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RePEc plagiarism accused offenders: Cristian Socol and Aura Gabriela Socol

Identification

Name: Cristian Socol
Affiliation at time of decision: Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies

Name: Aura Gabriela Socol
Affiliation at time of decision: Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies

Facts

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Cristian Socol & Aura Gabriela Socol, 2007a. "Romanian Policy-Mix to Adopting Euro," Theoretical and Applied Economics, Asociatia Generala a Economistilor din Romania - AGER, vol. 9(514), pages 29-32, September. (local copy)

Cristian Socol & Aura Gabriela Socol, 2007b. "Romania's Real Convergence To EU - Dream Or Reality?," Theoretical and Applied Economics, Asociatia Generala a Economistilor din Romania - AGER, vol. 6(511)(su), pages 61-72, June. (local copy)

Marius-Corneliu Marinas, 2007. "The Role of Cohesion Policy in the Decision to Adhere to the Euro Area," Theoretical and Applied Economics, Asociatia Generala a Economistilor din Romania - AGER, vol. 4(509), pages 61-64, April. (local copy)

Romania's Government, 2006. "Convergence Programme," January. (local copy)

Significant parts of Socol and Socol (2007a) are taken from the other three works. In particular:

  1. Page 1, paragraph 1 is taken from the Romanian Convergence Programme (page 6, 4th paragraph)
  2. Page 2, paragraph 1 is taken from Socol and Socol (2007b) (page 1, 1th paragraph)
  3. Page 2, paragraph 2, last sentence is taken from the Romanian Convergence Programme (page 21, last sentence)
  4. Page 2, last two paragraphs are taken from the Romanian Convergence Programme (page 39, 3rd paragraph, and page 43, 2nd paragraph)
  5. Page 3, paragraph 1 is taken from the Romanian Convergence Programme (page 43, before section 5.6.2)
  6. Page 3, paragraph 2 is partially taken from the Romanian Convergence Programme (page 8, 3rd point in gray box)
  7. Page 3, paragraph 3 is taken from Socol and Socol (2007b) (page 2, last paragraph)
  8. Page 3, paragraph 4 is taken from Socol and Socol (2007b) (page 4, last paragraph into page 5)
  9. Page 3, paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 taken from Socol and Socol (2007b) (page 6)
  10. Page 3, paragraph 8 is taken from Socol and Socol (2007b) (page 9, 1st paragraph after table)
  11. Page 4 is taken from Marinas (2007) (page 2 and abstract)
Only the Romanian Convergence Programme is mentioned in the references, but not as a source for the borrowed text.

Response of accused offenders

The committee has not received a response.

Committee decision


YES Notification of offender superiors
YES Notification of editor published plagiarising work
YES Request of removal of plagiarising work
YES Notification of afflicted author(s)
YES Notification of afflicted editor
NO Banning of author from RePEc Author Service
YES Publication on RePEc plagiarism page

Further developments

Several weeks after the response, the accused offenders offered a response. Note that messages to Yahoo email addresses did not bounce.

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