[Tccc] Plagiarized paper aw...

Joe Touch touchatisi.edu
Tue Jan 15 02:43:07 EST 2013



 Hi, Sakib,

On 1/14/2013 7:54 PM, Al-Sakib Khan Pathan wrote:
> Dear Joe and all others,
> 
> Thank you for correcting me saying, "It is not appropriate to use this
> forum for such allegations."  

I don't think it is. Such allegations should be reported to the IEEE in the 
appropriate office that can take action, but publicly announcing the issue 
doesn't help because that office doesn't monitor the numerous email lists used 
by the IEEE.

> 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.

The policies of this list were in place when that message was posted too. I was 
chair of this TCCC at that time, and probably should have posted to the list 
regarding that message as well.

I had learned a lot during my time as chair of TCCC, in specific quite a bit 
about how the IEEE handles a few key issues such as plagiarism, and have tried 
to educate this list where I now know the specific solution, as I did in your 
case. I did not know those details as well when James posted.

> 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.

There isn't a "separate forum"; there's an office within the IEEE - supported 
by the dues of IEEE members (presumably most of those on this list) - to handle 
these issues.

They - not we - have the power to act when plagiarism is determined, to either 
remove offending material from Xplore (and replace it with an appropriate 
notice) or to invoke IEEE legal support in pursuing the matter with the 
organization who violated the IEEE copyright.

In summary, this list is the wrong place for your notice - and James' notice - 
because the parties who hold IEEE copyright (and *CAN* act) aren't on this list.

Joe

> ---
> 
> EMAIL 1
> =======
> 
> [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 <mailto:j... at sterbenz.org>>
> Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:17 AM
> To: TCCC TCCC <tccc at lists.cs.columbia.edu
> <mailto:tccc at lists.cs.columbia.edu>>
> Cc: "James P.G. Sterbenz" <j... at sterbenz.org <mailto: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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
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> <mailto:sa... at iium.edu.my>
> 
> Personal URL: http://staff.iium.edu.my/sakib/
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