Lloyd Wood - notes on plagiarism Notes on plagiarism

Do good work, and make it available, and you will be plagiarised. Some examples from my personal experience:

Christopher Adeogun

His Google Scholar page seems unremarkable, but links to Academia and ResearchGate articles which no longer exist. At one point he had over two hundred publications on both, none of which he'd written, other than to edit the author information to include his sole name, often in full: Christopher Otabisi Oluwatobi Adeogun. A lot of complaining to ResearchGate and to Academia got those removed.

Oh God, traces remain. Adeogun's LinkedIn profile was removed. He has a new LinkedIn profile.

Has he actually written any of the papers on his Google Scholar page? I have my doubts.

May 2024. He's back on academia.edu. Here we go again.

Ömer Çetin (Omer Cetin) is a plagiarist

Omer Cetin, of the Hezárfen ASTIN aeronautics and space technologies institute at the Turkish National Defense University Air Force Academy, is a plagiarist.
Artificial potential field based autonomous guidance & navigation for a planar constellation of satellites, Ömer Çetin and Guray Yilmaz
a blatant ripoff of my PhD thesis and a paper from Laura E. Barnes. This got Ömer and Guray banned from publishing with the IEEE for three years.

Detection of Critical Activity by Accelerometer and Gyroscope Sensors, Yelkovan et al. including Ömer Çetin
Putting his name on this later IEEE paper violated Ömer's three-year ban, so this one got pulled too. He was previously on LinkedIn.

Omer Cetin was then appointed to the technical committee of RAST 2019, the very conference where he'd committed plagiarism in 2015. Omer Cetin was also appointed to the editorial team of the Journal of Aeronautics and Space Technologies (JAST), and was listed as that journal's primary contact. Not bad for a plagiarist. He was still publishing in that journal as of 2018. JAST now has its own plagiarism policy.

Plagiarism is endemic in Turkey.

Other minor plagiarism

Optimal Data Downloading by Using Inter-Satellite Offloading in LEO Satellite Networks
Those Manhattan and twisted Manhattan diagrams? See page 32 of my PhD thesis.

Unpublished works are a slightly different kettle of fish:
this 2005 undergraduate thesis copies vast chunks from my PhD thesis -- but also references it. While certifying up front that it's all his own work. His LinkedIn profile.
Digital Satellite Communication, Mohammad Alqam, Graduation project, Near East University Faculty of Engineering, 2002
Its entire chapter 3 (pages 38-59) is copied from my own masters thesis created at ENST Toulouse for the University of Surrey in 1995, including my error in the Pascal's triangle -- without reference or credit. Here's Alqam on LinkedIn.

And then there's Riadh Dhaou's PhD thesis, which copies vast chunks of the Bisante deliverable we put together, which includes a lot of my original work for my masters and PhD work... sigh. That man has no shame.

Broadband Satellite Systems, Bern et al., reuses SaVi renderings without reference, so I complained. But that was on-the-web publications before Surveys and Tutorials went more formal. Amusing how that 'Peer-Reviewed' in their graphic looks like 'Poor'... Surveys & Tutorials shut down for a year and reopened with a new editorial team; colleagues have since published in Surveys.
Lloyd Wood (lloydwood@users.sourceforge.net)