It’s included in the “well-known handbook,” according to school.
A copying charge brought against its chairman was criticized by Columbia University, calling the declare “absurd.”
In reference to a 30-year-old report that is almost similar to a research she co-authored in 1992, Yale University Professor Ahmed Mobarak accused President Minouche Shafik of “wholesale intellectual theft.”
The 1994 paper no longer listed Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay as a co- author, but Shafik ( pictured ) did give him” special thanks”.
The state was refuted by the school, and other researchers have questioned its severity.
” This is an absurd attempt at running a effectively- known playbook, and it has no credibility”, Ben Chang, vice chairman of contacts, said in an email to The College Fix.
He did not respond to a follow-up investigation that had been sent over the course of the previous year and a half that requested more details and framework for the incident.
Another scientific leaders have been accused of plagiarism, including Harvard University’s Claudine Gay, who resigned after being criticized for her handling of hatred on college and the deceit accusations.
Bandyopadhyay, who is already employed by the World Bank as a senior advisor, did not respond to a message from The Fix on Linked In.
” I’m an academic, and this is NOT okay to do”, Yale Professor Mobarak wrote in an April 26 string on X.
You ca n’t take someone’s author out and assert intellectual property for yourself. When a grad student tried this, we referred him to]the ] Dean for disciplinary hearings”, Mobarak wrote. ” And this is worse because of electricity disparity– she removed a *junior* man”.
Nemat Shafik – @Columbia Prez only has one well-cited article in her career, which was published in the Oxford Econ Papers in 1994.
This article is almost wholly taken from a review from 1992 that was coauthored with a consultant who was not given any credit for the release.
This is blatant academic theft, not refined plagiarism. twitter.com/ttqN3C7hFm— Mushfiq Mobarak, @mushfiq- economics. bsky. social ( @mushfiq_econ ) April 26, 2024
The 1992 review is called “Economic Progress and Environmental Quality: Time Series and Cross- State Information” and the 1994 document is titled “Economic Development and Environmental Quality: An Econometric Analysis”.
The journals are by far Shafik’s most cited. The 1992 one has been cited 2, 816 days per Google Scholar information, the 1994 one 2407. The next most frequently cited figure is 115. The majority of Shafik’s writing has been cited less than one hundred days.
Mobarak did not respond to a Fix , request for comment on May 15 and May 20. According to reports, he claimed in a New York Post post that he spoke with Bandyopadhyay, who felt he ought to have had his name on the document but did not blame Shafik.
In contrast to other theft scandals, Jonathan Bailey of Theft Today questioned the severity of the claims.
He wrote” there’s no clear proof of wrongdoing” and” ]w ] hile I agree that the situation is unusual, it’s not proof of plagiarism by itself”.
He said it is feasible Bandyopadhyay’s position changed from the document phase to the final version. Alternately, he countered that the detached writer might not have contributed as much to the original version and that he had been added in error.
Without knowing why Bandyopadhyay was dropped as a coauthor, Bailey claimed,” It is unnecessary to criticise Shafik of theft or author dignity violations.” ” While it is strange, it’s no, by itself, an evidence of theft or other wrongdoing”.
” This is a classic case of seeing ]something ] unusual and jumping to the most egregious conclusion. Essentially, it’s possible, but we need to get rid of some more cliched theories first.
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