摘要: |
SCENARIO A complaint is forwarded to the editor of an ASCE technical journal about a paper recently published in die journal. The complainant states that the papers author, a civil engineering professor at a large state university, had served as her faculty adviser during completion of the complainants Ph.D. thesis. The complainant alleges that she had made substantial contributions to both the research and the writing of the published paper; in fact, she claims, some sections of the professor's paper had been lifted directly from the complainants thesis, though the former neither cited her thesis as a source nor named her as a co-author. |