BMJ, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39392.474711.4E, (Published 9 November 2007)

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University drops case against Croatian academic accused of plagiarism

London

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A senior Croatian academic and obstetrician has escaped punishment over allegations of plagiarism in his published work by Zagreb University's "court of honour" because the alleged offences took place some years ago and he retired in August.

The allegations against Asim Kurjak were originally made in the BMJ by Iain Chalmers of the James Lind Library in Oxford last year (2006;333:594-6 doi: 10.1136/bmj.38968.611296.F7).

In the late 1980s Dr Chalmers noticed that the text and data in a 1974 paper on epidural anaesthesia, coauthored by Professor Kurjak, were identical to those in a paper by another group of authors that had been published three years earlier.

He reported his observations to the editor concerned and to Professor Kurjak's university. Both asked for the matter to be handled discreetly.

But 14 years later Dr Chalmers was prompted to write the BMJ article when he discovered that Professor Kurjak had continued to . . . [Full text of this article]

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