Bad!A paper was copied by the reviewer and plagiarized by the author of the same unit

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In 2019, the "Retraction Watch" website reported that the reviewer plagiarized the author and published a strange thing in his own name.

Mina Mehregan, a mechanical engineer from the University of Mashhadfieldsi, Iran, and his colleagues found that they submitted the papers of "Research on Environmental Science and Pollution" (ESPR). After nine months of review, they were Others secretly published in "Energy Resources" published in November 2017.

And this plagiarism writer Yuvarajan Devarajan is the reviewer of the journal invested by Mehregan.

After five months of long -term rights protection, this plagiarism papers have been withdrawn. Before the withdrawal, this article was quoted 17 times, including 8 self -quotes, and the authors of the same unit quoted 3 times.

At present, the incident is finally followed. After the withdrawal, the reviewer Devarajan admitted plagiarism in the email sent to the author and asked for forgiveness. But what I didn't expect Mehregan was that their articles were plagiarized by other researchers in the university where the plagiarism.

The dissertation issued by the reviewer Devaraja was withdrawn

The reviewer acknowledged plagiarism in the apology letter, and said: "My life cannot return to the right track"

After the withdrawal notification was issued, the reviewer Devarajan acknowledged his plagiarism in an apology email to the original author.

The letter wrote:

"First of all, I want to tell you that I have committed the biggest mistake in my life -plagiarizing your paper. Because of this, I have great trouble in physical, mental and economical. In the worst situation in life, with the bad treatment of family, friends, bosses and colleagues, my life cannot return to the right track.

"As a researcher, I am not interested in plagiarism, but I borrowed your papers in the research of pure biological diesel, and I also used laboratory equipment to carry out this research work. I can re -explain most of the content when submitting the first draft. I sincerely and hard work to modify the full text, but the manuscript was accepted and published within 10 days. From submission to hiring, it was less than a week before and after. Therefore, I was helpless. "

Although Devarajan directly acknowledged plagiarism in the email, the withdrawal notice on the paper only acknowledged that "there is a text overlap with the previous paper."

In addition, Devarajan stated in the email that all other submissions he submitted to "Research on Environmental Science and Pollution" were rejected without consideration, "this greatly destroyed my career."

However, Mehregan then pointed out that even after withdrawal, Devarajan published papers in "Research on Environmental Science and Pollution" and "Energy Resources".

In the first plagiarism incident, Mehregan had commented that eliminating such non -acting behaviors needed severe punishment for journals and publishers. Mehregan said, "I hope that the scientific community will be able to figure out this problem once and for all, because his immoral behavior will hurt us more than him."

Author of the same college, "upgrade" and plagiarism

However, Mehregan had a new discovery, and her the same paper was plagiarized again.

This biological diesel -related article was published in the "International Environment Energy Magazine" in July 2018 and has been cited 16 times.

At first glance, there are no same signatures in plagiarism in the two papers. (Sathyabama University) mechanical engineering department.

The author of the author who is suspected of plagiarism dissertation is consistent

Mehregan said, "This paper not only copied our original ideas, but also filled with data fraud." Different from the text in the first plagiarism incident, the second plagiarism seemed to "learn clever", and the overall thinking was completely consistent. , And use the accurate parameters in the original research, and also deliberately create differences in the text.

In response to this issue, Mehregan had communicated with the "International Environment Energy" magazine and its publishing houses many times. The email mentioned, "We are not allowed to be stolen by original research, and the plagiarism versions are published and escaped sanctions. We will investigate This question was withdrawn until the scam dissertation was withdrawn. "

However, after several years of complaints and an expert survey for a year, Mehregan's withdrawal request has not been reached. As of June 19, this article has not been withdrawn.

The author of the article, S. Manigandan, Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sata Bama, said that it had received an email of the "International Environment Energy" magazine in January 2021. "We have submitted a detailed report to the relevant team. They accepted it Our explanation. After that, we did not receive any emails from the journal. "

In the face of two plagiarism incidents, Mehregan discovered contact: In the first plagiarism, if Yuvarajan Devarajan and his collaborators were seriously handled, maybe others dared not to build it like the law.

Reference materials:

https://retractionwatch.com/2022/06/06/a-stolen-manuscript-two-the-plagiaarist-teds-ForgiveNESS-A-Another-Plagiarizes-Same/Work/work/work/work/work -125030https: //jkms.org/doix.php? ID = 10.3346/jkms.2019.34.e41

https://retractionwatch.com/2019/02/14/A-Reviewer- A-ManCript-ndlished-IT-HIMSELF-BUT-You-Know-From-This-NoticE/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15567036.2018.1498682

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