You know what I hate? Cheaters.
Today I realized that there are two papers, in two journals, with identical images. It was the photoluminescence that I first noticed. Then I realized that some the TEMs were the same too. And the XRD. I added a few pics for your judgment.
So what are those images really of? I cannot trust anything in either of those papers now. We have all published results that are extensions of previous results, but that should be a mention with a reference, not a re-publication of data and images. As far as I can tell, there is not reference from one paper to the other. Fishy.
I hope you got tenure, or what ever it was that you were going for. This probably will catch up to you one day.
3 comments:
send it to the editor! another blog found another striking "similarity" in two papers, and it actually got retracted:
http://blog.everydayscientist.com/?p=1175
Who are the papers from? Just so we stop trusting them as well. Julie had the same happen form a paper of their lab, excpet 90% of the paper was plagiarized!
'Part from that, how's life?
That's weak! You should send a letter to the editors of the journal...or write your own paper using those results :)
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