Professor plagiarizes prostate cancer imaging review paper and blames ghost writer.
Professor plagiarizes prostate cancer imaging review paper and blames ghost writer.
A professor in France who plagiarized extensively in a review article and then blamed the offense on an undisclosed medical writer will lose the publication, Retraction Watch has learned. “We have …
One isn't much better than the other lol
"How dare you accuse me of not writing that article. I didn't even write it!"
This has unironnically happened before (sort of) https://retractionwatch.com/2023/08/30/unethical-and-misleading-researcher-finds-his-name-on-editorial-boards-of-journals-hes-never-heard-of/
I just love how retraction watch just doesn't hold back with statements like this
Loffroy also toned down the offense, saying he wouldn’t care if others had plagiarized his work.
They also just posted his picture on the top of the article.
Plagiarism is misrepresenting someone elses' work as your own, so wouldn't having a ghostwriter write "your" article still be plagiarism regardless?
No, ghostwriting is not plagiarism. Done correctly, there is nothing wrong with it. Hard to argue this professor did it correctly
Not quite what I was taught. It is possible to self-plagiarise, plagiarism only needs to be reproduction of a work with the claim it is your own original work.
I still think that's a ploy by journal publishers to prevent losing their exclusive extortion abilities, but that doesn't really make much difference to the end result.
Self-plagiarism to me is more of a related but separately defined term from "true plagiarism," but defining it based on work rather than author does make a lot of sense.