Consultant cleared after writing misleading reference

Misleading Reference

We just became aware that the article [1] published in Entropy 2009 contains a false reference. From the list of references in [1] one gets the impression that the manuscript [2] has been accepted for publication in the journal Biophyical Chemestry. We have contacted the editors of that journal and they could tell us that [2] is a rejected manuscript, which is also the reason why the manuscript...

Becoming a Writing Consultant: The Initial Experiences of Working in an Academic Writing Centre

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A reference comments crawler for assisting research paper writing

When writing a research paper, significant effort is spent comparing the current work to other related studies. In general, these comparisons comprise the ‘Related Work’ section of the paper, with the relevant reference papers cited and analyzed. An automatic method for gathering and managing information about other researchers’ reviews of reference papers would reduce the time and effort neede...

McBrien cleared of plagiarism complaint

A c o m p la in t of p la g ia r ism a g a in s t th eo lo g y p ro fe s s o r F a th e r R ichard McBrien was recently dismissed by theology d e p a r t m e n t c h a i r Jo h n C a v a d i n i , ac c o rd in g to an a r t ic le in the N ational C a t h o l i c R e p o r t e r p u b l i s h e d today. “Although I d id no t r e l e a s e the McBrien University investigator’s report to th e N a ...