[Tccc] Plagiarized paper aw...
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan
sakib.pathanatgmail.com
Mon Jan 14 22:54:27 EST 2013
Dear Joe and all others,
Thank you for correcting me saying, "It is not appropriate to use this
forum for such allegations."
I wrote, may be I am violating TCCC posting norms. I understand that you
and some other have got the positions to correct us many times and direct
us what to do when. Also, I understand that I have to use this forum for
posting and keeping the professional relationship. However, I suggest not
employing a double-standard when a common platform is used. The correction
should start from the top and we would follow.
The following email was posted (recorded here) by James on Nov 19, 2011 at
10:17 AM. If the policies are enacted later, I hope this email could make
all of us aware of this and thank you for warning me.
If you think the following email was necessary for the overall community
for its benefit, then you should also consider changing some policies of
posting so that such awareness can be gained by all. Creating a separate
forum would simply make things complex and one or two extra emails of such
kinds won't be detrimental. You have a good structure where many renowned
and honorable people are connected, but make please no difference in
posting when the truth is presented. Thank you.
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[Tccc] Plethora of open access journals and an amazingly brazen example of
plagiarism in one of them
James P.G. Sterbenz <j... at sterbenz.org> Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:17 AM
To: TCCC TCCC <tccc at lists.cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: "James P.G. Sterbenz" <j... at sterbenz.org>
Apologies in advance for the length of this, but I thought it important
post full details.
As we keep seeing CFPs from more and more open access journals led by
people we've never heard of, I've been tempted to bring the subject up here.
I'm very much in favour of open access, and along the lines of the recent
discussions I think that there are three ways to do this:
1. Pressure traditional societies like the IEEE and ACM and for-profit
publishers like Springer and Elsevier to further open up. My university
just signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access.
2. Convince our funding agencies to require this along the lines of the
NIH. Along these lines there is a
Request for Information: Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly
Publications Resulting From Federally Funded Research
http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/11/04/2011-28623/request-for-information-public-access-to-peer-reviewed-scholarly-publications-resulting-from
3. We do it ourselves and move as editorial boards to create new
*legitimate* open access journals. Some academic communities are doing
this.
(For the record while I support the sprit of the petition that has been
discussed, I do not support the means of not volunteering to review in
venues to which you submit.)
Which gets to the trigger for this email. One of my PhD students
discovered that our paper:
"Performance Analysis of the AeroTP Transport Protocol for Highly-Dynamic
Airborne Telemetry Networks"
Kamakshi Sirisha Pathapati, Nguyn Ngc Trc Anh, Justin P. Rohrer, and
James P.G. Sterbenz,
International Telemetering Conference (ITC) Oct. 2011
https://wiki.ittc.ku.edu/resilinets/ResiliNets_Publications#.E2.80.9CPerformance_Analysis_of_the_AeroTP_Transport_Protocol_for_Highly-Dynamic_Airborne_Telemetry_Networks.E2.80.9D
(an abstract-reviewed conference in which we publish a number of student
papers because our DoD funding sponsors are heavily involved; we put our
copy online this summer after DoD clearance)
has appeared as
"Experimental Evaluation of AeroTP Protocol for Airborne Telemetry Networks"
Arun Prasath Siva Thanu Pillai
IJCSNS International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
Volume 11, issue 9
http://ijcsns.org/
This journal has a stunningly fast turnaround time; the notation at the
bottom of the paper indicates that it was received 5 Sep., revised 20 Sep,
and apparently online 30 Sep. I guess this is possible if there is no
review. Except for the title (in part stolen from another one of our
papers at the same conference) the paper appears *identical* except for the
plethora of OCR transcription errors. The authors even kept the language
talking about the previous work while still referencing our own papers and
left the acknowledgements to my DoD contract. The scanned figures are
pretty unreadable. Even a cursory examination by a human should have
raised suspicion. In this case after a bit of searching on the Web I
believe the author is applying to graduate schools in the US, and the
motivation must have been fill up the CV.
This leads to the question: Is IJCSNS a complete scam? The Web site
indicates an address of Dae-Sang Office 301, Sangdo 5 dong 509-1, Dongjack
Gu, Seoul 156-743, Korea. Do any of my Korean colleagues know about them?
There is only one contact email for IJCSNS, but there are affiliations of
the editors, so I will next try to track them down and attempt to contact
them.
Are all of these new open access journals popping up intended as a way for
people to load their CVs with journal publications? What institutions
would be naive enough to not realise they are bogus? It appears that we've
got an increasing problem, and we probably all need to be vigilant on what
is going on. In this case, the plagiarised paper is already in Google
Scholar, so I'll have to see if there is a manual takedown process there,
as well as DBLP, MS Academic Search, Citeseer, etc.
