The first letter: three papers signed by Li are academic fraud.
1 18 10 18, Professor Zhu Guoguang, a distinguished expert group of traditional Chinese medicine of the All-Europe Federation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, sent a letter entitled "Advocating rigorous academic research and opposing academic fraud" to the president of Yangwei College of Zhejiang University, Finland.
In the letter, Zhu Guoguang told Yang Wei that there were academic frauds in three papers signed by Li, Dean of the School of Pharmacy of Zhejiang University.
After careful study by the special expert group of traditional Chinese medicine of the All-Europe Federation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, it is considered that the author of the paper not only submitted more than one manuscript, but also made serious fraud. German Journal of NSA Pharmacology, Dutch Journal of Ethnology Pharmacology, British Journal of Herbal Therapy and Polish Bulletin of Pharmacology, which published the research group's papers, all publicly declared that this was "scientific fraud", and deleted these published "academic papers" and reserved the right to pursue their legal responsibilities. At present, an in-depth international investigation is under way.
Professor Zhu Guoguang said in his letter, "Zhejiang University has always been famous for its rigorous scholarship, and we have always been proud of it. I didn't expect this paper to be fraudulent, and it was under the name of an academician of the China Academy of Engineering. "
The second letter: more than one manuscript will damage the reputation of Chinese medicine in Europe.
On the evening of February 6, 65438, while Zhejiang University was investigating this matter, Professor Zhu Guoguang sent a letter to the person in charge of the Stomach-nourishing College of Zhejiang University.
The letter said that we found that two articles published by Academician Li in the name of the first author were first published in English in foreign journals and then published in China in the name of changing the first author to Academician Li every few months or years. In addition, China's paper did not mention that any articles were published in foreign journals in English, or even listed in the references. "Explain that the author deliberately avoided the same article that has been published!"
Professor Zhu Guoguang said that Academician Li's research group forged the thesis case, which seriously damaged the reputation of China's scientific and technological personnel in Europe, damaged the image of our Chinese medicine products in the European market and affected our Chinese medicine market. The falsification of papers was done by postdocs.
The spokesman of Zhejiang University announced the results of the school's investigation and the decision to deal with it to the media in writing. It is said that the "paper fraud incident" is mainly the personal behavior of He Haibo, a postdoctoral fellow brought by Academician Li, and other authors are unaware of it.
According to the article, "On June 65438+1October 65438+June 6, 2008, the executive vice president of the School of Pharmacy of Zhejiang University received an email from a professor, complaining that He Haibo, a doctoral student who had graduated from Zhejiang University and was then an associate professor of Zhejiang University, had obtained his consent to use the data of his research group at the end of the paper, which was plagiarism. The School of Pharmacy of Zhejiang University and relevant functional departments of the school attached great importance to it and immediately began to investigate. He Haibo has admitted his mistake to the college and made a face-to-face review to his doctoral supervisor.
"He Haibo entered the Post-Doctoral Research Center of Pharmacy of Zhejiang University in June 2006 and was hired as an associate professor by Zhejiang University in July 2008. The School of Pharmacy of Zhejiang University and relevant functional departments found out that He Haibo had some academic misconduct during his postdoctoral research in Zhejiang University, such as plagiarism, two manuscripts, unauthorized signature of others, unauthorized signature of fund support, and fabricating famous experts to help improve English. The school held the principal's office meeting on 10/13, and decided to revoke his position and qualification as an associate professor according to the Academic Ethics and Code of Conduct of Zhejiang University. If any related academic unethical behavior problems are found, they will be investigated to the end. "
Zhejiang University also said that these foreign periodicals are not published, but rented.
The spokesman said that it is the common responsibility of universities including Zhejiang University to resist academic corruption and maintain academic ethics. Zhejiang University has always attached great importance to the construction of academic ethics. The school regards this as a negative textbook for academic misconduct, strengthens the education of academic ethics and academic integrity for postdoctoral and new faculty members, and further takes measures to severely punish academic misconduct. The results of the survey are questionable.
However, some experts are not satisfied with the results. Some experts believe that in several papers, the scientific research design, ideas, test methods and items, experimental selection and collocation have a certain level, and the English level is also very good, unlike post-doctoral writing alone. Moreover, a pharmaceutical experiment with so many projects cannot be completed by one person. Moreover, the establishment of a paper is subject to examination and approval at different levels, and other authors can't be unaware of it, and the research funds obtained can't be used by others. The central topic of the first three papers is the core and most important topic of Academician Li in recent years, and "ignorance" is a bit unreasonable.
Many experts believe that from the academic standard, as long as the author of the paper has no objection to using his own signature, once the paper goes wrong, no one can escape the responsibility, no one. Related to the examination system for professors in colleges and universities
In fact, a person familiar with the matter said that the reason for this bad result is the evaluation system of teachers in colleges and universities, and the number of papers published by teachers is directly related to income and promotion.
According to the examination system of a university in Zhejiang, the full professor requires more than 8 papers in liberal arts and more than 6 in science and engineering, including more than 2 authoritative core journals. Among them, the publication of each type of publication is scored separately. In addition, he presided over the completion of national scientific research projects and provincial and ministerial scientific research projects. It is also graded separately. The final total score will determine the promotion of the professor in the school.
Therefore, when students publish papers in some core journals, teachers will ask students to bring their own names, and sometimes they are the first authors, which is a common practice in domestic universities. "There are so many papers in each academic year that it is impossible for professors to read each paper carefully, let alone verify the authenticity in a short time, involving some experimental data." A person in charge of a university in Zhejiang revealed to this reporter that it is precisely because of this that domestic universities have unwritten rules. If the thesis is mainly written by students, no matter where the tutor's name is, if there is a problem, only the students will be dealt with, not the professor.