最近，有关学术造假被曝光的事件，将清华大学推向了风口浪尖。

据

澎湃新闻

报道，国外“Retraction Watch（

撤稿观察

）”报告了一起跟清华大学相关的撤稿事件：有11篇材料科学领域的论文因学术不端遭撤稿。这些论文的发表日期主要集中在2014年到2016年。

21日，清华大学深圳研究生院发表相关事件公告。针对博士研究生叶肖鑫11篇论文撤稿事件，校方对其涉及严重学术不端的问题进行了严肃处理，撤销其

博士学位

，同时对其导师唐国翌追责问责。

公告中还表示，早在2016年3月唐国翌教授就收到了对叶肖鑫为第一作者所发表论文可能存在学术问题的举报。

A

Tsinghua

University PhD student and his doctoral

advisor

were revoked of their respective degrees and job titles after at least 11 publi

she

d papers authored by the pair were retracted from international academic journals for various misconduct.

Initial reports uncovering potential problems in these published studies surfaced in March 2016, according to the school’s

statement

on Oct. 21

不过，目前还不清楚是在此前已经公布了相关信息，还是在《撤稿观察》披露、大量媒体跟进关注后，学校才发出了通告。

However, it's unclear whether the university disclosed the information previously, or issued the late statement after the recent allegation surfaced on Retraction Watch, a blog which reports on scientific papers being retracted, and the growing media

coverage

on the topic which has garnered widespread attention.

校方在通告中表示：“2017年1月，校学术委员会成立专门工作组进行调查并经学术

道德

分委员会讨论，认定叶肖鑫存在严重学术不端行为，其导师唐国翌对此负有指导管理方面的责任。2017年4月28日，校学位评定委员会召开全体会议，决定撤销叶肖鑫

博士学位

，该处理结果在校内进行了公告。2017年6月，我院停止唐国翌教授招收研究生资格，撤销其材料学科负责人和

新材料

研究所副所长职务，目前其已办理退休手续。”

The

statement

revealed that

Tsinghua

's branch in Shenzhen City, south China's Guangdong Province, had stripped Ye of his PhD degree on Apr 28, 2017, and removed Tang, the

advisor

– who has retired now – of his position as head of the materials department and deputy director of the

New

Materials Research Institute in the following June, as the result of an internal investigation launched by the school committee in Jan. 2017.

《撤稿观察》网站例举其自我抄袭等学术不端行为：包括内容重复、图片篡改、编造数据以及虚假署名。

Evidence of the misconduct, unveiled by Retraction Watch, involves self-plagiarism including content duplication, image manipulation, data fabrication, as well as deceptive authorship such as fake signatures, and other issues.

据《中国科学网》援引《

撤稿观察

》网站报道，例如在论文《材料科学与工程C》（Materials Science and Engineering: C）的撤稿声明指出，论文中一系列图片复制了以往发表的论文，一位国外作者既未参与工作，也未授权署名，期刊编辑要求撤回该论文；而《材料研究杂志》（Journal of Materials Research）的一篇论文中，通讯作者唐国翌称第一作者叶肖鑫复制了图片，提出撤稿。

学者Hanna Tiainen和同事们率先发现了这一问题。Hanna认为判断出这些论文的问题并不难，只不过由于涉及学者及出版物，所以牵扯层面较多。

The case, however, was first spotted by Hanna Tiainen, a Norwich scholar, along with her colleagues. She describes the case as an easy one, but multifaceted due to the scholars and publications involved.

当时她不断接到一位审稿人的要求，要她去引用一些论文，而这些论文与他们的研究毫不相关。随后，Tiainen决定深入调查这一现象：“我发现，在16篇论文里（也由于作者大量地自我引用才能发现），作者通过重新排版和略微改动图示，不断重复着一些同样的结果。”

Tiainen decided to look deeper after she received persistent requests from what she called a "pushy" reviewer, who pressured her to

cite

totally irrelevant articles written by her and her colleagues, according to Retraction Watch. "I found in total 16 publi

she

d papers (thanks to excessive self-citing by the authors) that kept recycling the same results but with rearranged and slightly reedited figure panels…" Tiainen was

cite

d by Retraction Watch as saying.

对于学术造假，澎湃新闻评论表示：发现一起惩处一起是必须的。唯有如此，才能让“以身试法”者付出代价，震慑潜在造假者，净化学术环境。同时，也需要在制度建设上进行更多的探索，做到早预防、早发现和零容忍。

综合来源：

澎湃新闻

、中国科学网、CGTN

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