The actual case of prof. dr. Kurjak is a minor example only in the
recent increasing of scientific plagiarism and other related
falsifications in Croatia; different more extreme and evident examples of
other plagiarists there occur, being less known outside this country. This
is now provoked chiefly by local social traditions; the former communist
authorities in Yugoslavia suppressed that by political force, and
plagiarism there was rather rare as elsewhere in Europe. Then recently,
the newcome democracy in Croatia is often interpreted as 'self-service'
without any limits, and even several leading politicians (no more active)
here reached their scientific theses by plagiarism; then any their
sanction was blocked, and their example stimulated others to do the same
without limitations; now the plagiarism and other 'scientific'
falsifications there became nearly usual practice.
I experienced there two cases of such practice; the first was my
minor scientific article long ago published in Croatia, and then copied
(except title) by another Croatian author and published in Japan (any
reply was in vain). Then my dr.sc. thesis before dozen years in Croatia
was copied even in 3 iterative articles by other authors without any its
reference. Instead of reply, I decided to made a well-documented
scientific response i.e. to explore in details all accessible causes and
conditions of this increasing pandemia of plagiarism and falsifications in
Croatian scientific establishment. So far, after 39 years in scientific
research, I published some hundred papers (mostly anthropology, genetics
and palaeobiology), and at the end I prepared an extensive encyclopaedic
monograph in 4 volumes on the plagiarism and falsifications in Croatian
science during 20th century (in Croat & English). It will appear in
the next year when I may be retired, out of the repression of omnipotent
Croatian plagiarists.
Reference: A.Z. Lovric-Yoshamya 2007, An encyclopaedia of the
Scientific Criminality in Croatia, vols. I - IV. Zagreb (in press), 3200
pp.
Ph.Dr. A.Z. Lovric-Yoshamya, Dept. Molecular Genetics, R. Boskovic
Institute, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Competing interests:
None declared
Competing interests:
No competing interests
14 November 2006
Andria Z. Lovric-Yoshamya
Ph. D. (senior scientist) Dept. Molecular Genetics
Rapid Response:
Increasing plagiarism in Croatia
Dear Colleagues,
The actual case of prof. dr. Kurjak is a minor example only in the
recent increasing of scientific plagiarism and other related
falsifications in Croatia; different more extreme and evident examples of
other plagiarists there occur, being less known outside this country. This
is now provoked chiefly by local social traditions; the former communist
authorities in Yugoslavia suppressed that by political force, and
plagiarism there was rather rare as elsewhere in Europe. Then recently,
the newcome democracy in Croatia is often interpreted as 'self-service'
without any limits, and even several leading politicians (no more active)
here reached their scientific theses by plagiarism; then any their
sanction was blocked, and their example stimulated others to do the same
without limitations; now the plagiarism and other 'scientific'
falsifications there became nearly usual practice.
I experienced there two cases of such practice; the first was my
minor scientific article long ago published in Croatia, and then copied
(except title) by another Croatian author and published in Japan (any
reply was in vain). Then my dr.sc. thesis before dozen years in Croatia
was copied even in 3 iterative articles by other authors without any its
reference. Instead of reply, I decided to made a well-documented
scientific response i.e. to explore in details all accessible causes and
conditions of this increasing pandemia of plagiarism and falsifications in
Croatian scientific establishment. So far, after 39 years in scientific
research, I published some hundred papers (mostly anthropology, genetics
and palaeobiology), and at the end I prepared an extensive encyclopaedic
monograph in 4 volumes on the plagiarism and falsifications in Croatian
science during 20th century (in Croat & English). It will appear in
the next year when I may be retired, out of the repression of omnipotent
Croatian plagiarists.
Reference: A.Z. Lovric-Yoshamya 2007, An encyclopaedia of the
Scientific Criminality in Croatia, vols. I - IV. Zagreb (in press), 3200
pp.
Ph.Dr. A.Z. Lovric-Yoshamya, Dept. Molecular Genetics, R. Boskovic
Institute, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Competing interests:
None declared
Competing interests: No competing interests