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RePEc plagiarism offenders

Recognized by the RePEc plagiarism committee

Reverse chronological listing of plagiarism offenders, as established by the committee following the procedures. Affiliation is as of the time of the decision.
  1. Tuncay Kararti and Zeki Yüksekbilgili (universidad Azteca and Avrasay University)
  2. Mitch Kunce
  3. Victor Manole, Nicolae Istudor and Dan Boboc (Bucharest Academy of Economic Sciences)
  4. Carmen Lenuta Trica and Marilena Papuc (Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies)
  5. Mihaela Roberta Stanef (Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies)
  6. Ben Soltane Bassem (Higher Institute of Business Administration of Gafsa, Tunisia)
  7. Aidong Liu and Jinfang Liu (Central South University)
  8. Zhu Qingyu
  9. Pier Giogio Ardeni (Università degli Studi di Bologna)
  10. Aura Gabriela Socol and Cristian Socol (Bucharest Academy of Economic Sciences)
  11. Carlos Pestana Barros (Technical University of Lisbon)
  12. Carlos Pestana Barros (Technical University of Lisbon)
  13. Sylvester Jatta
  14. Sylvester Jatta
  15. Sylvester Jatta
  16. Jixiang Wang (School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, Nanjing), Qingli Da (School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, Nanjing), Yanhua Wang (School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Min Hang)
  17. Cosmin Marinescu (Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest)
  18. Cosmin Marinescu (Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest)
  19. Dorel Ailenei (Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest) and Amalia Cristescu (Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest)
  20. Arshia Amiri (GREQAM) and Bruno Ventelou (GREQAM and SE4S)
  21. Arshia Amiri (GREQAM) and Ulf-G. Gerdtham (Lund University and Swedish Institute for Health Economics)
  22. Arshia Amiri (GREQAM)
  23. Alexandru Negrila (Intertel Communications SRL)
  24. Francisco F. Ribeiro Ramos (Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração de Coimbra, ISCAC)
  25. Cristiana Tudor (Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti) and Radu Lupu (Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti and Academia Romana)
  26. Soumitra Kumar Bera (North-Eastern Hill University)

Other documented cases

The following cases are public and documented. The RePEc plagiarism committee was not involved in them. Listed alphabetically.

Plagiarism

  1. Carlos Pestana Barros: plagiarizing, plagiarized, apology
  2. Carlos Pestana Barros, Laurent Botti, Nicolas Peypoch, and Bernardin Solonandrasana: plagiarizing, plagiarized, apology
  3. Carlos Pestana Barros and Peter U.C Dieke: plagiarizing, plagiarized, apology
  4. Carlos Pestana Barros and Peter U.C. Dieke: plagiarizing, plagiarized, apology
  5. Carlos Pestana Barros and Nicolas Peypoch: plagiarizing, plagiarized, apology
  6. Eugene Z. Geh: plagarizing, plagiarized
  7. Hans Werner Gottinger: plagiarizing (chapter 6, Google Books), published version of plagiarized
  8. Hans Werner Gottinger: plagiarizing, published version of plagiarized
  9. Hans Werner Gottinger: plagiarizing, plagiarized, discussion
  10. Hans Werner Gottinger: plagiarizing, plagiarized, retraction.
  11. Hans Werner Gottinger: plagiarizing, plagiarized.
  12. Mekki Hamdaoui: plagiarizing, plagiarized. NEW
  13. Wolfgang Knapp and Peter Schmitt: plagiarizing, plagiarized, plagiarized, plagiarized, plagiarized, retraction.
  14. Conway L. Lackman: plagiarizing, plagiarized, retraction.
  15. Fan-Yong Liu: plagiarizing, plagiarized, retraction.
  16. Bashar H. Malkawi: plagiarizing, plagiarized.
  17. Mohsen Mehrara, Ali Moeini, Mehdi Ahrari and Ali Erfanifard: plagiarizing, plagiarized.
  18. John F. Nofsinger: plagiarizing, retraction.
  19. Konstantinos Papadoulis: plagiarizing, plagiarized, retraction
  20. Argentino Pessoa: retraction, plagiarized.
  21. Francisco F. Ribeiro Ramos: plagiarizing, plagiarized, correction.
  22. Francisco F. Ribeiro Ramos: plagiarizing, plagiarized, plagiarized, correction
  23. Georgiana Nicoleta Rosoi: plagiarizing, plagiarized, retraction.
  24. Yasmin Said, Edward Wegman, Walid Sharabati and John Rigsby: plagiarizing, retraction.
  25. Brian Swart (4): story.
  26. Kevin Tang, David A. Robinson and Michael Harvey: plagiarizing, plagiarized, retraction.
  27. Hsing-Chau Tseng, Chi-Hsiang Duan, Hui-Lien Tung and Hsiang-Jui Kung: plagiarizing, erratum.