Sigh.
James
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Regards,
Sakib
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Joe Touch <to... at isi.edu> wrote:
> Hi, Anand (et al.),
>
> If you have a case concerning potential plagiarism that involves work
> published in IEEE Xplore (either the original work or the alleged
> plagiarized work), I encourage you to review the instructions available at
> the IEEE Intellectual Property Rights Office:
>
> http://www.ieee.org/**publications_standards/**
> publications/rights/index.html<http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/index.html>
>
> They provide a FAQ on how best to resolve cases of alleged plagiarism.
>
> It is not appropriate to use this forum for such allegations.
>
> Joe Touch
> IEEE ComSoc Director of Conference Operations
>
>
> On 1/13/2013 10:51 PM, Al-Sakib Khan Pathan wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> Though, this could be an off-topic and may violate the norms of posting to
>> TCCC, I feel it is necessary to write a few lines as this is one of the
>> most active groups. No reply is expected to avoid unnecessary flooding,
>> but
>> this is sent to a wide range of editors and researchers to be aware of
>> such
>> submissions.
>>
>> It may be okay if someone takes other person's idea partially and improves
>> or uses it elsewhere giving proper credits or citations. However, the case
>> of plagiarism, often with exact copy or slightly modified version has
>> increased in recent days. From my given roles, I have encountered several
>> such matters in various events, many of which have come out from
>> especially
>> South India and China. Just to understand the matter, I have mentioned the
>> names of the exact places and it should not be taken as a statement
>> against
>> anybody but what is evident among the submissions caught. Often, such
>> individuals (claimed authors) are bold enough to post their documents in
>> public.
>>
>> Let us see someone who claims to be, "Academician, Researcher, Scholar,
>> Author, Innovator, Hacker"
>> (http://www.anandnayyar.com/**home.aspx<http://www.anandnayyar.com/home.aspx>
>> )
>>
>> Here's a blatant plagiarism case. From Editor's position, often it is not
>> possible to verify such cases, hence the burden lies on the reviewers who
>> commented on it and of course on the person who submitted. It can happen
>> in
>> apparently good journals as well. Sometimes these matters are not solved
>> (I
>> have communicated many for several times) and we could at best do our part
>> by warning the person (which may not work).
>>
>> *OUR ORIGINAL paper:*
>> http://networking.khu.ac.kr/**publications/data/Security%**
>> 20in%20Wireless%20Sensor%**20Networks%20Issues%20and%**20Challenges.pdf<http://networking.khu.ac.kr/publications/data/Security%20in%20Wireless%20Sensor%20Networks%20Issues%20and%20Challenges.pdf>
>> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/**xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=**1625756&tag=1<http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1625756&tag=1>
>> *
>> Plagiarized Paper
>> ----------------------------*
>> Security Issues & Challenges in Wireless Sensor Networks
>> Author: Anand Nayyar Assistant Professor Department of Computer
>> Applications & IT KCL Institute of Management and Technology, Jalandhar,
>> India
>> anand_nay... at yahoo.co.in
>>
>> http://www.gpublication.com/**jcer/ <http://www.gpublication.com/jcer/>
>> http://www.gpublication.com/**jcer/?wicket:interface=:5::<http://www.gpublication.com/jcer/?wicket:interface=:5::>
>> ::
>> DIRECT LINK:
>> http://www.gpublication.com/**jcer/?wicket:interface=:5:**
>> issuelist:5:fulltext::**ILinkListener<http://www.gpublication.com/jcer/?wicket:interface=:5:issuelist:5:fulltext::ILinkListener>
>> ::
>>
>> Again posted in:
>> http://www.anandnayyar.com/**pdf/2011/Security_Issues__**
>> Challenges_in_Wireless_Sensor_**Networks.pdf<http://www.anandnayyar.com/pdf/2011/Security_Issues__Challenges_in_Wireless_Sensor_Networks.pdf>
>>
>> Searchable in Google.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sakib
>>
>>
--
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Ph.D.
Founding Head, NDC
Laboratory<http://staff.iium.edu.my/sakib/ndclab/index.html>,
KICT, IIUM
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Kulliyyah (Faculty) of Information and Communication Technology
International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
Jalan Gombak, 53100, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
Tel: +603-61964000 Ext. 5653, Cell: +60163910754
E-Mails: spat... at ieee.org, sa... at iium.edu.my
Personal URL: http://staff.iium.edu.my/sakib/
NDC Lab URL: http://staff.iium.edu.my/sakib/ndclab/
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