Dănuț Marcu (born 11 January 1952) is a Romanian mathematician and computer scientist. He claimed to have authored more than 400 scientific papers.[1]
He received graduated with degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Bucharest and his Ph.D. from the same university in 1981.[1] His doctoral thesis, Algebraic and Combinatorial Methods for the Study of the Connectivity of Finite Networks, was written under the direction of Sergiu Rudeanu.[1][2]
Marcu was frequently accused of plagiarism.[3][4][5][6] The editors of Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai, Informatica decided to ban Marcu from their journal for this reason,[7] as did the editors of 4OR[8][9] and the editors of Geombinatorics.[10] The editors of Geometriae Dedicata state that they suspect Marcu of plagiarism, as he submitted a manuscript which is "more-or-less word for word the same" as a paper by Bernt Lindström.[11] Jerrold W. Grossman, Sanpei Kageyama, Martin R. Pettet, and anonymous reviewers have accused Marcu of plagiarism in MathSciNet reviews.[12] According to the managing editors of Menemui Matematik, Marcu's paper in that journal is a well known result in graph theory, and the paper "should not have been published".[13]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Marcu's personal web page.
- ^ Dănuț Marcu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "1.8 A notorious mathematical problem", Graduate Skills Courses: Good practice in citation and the avoidance of plagiarism, Oxford University, archived from the original on 2013-04-19, retrieved 2013-03-05,
it is his reputation as a prolific plagiariser of academic papers which is the source of his notoriety in the academic and publishing communities
. - ^ Shahabuddin, Syed (2009), "Plagiarism in Academia" (PDF), International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 21 (3): 353–359. This paper quotes Bouyssou, Martello & Plastria (2006) concerning Marcu, including the quote from an unnamed "well-known mathematician" that "Marcu is a notorious plagiarist".
- ^ Buckeridge, John S.; Watts, Rob (2012), "On ethics, the pursuit of knowledge, truth and status in the hallowed halls of academe", Integrative Zoology, 8 (3): 223–231, doi:10.1111/j.1749-4877.2012.12007.x, PMID 24020462,
Individual cases of academic plagiarism continue to attract significant media attention. Mathematician and computer scientist Danut Marcu claimed to have published over 383 original papers in various scientific publications. A number of his recent papers were shown to be exact copies of papers published earlier by other authors.
. - ^ Honig, Benson; Bedi, Akansha (2012), "The Fox in the Hen House: A Critical Examination of Plagiarism Among Members of the Academy of Management" (PDF), Academy of Management Learning & Education, 11 (1): 101–123, doi:10.5465/amle.2010.0084,
Another example of a habitual plagiarizer is found in the field of management sciences, where author Dănuț Marcu published three plagiarized papers in Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Series Informatica during 2002–2003 and subsequently tried to publish another "lifted" piece in the Quarterly Journal of Operations Research ... Marcu was subsequently "outed" and banned from publishing his work in the above journals. The plagiarized rejected piece from 4OR was later published in another journal.
[permanent dead link] - ^ "Apology on plagiarism papers" (PDF), Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai, Informatica, 49: 112, 2004, archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-24, retrieved 2006-11-24
- ^ Bouyssou, Denis; Martello, Silvano; Plastria, Frank (2006), "The Case of plagiarism: Dănuț Marcu (editorial note)" (PDF), 4OR, 4: 11–13, doi:10.1007/s10288-006-0087-0, ISSN 1619-4500, S2CID 9836134, archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-06-16, retrieved 2006-11-24 See also Graph Theory publications “authored” by Dănuț Marcu and an example (compare with the original) at the 4OR website.
- ^ Editorial note by Bouyssou, Martello, and Plastria Plagiarism again: Sreenivas and Srinivas, with an update on Marcu at the 4OR website
- ^ Soifer, Alexander (2007), "The Case of Dr. Dănuț Marcu: Serial Plagiarism and Signing False Statements", Geombinatorics, XVI (3): 293–296 One of the plagiarized works discovered by Soifer was written by noted mail-bomber Theodore Kaczynski.
- ^ Karl Strambach and Ferdinand D. Veldkamp, "Editorial statement", Geometriae Dedicata 32 (1989), p. 253; see also Zbl 0701.51004 and MR1038400.
- ^ MathSciNet Reviews MR2192785, MR2097141, MR2060125, MR2031651, MR2031645, MR2024191, MR1961850, and MR1899818 by Grossman; MathSciNet Review MR1666961 by Kageyama; MathSciNet Review MR1795035 by Pettet; MathSciNet Reviews MR1856038, MR1739530, MR1427830, and MR1324075 by anonymous reviewers.
- ^ MR2281788
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