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Physics Plagiarism Alert
Physics Plagiarism AlertRecent news, February 7 2003: This week, we learned from themedia that an enquiry commission has submitted its report on the charges of plagiarism that are the focus of this website.The report confirms that plagiarism has taken place. Thecommission specifically found the Vice-Chancellor of KumaonUniversity, Prof. B.S. Rajput, guilty of plagiarism. Here is one ofthe media reports:Indian Express, February 4, 2003Subsequently it was announced that Prof. Rajput has resignedas Vice-Chancellor of Kumaon University:TheHindu, February 7, 2003 This page describes a shocking set ofinstances of plagiarism in TheoreticalPhysics by an Indian scientist holding a high official position, together with hiscolleagues. If you are a physicist working in or concerned with Indian science, itis important that you view the contents of this page, convinceyourself of what they represent and make youropinion known. We have presented factual materials that webelieve make it completely clear, without a shadow of doubt, thatplagiarism has taken place. The identities of the perpetrators of thisare also clear. This page was created in the hope that seriousaction will be taken against those responsible for these shamefulactions. Their actions pose a grave danger to the interests andreputation of Indian science.(i) Here are two published papers. You can download them asPDF or PostScript files, print them and compare them for yourself.Title: Superpotential from black holes Title: Axion-dilaton black holes with SL(2,Z) symmetry through APT-FGPmodelAuthor: Renata Kallosh,Stanford UniversityAuthors: S.C. Joshi and B.S. Rajput,Kumaun UniversityJournal: Physical Review D, Vol 54, No. 8Date of publication: 15 October1996Journal: Europhysics Letters, Vol. 57 No. 5Date of publication: 1 March 2002Download this paper (PDF)Download this paper (PDF)Download this paper (PostScript)Download this paper (PostScript) You may find it helpful to read areport on the comparison of the above papers:Read Report(ii) The above example is by no means an isolated one.We found that many other papers by the same group have been plagiarised in a similar way.Some of the most serious cases are described here in detail. One of these has now been withdrawn by the journal in which it was published (see note at the top of this page):Read report (PDF) Read report (PostScript)(iii) Three more instances of unethical scientific practice by thesame group are described in the following report:Read report (PDF) Read report (PostScript) (iv) Here is information about which of the authors was the"corresponding author" for some of the papers described above.Read report (PDF) Read report (PostScript) (v) The journal "Progress of TheoreticalPhysics" has published an Editor's Note withdrawing the paper of M.P. Singh and B.S. Rajput (see the report in section (ii)above), on the grounds that it is "not an original contribution". Read this note LINKSHere are links to some recent articles inthe news mediaon this issue. Some of them feature comments from the concernedauthors.The Hindu, September 27, 2002Indian Express, October 3, 2002Hindustan Times, October 3, 2002The Hindu, October 5, 2002Indian Express, October 5, 2002The Times of India, October 8, 2002The Hindu, October 22, 2002 (about the Stanford letter, see below)NDTV, October 25, 2002 (transcript of a news item on the Star News channel)Frontline, October 26, 2002 (i)Frontline, October 26, 2002 (ii)Deccan Herald, November 30. 2002Frontline, December 7, 2002On October 11 2002, seven Faculty members atStanford University, including three NobelLaureates, wrote a letter to the President of India. They urgedhim to launch an investigation into the plagiarism scandal that hasbeen described on this website. ReadStanford letter (PDF) Read Stanford letter (PostScript)This webpage is endorsed by:Radha Balakrishnan(Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)V. Balakrishnan(Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai)Rahul Basu(Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)Kankan Bhattacharyya(Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur)Debajyoti Choudhury(Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad)Atish Dabholkar(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)Sumit Das(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)Avinash Dhar(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)Debashis Gangopadhyay(S.N. Bose National Centre, Kolkata)Debashis Ghoshal(Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad)Rajesh Gopakumar(Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad)Suresh Govindarajan(Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai)T.R. Govindarajan(Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)Kumar Gupta(Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata)A. Harindranath(Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata)Pankaj Jain(Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur)Dileep Jatkar(Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad)T. Jayaraman(Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)S. Kalyana Rama(Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)Sayan Kar(Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur)Romesh Kaul(Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)Alok Kumar(Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar)Swapna Mahapatra(Utkal University, Bhubaneswar)Parthasarathi Majumdar(Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata)Rudra Prakash Malik(S.N. Bose National Centre, Kolkata)Gautam Mandal(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)Gautam Menon(Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)Abhijit Mookerjee(S.N. Bose National Centre, Kolkata)Sudipta Mukherji(Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar)Sunil Mukhi(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)Palash Pal(Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata)Sudhakar Panda(Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad)Sriram Ramaswamy(Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)Sumathi Rao(Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad)Arnab Rai Choudhuri(Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)Pratap Raychaudhuri(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)Probir Roy(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)Shibaji Roy(Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata)Varun Sahni(Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune)Ashoke Sen(Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad)Diptiman Sen(Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)Gautam Sengupta(Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur)Ajit Srivastav(Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar)Spenta Wadia(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)Comments may be emailed to:mukhi [at] tifr.res.in, sen [at] mri.ernet.in Last updated: February 11, 2003geovisit();
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