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Record W7100744060

Smith ( Funding Source: NSERC)

2009· article· en· W7100744060 on OpenAlexaboutno aff

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAcademic integrity and plagiarism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMisconductAction (physics)Minor (academic)False accusationLegal actionRemedial educationAdministration (probate law)Subpoena
DOInot available

Abstract

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Throughout 2005, I raised serious concerns about a large number of papers authored by Smith and Smith et al dating back to 1996. Allegations included deceptive selective reporting of findings, omission of conflicting data, falsification and fabrication of data, bogus authorship, and intentional republication of numerous papers under different titles and under different authorship. In all cases, allegations that were sent to your office and to NSERC were accompanied by significant documentations. Unfortunately in 2005, there was no transparent process for investigating the allegations in accordance with the Tri-Council Policy Statement. As a result, the investigation conducted by the university was superficial and incomplete and most allegations were left unanswered. In 2006, after receiving the university report, Council officials felt the university’s “remedial action ” was “rather minor in light of the many breaches of publication practices, ” Following a review by the CPSI, NSERC’s integrity committee recommended the council reprimand the University for conducting an investigation that “was found to lack thoroughness.” There is now considerable evidence showing that the remedial action taken by the university in 2006 was ineffective in preventing the reoccurrence of academic misconduct. The university administration should take responsibility for the re-emergence of this problem. Below, I present you with the allegations of academic misconduct concerning a paper which has been very recently published in the Canadian Journal of Physics. Allegations concerning other papers published between 2006-2009 will follow shortly after the funding source for each case is confirmed.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.047
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.502
Threshold uncertainty score0.716

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.047
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.004
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0060.003
Open science0.0030.004
Research integrity0.0050.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.4980.264

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.324
Teacher spread0.291 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2009
Admission routes1
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