Indian plagiarism allegations under scrutiny

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<p>A letter of complaint from Stanford University physicists has led to an inquiry being established into alleged plagiarism by Balwant Singh Rajput, a high-energy physicist and vice-chancellor of Kumaun University, India.<BR><BR>Rajput and his group are accused of making minor changes to several papers by different authors, and publishing them under their own names.<BR><BR>Rajput says he is confident that the inquiry will find no truth in the allegations, and that members of his group had put his name on papers without his consent.<BR><BR><a href="http://www.nature.com/login/scidev_login.taf?ref=/nature/journal/v420/n6917/full/420726a_fs.html" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/tracking/external/'+this.href);" rel="noopener noreferrer">Link to <em>Nature</em> news in brief</A><BR><BR>Reference: <em>Nature</em> 420, 726 (2002)</p>

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A letter of complaint from Stanford University physicists has led to an inquiry being established into alleged plagiarism by Balwant Singh Rajput, a high-energy physicist and vice-chancellor of Kumaun University, India.

Rajput and his group are accused of making minor changes to several papers by different authors, and publishing them under their own names.

Rajput says he is confident that the inquiry will find no truth in the allegations, and that members of his group had put his name on papers without his consent.

Link to Nature news in brief

Reference: Nature 420, 726 (2002)