Recenzie 10Olesia Mihai – plagiat copy/paste a tezei de doctorat


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Galben inseamna copiat copy/paste. Practic, toate paginile arata astfel.

Galben inseamna copiat copy/paste. Practic, toate paginile arata astfel.

Expertii confirma ca Dr Olesia Mihai (fosta Lupu) de la Universitatea “Al. I Cuza”, Iasi, Romania, a plgiat in extenso in teza de doctorat (April 2005, pe atunci student doctorand) din teza de doctorat din 1981 a Prof Jay W. Ruud, pe atunci la University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.

Dupa cum confirma expertii mai jos, printre care insusi profesorul Ruud, sute de pagini au fost preluate folosind copy/paste. Din cele 180 de pagini de continut efectiv, aproape 100% au fost identificate ca munca originala a profesorului Ruud, asa cum se poate observa din teza colorata comparata cu teza Prof Ruud (colorata si ea).

Merita mentionat ca teza de doctorat originala nu este disponibila online. Ea este arhivata sub forma unui microfilm si poate fi doar comandata si achizitionata de la ProQuest.

[14 Mai 2013] Olesia Mihai demisioneaza ca urmare a publicarii acestei Recenzii de catre Integru.org. A fost anuntata si o investiagatie de catre o comisie speciala a facultatii si comisia de etica a universitatii.

Carte publicata cu acelasi titlu, si posibil acelasi continut

CV-ul cat si pagina universitatii (captura ecran) arata ca in 2009 Olesia Mihai a publicat o carte cu acelasi titlu (in Romana): Lupu, O., Traditia medievala in scrierile lui Geoffrey Chaucer, Editura Sedcom Libris, Iasi, Romania, 2009, care aparent este in vanzare in librarii si posibil are acelasi continut cu teza de doctorat. Contacteaza-ne sau lasa un comentariu mao jos daca ai informatii legate de aceasta carte.

Promovare obtinuta ca urmare, imposibila fara carte

Aceasta carte a fost folosita pentru a obtine promovarea de la pozitia de Lector la cea de Conferentiar, asa cum confirma website-ul universitatii, vezi aici detaliile promovarii Olesiei Mihai, cu punctajele obtinute pentru a indeplini criteriile de promovare.  Cartea a contat 25 de puncte din minimul de 50 necesare promovarii, in mod cert cel mai semnificativ punctaj dintre toate realizarile Olesiei Mihai, al doilea punctaj cel mai mare fiind de doar 10 puncte.

Fara aceasta carte, Olesia Mihai nu ar fi indeplinit criteriile minimale, i.e. punctajul minim de 50 de puncte, necesare promovarii pe postul de Conferentiar, totalul obtinut fiind de 52.

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Prof Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, USA
Prof Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (web)
Department of English
Fordham University, USA
 . . .  It violates all norms of scholarly integrity in my field. It is unfortunately blatant and wholesale plagiarism in black and white. Although the plagiarising academic now works in a different  . . .

Q1. Conduita. In ce masura, acest material si conduita se conformeaza normelor etice, dupa cunostinta dumneavoastra?

It violates all norms of scholarly integrity in my field.

Q2. Zona gri. Exista elemente controversate care nu pot fi calificate in mod clar ca fiind abateri?

It is unfortunately blatant and wholesale plagiarism in black and white.

Q3. Urmari. In opinia dvs., care ar trebui sa fie urmarile in aceasta situatie? Puteti avea in vedere proceduri, asteptari intr-un context international, comparatii cu situatii similare, posibil impact etc.

Although the plagiarising academic now works in a different field, she has presumably benefited from having appeared to have earned a doctorate. In the last few years the President of Hungary and two leading German politicians have resigned from office when similar discoveries were made about their "PhDs". The question arises in this context of who can and should apply sanctions. This case is so flagrant that it calls for wider investigation of the culture and practices of the graduate school in which the perpetrator was educated. Is there adequate instruction about scholarly and academic practice and adequate inculcation of appropriate academic norms? What are the students taught about scholarly integrity? While an exemplary and deterrent case can be made of this individual, it would be shortsighted to do so without investigating how such violation of international standards was permitted to come about and whether there are more such instances.

Prof Jay Ruud, USA
Prof Jay Ruud (web)
Department of English
University of Central Arkansas, USA
 . . .  This complies with no ethical norms at all. This person has simply copied my dissertation, in most cases word for word, for hundreds of pages. There is no grey zone  . . .

Q1. Conduita. In ce masura, acest material si conduita se conformeaza normelor etice, dupa cunostinta dumneavoastra?

This complies with no ethical norms at all. This person has simply copied my dissertation, in most cases word for word, for hundreds of pages.

Q2. Zona gri. Exista elemente controversate care nu pot fi calificate in mod clar ca fiind abateri?

There is no grey zone here. Nothing here is legitimate. There has been no attempt by the plagiarist to add original research or to give credit to the real author.

Q3. Urmari. In opinia dvs., care ar trebui sa fie urmarile in aceasta situatie? Puteti avea in vedere proceduri, asteptari intr-un context international, comparatii cu situatii similare, posibil impact etc.

