Korean scientist said to be serial plagiarist

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Korean scientist said to be serial plagiarist

A Korean scientist has been found to have plagiarized a large number of papers from foreign language journals, the science magazine Nature reported in its latest edition. Nature said eight papers about materials science published by Park Yung between 1997 and 2001 were identical in many cases to papers originally published in Russian. Mr. Park received his doctorate degree in 1997 from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon. He later became a visiting scientist at the University of Cambridge under a fellowship from the British Council. Mr. Park published about 80 papers between 1995 and 2002. Nature said Mr. Park left Cambridge in April 2002, when he was confronted with evidence he had plagiarized. Bagautdin Bagautdinov, a materials scientist based at the Himeji Institute of Technology in Japan, identified his own work under Mr. Park’s name. Afterwards, researchers at KAIST and other researchers have discovered other examples of plagiarism in Mr. Park’s papers. Mr. Park was appointed professor of Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea, in 2002 after he left Cambridge but he resigned in the same year when the university found that he had plagiarized papers published at international science journals. Nature reported that other papers published by Park had not been fully investigated. The science magazine said universities and journals do not have appropriate mechanisms for responding to plagiarism and called for establishing guidelines to counter the conduct. Four papers published by Mr. Park were on line because researchers failed to pass on evidence of plagiarism to journal editors or because editors were informed and took no action, Nature said. by Shim Jae-woo
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