tianlin's suspected paper is false, if it is determined, it is currently the lowest level and is plagiarism. There are many people who are more skilled than Zhai.
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In 2016, Springer canceled 107 papers from China on a large scale, and famous schools, hospitals, and famous doctors became the hardest hit areas. In 2015, Springer also revoked a batch of fake papers on a large scale. When the last time he canceled it, Springer said it clearly that after he discovered some fraud last time, he manually checked it again and found so many more. The reasons for the cancellation are all due to one reason, and it is suspected of false reviews by peer reviews!
What is peer review fraud? There is a basic review system for the publishing management of international academic papers, which is peer review. That is, let peer experts evaluate whether your paper is valuable, how to further modify it, etc. The peer reviewer system is recognized as the most scientific evaluation system and is also a common practice in the international academic community. Because the distance is like a mountain, especially in some new and micro fields, some academic journals do not have enough expert databases to complete peer reviews, and are worried that they can bury you. Therefore, some academic journals do not rely entirely on their own expert database to complete peer reviews, but the authors can provide a list of peer experts and choose to use them to help improve this evaluation. The 107 articles we revoked were made fake in this link, providing fake contact information (email address), and even fictitious experts. The purpose is to evaluate ourselves and finally achieve the purpose of publishing the paper.
Academic integrity is the most basic and minimum requirement for scholars. Why do so many famous schools and hospitals take risks? The reason is extremely simple, you can make profits, even huge benefits, and the cost is very low! For example, some people even wanted to give professors an addiction to professors and even higher honors, so they did not hesitate to commit fraud. Some people criticize that large-scale fraud of doctor papers is actually caused by inappropriate evaluation of doctors using papers. This statement makes sense. Doctors are busy treating diseases and saving people. With a few hours of operation, it is really difficult to have more time to do scientific research, but if you want to go further, you need a paper, so you take the risk.
Change the ruler for evaluating doctors may reduce the number of doctors’ paper fraud, but I’m afraid it cannot be completely eliminated, and it is even more impossible to change our larger-scale scholars’ paper fraud.
As early as 2009, the Journal of Crystals announced the withdrawal of 70 articles from , Jinggangshan University, , two teachers, involving many teachers in the school and some Chinese universities, because of the fraud of crystal structure data. According to the continuous withdrawal statements of international academic papers in recent years, it can be found that the papers that Chinese scholars have made various falsifications have spread across various fields. Basic disciplines such as biochemistry and medicine are the most common areas of papers, so they have become the hardest hit area.
In fact, the paper is fake, and has long been completely industrialized in the country and is popular, not limited to scholars. Open Baidu and enter the two words "paper". It is full of advertisements for writing and publishing papers on behalf of others, including core Chinese journals and SCIs. The word "paper" has become Baidu's most popular keyword.Similarly, the four words "paper checking" have also become the keywords of the hot search for Taobao education in 2016 released by Taobao . Why check for pounds? I am afraid that plagiarism will be discovered, so I find a software to check it out first.
Some people say that frequent fraud in papers is caused by our evaluation of people by papers, and this sentence cannot stand scrutiny at all. Don’t you comment abroad like this? The difference between us is that we only have papers, but it is definitely not that we don’t read papers. Why don’t they have one?
The paper fraud went abroad, and the coverage was not the scholars, but our international students. Recently, at the University of Sydney in Australia, the bathroom was covered with small Chinese advertisements for writing papers, causing attacks and controversy among students and causing an uproar. In recent years, the Australian government has arrested criminal gangs of international students who write papers and take exams on their behalf many times. According to a survey by an American institution, fraud has become the main reason for our students in the United States, and the upward momentum is obvious.
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papers are cheated and fake, almost regardless of the population. Whether in China or abroad, it is definitely not because it is as simple as evaluating people by papers, but has deeper social and cultural characteristics. appears to be a matter of integrity on the surface, but if you go further, you will find that it is actually a reflection of our overly utilitarian cultural characteristics. As long as the paper can bring value to me, I will do whatever I can. Just as exam-oriented education is popular in China, just like middle school students pursuing publishing papers in core journals: academic papers have important value in independent enrollment of colleges and universities. In 2018, the Henan test paper loss case unexpectedly revealed that lying candidates and parents were suspected of publishing plagiarized papers in order to obtain independent enrollment qualifications. This is the latest example.
We don’t use paper evaluation. If we change a ruler for evaluation, can you ensure that this ruler will not be faked? I'm afraid no one can guarantee it. More importantly, let’s go further: Why do we use the number of papers to evaluate doctors and professors and scholars? The reason is very simple. This quantitative evaluation fraud is relatively difficult and can ensure fairness to the greatest extent. Just like when we evaluate students with scores, it is unscientific, but it can ensure maximum fairness. But I never expected that our scholars would do all the means to cheat and cheat in this regard, just like getting high scores in the college entrance examination. Since
fraud is a chronic disease in our culture, it is just to solve it directly. solves the problem of integrity, and gradually changing our utilitarian cultural traditions is also fundamental, but these all take a long time, even hundreds of years. The most effective thing at present is to severe punishment and punish them, so that the cost of fraud is too great to try or take risks, so that the fraudsters will lose everything, such as title, position, treatment, etc., and even legal punishment.
But unfortunately, we can't do it for various reasons.
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107 papers are revoked, which just gives us a good opportunity to severely punish the relevant departments, and kill without mercy to warn more people.
But the leaders of the China Association for Science and Technology immediately met with Springer's general manager in China. In addition to acknowledging the responsibilities of the authors and other people, the leaders of the China Association for Science and Technology accused Springer publisher of: After the withdrawal incident in 2015, they did not take active and effective measures to prevent similar incidents. The publishing group and journal editors had problems such as imperfect internal control mechanisms and lax review and control, and they should bear responsibility for this.
The absurdity of the statement made by the Chinese Association for Science and Technology is obvious. The review system of peer reviewers for Western Academic Z magazines is based on governance methods based on personal integrity and self-discipline. Just like the American university admission system conducts comprehensive evaluation and diversified admission, you can submit your own information. The premise is that you do not doubt that you will commit fraud, because the consequences of fraud are so serious that they cannot bear it.According to the Association for Science and Technology, is it possible that foreign academic journals will change their academic review process rules for hundreds of years and list a separate "criminal inference" review mechanism for Chinese scholars? Are you not afraid of discriminating against Chinese people?
The public opinion was in an uproar in public opinion. Some people commented that it was like a student who was caught cheating and complaining that you were not strict invigilating the exam and gave me a chance. This statement from the China Association for Science and Technology typically reflects that all sectors of our society lack major issues in terms of consciousness and concepts. They always want to emphasize some off-site factors and some objective factors to find reasons for fraud. It is this terrible social consciousness that causes most of us to fail to kill and punish after the fraud occurs, giving the most severe punishment, making the cost of fraud too low, and thus constantly condoning the occurrence of fraud. This is the fundamental reason why our academic fraud is emerging one after another.
Similarly, the lying parent and candidate in Henan were safe in the end. What if they succeeded back then? There is no cost to instigate more people to lie and falsely.
Of course, this is a systematic problem, not just the lack of severe punishment for relevant authoritative departments, academic institutions and universities. How many of them have we caught on Taobao? Our paper plagiarism checking is actually a magical tool for paper plagiarism from another dimension. What is our attitude?
If we do not punish severely and do not significantly increase the cost of fraud, our culture and relevant systems are still lenient in lying and making false papers, fake papers will inevitably emerge one after another, just change the protagonist next time!
again has a degree and mixed water! Why are paper frauds emerging one after another? Looking forward to your sharing!
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