[Orechem] Crystallography and fraud

[Lee Giles]

There are many ways to address this. We could create a data and text
plagiarism detector.
CiteSeerX hopes to have a text similarity detection system up soon.
There are other
plagiarism detectors such as Turnitin that can be used for text. Penn
State has licensed
it for our courses.

To do this, however, requires access to text and data which we don't
easily have in
chemistry.

Lee

Coles S.J. wrote:
> This has caused a massive amount of talk in the crystallographic community (filling my inbox somewhat!). Here's another case that has come to light
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> http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56226/
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> and there have been other cases in different journals from the same Acta E authors and even claims of direct 100% plagiarism of journal articles - text, figures etc (not just the crystal structure data!).
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> Ecrystals and OREChem would help address this problem, as it arises in part from:
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> "What we know is that when Dr. Murthy was asked to provide the data behind the structures, there was not sufficient material presented to allow the expert panel to determine the source of the error,"
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> Provenance and clear availability of underlying data is crucial and we can help here! We should try to use these incidents to our benefit...
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> Simon.
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> Simon Coles.
> Co-Director, EPSRC National Crystallography Service.
> School of Chemistry,
> University of Southampton.
> Southampton, SO17 1BJ. UK.
> t: +44(0)2380596722
> f: +44(0)2380596723
> e: s.j.coles at soton.ac.uk
> www: http://www.soton.ac.uk/chemistry/research/coles/coles.html
> NCS: http://www.ncs.chem.soton.ac.uk
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> On 05/01/2010 22:02, "mpierce at cs.indiana.edu" <mpierce at cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
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> An interesting little editorial about fraudulent structures that the
> crystallographers on the list have probably also read:
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> http://journals.iucr.org/e/issues/2010/01/00/me0406/index.html
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> Marlon
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