Plagirism again, please join the discussion on research gate

[Louise McNally]

Dear Valia,

I appreciate your point. You are right that this is a very delicate 
matter and that this is something first and foremost between Stefan and 
the person in question. Stefan, perhaps you can find help in the 
guidelines posted here:

http://publicationethics.org/

Louise

On 30/03/14 09:54, Valia Kordoni wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I personally feel (from the first moment I read the original message)
> extremely uncomfortable that all this sensitive info is being discussed on
> a mailing list, and we are all implicitly/explicitly being asked to pass
> judgements on the scientific deeds and the quality of such deeds of a
> (female) person, and to take sides. Is she a member of any of the lists
> where the original email went to? How can she participate in the
> discussion and get the chance to defend herself, if there is anything to
> defend and if she can? I am really sorry to say this. I strongly believe
> that such issues should be taken to and resolved by justice bodies/courts:
> defaming someone is bad an offence as plagiarism.
>
> Regards,
> Valia
>
> On Sun, March 30, 2014 09:33, Louise McNally wrote:
>> About this I can provide some information:
>>
>>   >As for her university: Non of this stuff was peer reviewed
>> (fortunately). I wonder how the university rates the output of their
>> employees.
>>
>> This person is the equivalent of a tenure-track assistant professor. She
>> will have to go through accreditation by a national agency in order to
>> be able to apply for tenure. If she has not gone through that process
>> yet, this information would obviously be useful to her university
>> (getting it to the agency directly is not a simple process). I would be
>> surprised if she were to get accredited without peer-reviewed
>> publications, but there are many levels of peer review, and I'm not sure
>> to what extent the agency requires publications in indexed journals as
>> opposed to national level journals where the peer review process is not
>> rigorous.
>>
>> Louise
>>
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