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Plagiarism in Cambridge physics lab prompts calls for guidelines

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At least eight papers written between 1997 and 2001 by Yung Park, a materials scientist who worked at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, are plagiarized, according to documents examined by Nature. Park has also published at least two pairs of papers with significant overlap in separate journals.

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Giles, J. Plagiarism in Cambridge physics lab prompts calls for guidelines. Nature 427, 3 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/427003a

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