Waiting six years for the original Tianjin University graduate student to report academic misconduct in 123 page PDF with real name-People-cnBeta.COM

After that, he quickly made it to the top of Zhihu’s Hot List, and Tianjin University immediately took care of it as well.

On the night of November 19, the Tianjin University School of Chemical Engineering issued a statement regarding Professor Zhang Yuqing’s real-name report on academic misconduct.

After investigation, it was determined that his academic misconduct was true. Zhang Yuqing admitted that she had committed academic misconduct and was willing to take full responsibility. Tianjin University terminated the employment contract with Zhang Yuqing.

What is puzzling is that on the 19th, Zhang Yuqing stated that he admitted that there was indeed academic misconduct, but many facts in the report materials were distorted and did not give further explanations.

This operation stunned people:

Given that the facts are admitted and many facts have been distorted, without further explanation, could things have been reversed?

Zhang Yuqing and others

Let’s first look at the background of this professor.

According to the Baidu Encyclopedia explanation, Zhang Yuqing was an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, a graduate tutor, and enrolled students majoring in chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, and membrane science.

He has published 42 papers, 21 authorized and applied Chinese invention patents, and won second prize at the 2004 National Science and Technology Invention Award.

This resume is really very eye-catching.

According to Lu Xiang’s revelations, the fraudulent behavior of this graduate tutor is notorious.

According to the description of the older brothers and sisters, the image of this tutor in the eyes of the students is also difficult to describe.

The atmosphere of this laboratory is like this: serious experiments are scolded and frauds are boasted.

What? ? Dare to believe that this is still a fake concentration camp.

The various visits in the past summary are nothing more than teacher trips with public funds.

What’s even more outrageous is that from 2011 to 2020, Professor Zhang Yuqing published at least 4 science papers every year, and the cost of each SCi article is less than 500 yuan.

It is precisely because of these false documents that Zhang Yuqing changed from associate professor to full professor in 2013.

Awaiting six years, a 123 page PDF detailing the crime of counterfeiting

Later, Lu Xiang discovered more embarrassing truths:

First, in 2014, when Lu Xiang was recording the experiment, I discovered that there were more deceptive behaviors. The data from the experiment was not accurately recorded, but was artificially adjusted.

Second, they will write their own journal essays from the previous master’s thesis, and then their own graduation thesis will be written into next year’s essay, and repeated.

This is too easy, right?

Third, from 2011 to 2016, Lu Xiang’s lab basically did not perform characterization and almost never made an appointment for characterization. All the experimental data I did myself. What’s even more obnoxious is that it also requires students to sign a statement when they graduate, stating that this experimental data is true, otherwise it won’t allow you to graduate successfully.

Use physical or chemical methods to analyze, test, or identify the chemical properties of substances and clarify the chemical properties of substances.

This is too naughty …

But despite the fact that the students he had taken know these facts, no one dared to report him.

In the end, Lu Xiang, who couldn’t bear it, decided to drop out of studies in 2016.

After dropping out of school, Lu Xiang still didn’t report him. Even in 2017, Lu Xiang found a tutor to try to communicate, but the professor said that Lu Xiang was distorting the facts and threatened to report it to the Public Security Bureau.

Fourth, this teacher Zhang also took his daughter to make a fake.

According to Lu Xiang, Zhang Yuqing forged articles for his daughter Zhang Simeng, who was still studying for a bachelor’s degree from 2011 to 2015. There are 7 articles in total, including 4 articles in one and 3 articles in three.

In 2015, Zhang Simeng was recommended to Tianjin University as a 2015 graduate student; In 2016, Zhang Simeng was recommended to Tianjin University, majoring in chemical engineering, and in the summer of 2017, Zhang Simeng was recommended to Monash University in Australia.

This is really a true “fighting dad”, I admire him.

Let’s see how low this professor is.

Take Lu Xiang’s own article as an example.

One is data fraud.

According to Lu Xiang, in his small published articles, Table 1 to Table 4 of the acid number (H0) are all falsified.

Based on the acidity calculation formula on the paper, these acidity values ​​are not available for large or small papers. The absorbance in the table is also not available.

What’s even more ridiculous is that these tables are the most basic basis for writing this article. However, the acid values ​​of the small items and the corresponding large items were different. Later, when the reviewers discovered that there was something unusual, Professor Zhang asked the students to edit them.

What is more outrageous is that the calculation of the experimental data is also false.

According to Lu Xiang’s introduction, not only is pKa not a fixed value, but there are three places in Table 1 that do not exist at all.

According to the calculation formula (?? a = −14.7 – lg (−0.40)), the exponent lg has negative exponents (-0.4 and -0.18), which makes people laugh. (The x in lg (x) must be greater than 0, otherwise it has no meaning.)

Second, the images are fake.

Based on the experimental data images published by Lu Xiang, we can see that there is almost no difference in the images above. In other words, these images are likely web page screenshots, taken from other people’s data, or uploaded by yourself.

Third, multiple submissions per draft.

What does that mean? The simple understanding is to reuse fake items.

For example, if an article has four ABCD chapters:

Use ABC to write the first article;

Use BCD to write the second article;

Use ACD to write the third article.

May I ask, how true is such a document? How did the audit pass?

Even scarier is that according to Lu Xiang’s description, in the past ten years, Chang Yuqing has falsified at least 30 to 40 master’s theses and 50 academic journal articles.

Now that six years have passed, Lu Xiang feels that it is time for this “fake professor” to go public.

At the end of the report letter, Lu Xiang only submitted his four demands:

• He fired Chang Yuqing.

• Properly handle Chang Yuqing’s past and present students. I hope that the victims of Chang Yuqing can be resettled as well as possible.

• Compensation. Lu Xiang’s 4-year student loan was not only not obtained, but also suffered.

• Improve the teacher supervision system. I hope the school will give students the opportunity to switch tutors in their second year of graduate school.

The Tianjin University School of Chemical Engineering also immediately made a statement: fire Chang Yuqing immediately.

Netizen: this is the light of the right path

Although the result did not appear to be as pleasant, so as not to affect the brothers and sisters he knew, this student chose to give up the report after six years and was praised by netizens.

Meeting the netizen @ D.Han praised:

It is a warrior like him who makes our environment cleaner, fairer and more what we want to see.

Some netizens also called for schools and the law to increase the punishment and prevent such incidents from happening again.

Such a person, who is passionate about scientific research, has clear logic and academic ability, is eroded by the teacher who does not care to seek the truth in the facts, but only cares about his own interests. pain. It is not that students have to know school management, but that no one can really speak from the point of view of the students. I hope this matter has a result. I don’t expect similar incidents to happen again, but I hope he is no longer in hiding when he shows his feet.

From the fraud of a Wuhan University professor by his son, to the Nobel Prize fraud for 17 years, we have “witnessed” too many academic failures this year. We hope to sound a wake-up call for scientific researchers and students. We create a good learning environment.