Tuesday, September 11, 2007

arXiv - Turkish (COMU, etc.) Plagiarism International Scandal

http://arxiv.org/new/withdrawals.aug.07.html



65 admin withdrawals


65 articles by a group of 14 authors have been withdrawn by the arXiv administration due to excessive reuse of text from articles by other authors. The withdrawn articles were submitted from late 2001 through mid 2007, mainly to gr-qc, and the vast majority (59) were submitted in 2005-2006. (See also this article for additional details.)

The 14 authors, and the number of withdrawn articles co-authored by each, are as follows:

40 M. Salti (Grad Student, METU, Ankara)
29 O. Aydogdu (Grad Student, METU, Ankara)
15 S. Aygun (Grad Student, 18 Mart Univ, Canakkale)
14 M. Korunur (Grad Student, Dicle Univ, Diyarbakir)
13 A. Havare (Assoc Prof., Mersin Univ, Icel)
13 I. Tarhan (Assoc. Prof., 18 Mart Univ, Canakkale)
10 M. Aygun (Grad Student, 18 Mart Univ, Canakkale)
7 H. Baysal (Assoc Prof., 18 Mart Univ, Canakkale)
5 I. Acikgoz (Professor, Dicle Univ, Diyarbakir)
4 I. Yilmaz (Professor, Dean, 18 Mart Univ, Canakkale)
3 F. Binbay (Assistant Prof., Dicle Univ, Diyarbakir)
3 N. Pirinccioglu (Grad Student, Dicle Univ, Diyarbakir)
3 T. Yetkin (Instructor with PhD, Mersin Univ, Icel)
1 C. Aktas (Grad Student, Math Dept, 18 Mart Univ, Canakkale)

Note: The name K. Sogut (Instructor with PhD, Mersin Univ, Icel), who has co-authored with others on the above list, was erroneously included in an earlier version of this list due to an arXiv administrative error. There are no known problems with arXiv.org articles co-authored by K. Sogut.
The 65 withdrawn articles are listed below (the author submissions remain available as earlier versions):

gr-qc/0110023 gr-qc/0207026 gr-qc/0502031 gr-qc/0502032 gr-qc/0502042
gr-qc/0502043 gr-qc/0502058 gr-qc/0502059 gr-qc/0502060 gr-qc/0502061
gr-qc/0505078 gr-qc/0505079 gr-qc/0506061 gr-qc/0506062 gr-qc/0506135
gr-qc/0508018 gr-qc/0509022 gr-qc/0509023 gr-qc/0509047 gr-qc/0509061
gr-qc/0510037 gr-qc/0510038 gr-qc/0510123 gr-qc/0511030 gr-qc/0511095
gr-qc/0512080 gr-qc/0601070 gr-qc/0601133 gr-qc/0601141 gr-qc/0602012
gr-qc/0602070 gr-qc/0603027 gr-qc/0603044 gr-qc/0603063 gr-qc/0603108
gr-qc/0606022 gr-qc/0606028 gr-qc/0606080 gr-qc/0607011 gr-qc/0607082
gr-qc/0607083 gr-qc/0607089 gr-qc/0607095 gr-qc/0607102 gr-qc/0607103
gr-qc/0607104 gr-qc/0607109 gr-qc/0607110 gr-qc/0607115 gr-qc/0607116
gr-qc/0607117 gr-qc/0607119 gr-qc/0607126 gr-qc/0608014 gr-qc/0608024
gr-qc/0608050 gr-qc/0608111 gr-qc/0609101 gr-qc/0611014 gr-qc/0612016
gr-qc/0702047 astro-ph/0505018 0704.0525 0705.2930 0707.1776