China is #2 in academic papers … but …
Posted on January 9th, 2010 by Michael
BBC NEWS: In China ‘ghost-writing” of academic papers is widespread. Click for full article …
More than $100m (£63m) changes hands in China every year for ghost-written academic papers, according to research by a Chinese university.
The study, by Wuhan University, says Chinese academics and students often buy and sell scientific papers to swell publications lists.
Many of the purported authors never write the papers they sign. China ranks second behind the United States by number of academic papers published every year.
June 28th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
sounds like someone else is doing the thinking for them
January 13th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
In the west we look down on such practices as plagiarism however many Asian cultures (and I dont know if China is one of them) see quoting someone else as showing respect to them. It’s only a small step to copying others work verbatim or taking thier work and claiming it as your own.
In the end the value of the material in the papers and how the material can benefit mankind is more important than who claims credit for it however the article suggests that much of this work is dodgy and put together just to be sold. It would be a real pity if that was the case.
January 10th, 2010 at 4:33 am
Very Interesting development know how.How posible.
Erik
January 9th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
Academic paper fraud is wrong, but better than nothing.