The plagiarist's Ph.D. granting institution should be notified that she received her degree under false pretenses. Further, since my dissertation was also published by Garland Press, they should be informed since they probably have a legal case against this person.

Prof Howell Chickering, USA
Prof Howell Chickering (web)
Departments of English; European Studies
Amherst College, USA
 . . .  This writing is cut & paste wholesale plagiarism, and does not comply with any ethical norms that I know of. NIo, the whole effort clearly qualifies as misconduct. This is  . . .

Q1. Conduita. In ce masura, acest material si conduita se conformeaza normelor etice, dupa cunostinta dumneavoastra?

This writing is cut & paste wholesale plagiarism, and does not comply with any ethical norms that I know of.

Q2. Zona gri. Exista elemente controversate care nu pot fi calificate in mod clar ca fiind abateri?

NIo, the whole effort clearly qualifies as misconduct.

Q3. Urmari. In opinia dvs., care ar trebui sa fie urmarile in aceasta situatie? Puteti avea in vedere proceduri, asteptari intr-un context international, comparatii cu situatii similare, posibil impact etc.

This is a flagrant, indeed shameless, plagiarism, and the outcome of the case should be a punishment that fits the crime. In my opinion, that means that whatever advantage this plagiarism gained the person, academic or economic, should be withdrawn or canceled. If this writing gained the person an academic post, it should be taken from her. At my institution, Amherst College (USA) she would be dismissed from her post and from working at the institution.

If the Romanian book is the same text, translated from English into Romanian, it shows truly bad faith and an intent to deceive. In my opinion, that calls for a further sanction.

At the same time, the CV shows a well-developed career of extensive teaching and publication in the area of Business English/Communications. This person is now in her early 40s probably, and is well established in this other area. I see no evidence in the documents you have sent me to suggest misconduct in this other area.

However, I think the possibility of misconduct in her other publications should be investigated

Prof Andrew Galloway, USA
Prof Andrew Galloway (web)
Department of Comparative Literature
Cornell University, USA
 . . .  doesn't comply; a stark case of full and direct plagiarism. no. But a full investigation would need to discover the norms and checks for producing doctoral or other academic work  . . .

Q1. Conduita. In ce masura, acest material si conduita se conformeaza normelor etice, dupa cunostinta dumneavoastra?

doesn't comply; a stark case of full and direct plagiarism.

Q2. Zona gri. Exista elemente controversate care nu pot fi calificate in mod clar ca fiind abateri?

no. But a full investigation would need to discover the norms and checks for producing doctoral or other academic work in this person's degree-granting institution; isolating a single flagrant case may distract from whatever lamentable situation allowed it. See answer to Q3.

Q3. Urmari. In opinia dvs., care ar trebui sa fie urmarile in aceasta situatie? Puteti avea in vedere proceduri, asteptari intr-un context international, comparatii cu situatii similare, posibil impact etc.

This is very difficult to speculate about without knowing more about the particulars of the event and what's been done about it since then. The case itself is not subtle; once the source is identified, a child could see that this is a piece of work that has simply had a new name put to another's work. And obviously whatever that piece of work is supposed to subtend (viz., completion of a PhD) cannot in fact be upheld.

The most productive outcome I can contemplate would be a searching investigation of the structure of advising, funding, mentoring, assessing, critiquing, and defending doctoral or any academic work at the institution in question. A simple outcome might be adding the requirement of international external examiners of all humanities doctoral theses, as is common elsewhere. A more labor-intensive outcome would be requiring regular consultations between students and their faculty chairs and committee members. I imagine that results like this would not be likely if those two changes were made. Unlike many cases of undergraduate plagiarism (with which I am more familiar), the evidence here is not subtle. A blatant individual case like this suggests to me that the problem is systemic. Rather than think of procedures for handling this individual case (which I feel both unqualified and reluctant to do), I think that one important outcome would be deeper and fuller investigation of the relevant local context of academic production, by political scientists, anthropologists, and smart administrators given the freedom to question all elements of the system, and motivated by an imperative to remake the ways in which academic production in the humanities is supported and supervised in Romania.

Raport

MISCONDUCT: PhD Thesis plagiarism, copy/paste
Severity Almost 100% out of 180 pages of content.
DOCUMENT: Medieval Tradition in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Writings (local copy)
INSTITUTION: “Al. I. Cuza” University, Iasi, Romania
DATE: 2005
AUTHOR: Olesia Mihai
POSITION (TIME OF WRITING): PhD candidate
PHD SUPERVISOR (TIME OF WRITING): Information pending. Please contact us if you have it or use the public comments below.
CURRENT POSITION: Promoted to Associate Professor from Lecturer based on the book that has the same title (and content?) as the PhD thesis

Documente

OFFENDING THESIS, HIGHLIGHTED: 2005-Mihai-PhD-Thesis
Prof Ruud's ORIGINAL THESIS, Highlighted: 1981-Ruud-PhD-Thesis
Promotion to Associate Professor Anexa-2-Mihai-Olesia
OLESIA MIHAI's CV Olesia-Mihai-CV

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  1. Plagiarism is something unfortunate, however I would appreciate here the resignation decision of the academic staff member unlike the previous similar cases targetting Ponta or Antonescu…

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