Self-plagiarism

  1. S. Balan, Prem Vrat and Pradeep Kumar: plagiarizing, plagiarizing, retraction
  2. Scott Baum, Anthea Bill and William F. Mitchell: plagiarizing, plagiarizing, retraction
  3. Frank Bruinsma, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp: plagiarizing, retraction
  4. Hsu-Ling Chang, Chi-Wei Su and Meng-Nan Zhu: plagiarizing, plagiarizing, retraction
  5. Bruno Frey, David Savage and Benno Torgler: plagiarizing, plagiarizing, plagiarizing, plagiarizing, retraction, retraction.
  6. Daniel Gervini: plagiarizing, retraction.
  7. Paul Hamalainen, Maximilian Hall and Barry Howcroft: plagliarizing, plagiarized, plagiarized, retraction.
  8. Ulrich Lichtenthaler: plagiarizing, plagiarizing (also listed in fraud section)
  9. Jungwon Min and Hitoshi Mitsuhashi: plagiarizing, plagiarized, retraction
  10. Peter Nijkamp: plagiarizing, retraction
  11. Mohammad Salam: plagiarizing, plagiarized, retraction
  12. Sheng-Dong Wang, Yong-Wu Zhou and Jun-Ping Wang: plagiarizing, plagiarized, retraction.

Fraud

  1. Ulrich Lichtenthaler: Statistical embellishment (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
  2. Kalid Zaman: Fake peer reviews (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, background)
  3. Fred O. Walumbwa, David M. Mayer, Peng Wang, Hui Wang, Kristina Workman, Amanda L. Christensen: concerns about statistical analysis (article, expression of concern)
  4. James E. Hunton: Fabricated or manipulated data (1, 2, 3) Retractions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. More details.

Alphabetical listing of all authors

  1. Ahrari, Mehdi
  2. Ailenei, Dorel
  3. Amiri, Arshia (3)
  4. Ardeni, Pier Giorgio
  5. Balan, S.
  6. Barros, Carlos Pestana (7)
  7. Bassem, Ben Soltane
  8. Baum, Scott
  9. Bera, Soumitra Kumar
  10. Bill, Anthea
  11. Boboc, Dan
  12. Botti, Laurent
  13. Bruinsma, Frank
  14. Chang, Hsu-Ling
  15. Christensen, Amanda L.
  16. Cristescu, Amalia
  17. Da, Qingli
  18. Dieke, Peter U.C. (2)
  19. Duan, Chi-Hsiang
  20. Erfanifard, Ali
  21. Frey, Bruno
  22. Geh, Eugene Z.
  23. Gerdtham, Ulf-G.
  24. Gervini, Daniel
  25. Gottinger, Hans Werner (5)
  26. Hall, Maximilian
  27. Hamalainen, Paul
  28. Hamdaoui, Mekki
  29. Harvey, Michael
  30. Howcroft, Barry
  31. Hunton, James E. (5)
  32. Istudor, Nicolae
  33. Jatta, Sylvester (3)
  34. Kararti, Tuncay
  35. Knapp, Wolfgang
  36. Kourtit, Karima
  37. Kumar, Pradeep
  38. Kunce, Mitch
  39. Kung, Hsiang-Jui
  40. Lackman, Conway L.
  41. Lichtenthaler, Ulrich (6)
  42. Liu, Aidong
  43. Liu, Fan-Yong
  44. Liu, Jinfang
  45. Lupu, Radu
  46. Malkawi, Bashar H.
  47. Manole, Victor
  48. Marinescu, Cosmin (2)
  49. Mayer, David M.
  50. Mehrara, Mohsen
  51. Min, Jungwon
  52. Mitchell, William F.
  53. Mitsuhashi, Hitoshi
  54. Moeini, Ali
  55. Negrila, Alexandru
  56. Nijkamp, Peter (2)
  57. Nofsinger, John F.
  58. Papadopoulis, Konstantinos
  59. Papuc, Marilena
  60. Pessoa, Argentino
  61. Peypoch, Nicolas (2)
  62. Ribeiro Ramos, Francisco F. (3)
  63. Rigsby, John
  64. Robinson, David A.
  65. Rosoi, Georgiana Nicoleta
  66. Said, Yasmin
  67. Salam, Mohammad
  68. Savage, David
  69. Schmitt, Peter
  70. Sharabati, Walid
  71. Socol, Aura Gabriela
  72. Socol, Cristian
  73. Solonandrasana, Bernardin
  74. Stanef, Mihaela Roberta
  75. Su, Chi-Wei
  76. Swart, Brian (4)
  77. Tang, Kevin
  78. Torgler, Benno
  79. Trica, Carmen Lenuta
  80. Tseng, Hsing-Chau
  81. Tudor, Cristiana
  82. Tung, Hui-Lien
  83. Ventelou, Bruno
  84. Vrat, Prem
  85. Walumbwa, Fred O.
  86. Wang, Hui
  87. Wang, Jun-Ping
  88. Wang, Peng
  89. Wang, Sheng-Dong
  90. Wang, Yanhua
  91. Wegman, Edward
  92. Workman, Kristina
  93. Yüksekbilgili, Zeki
  94. Zaman, Khalid (16)
  95. Zhang, Jikiang
  96. Zhou, Yong-Wu
  97. Zhu, Meng-Nan

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