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) 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://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 [email protected] http://www.gpublication.com/jcer/ http://www.gpublication.com/jcer/?wicket:interface=:5:::: DIRECT LINK: 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 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 E-Mails: [email protected], [email protected] Personal URL: http://staff.iium.edu.my/sakib/ NDC Lab URL: http://staff.iium.edu.my/sakib/ndclab/ _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
