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Iranian Academia: Evolution after Revolution and Plagiarism as a Disorder

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Recently, a few of scientific journals raise serious questions about scientific ethics and moral judgment of some of the Iranian government’s senior executives in their papers. Plagiarism, under any circumstances is not justified, and we do not intend to justify it in this note. However, we find it useful in understanding why otherwise respected, responsible individuals may engage in plagiarism by terse review of the history Iranian academia.

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  1. After 1979 revolution that many of these Islamic clerics engaged directly in ruling the country little by little they noticed the importance of intellectual property rights.

  2. A humorous belief in Iranian culture says: your university degree is like your cloth, having it doesn’t make you important but if you don’t have it, others make fun of you!

  3. According to the Iranian Studies Group’s research, Iranian Americans rank first among 67 immigrant groups in regards to educational attainment (http://www.niacouncil.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5782).

  4. Applied Mathematics Computation journal which used to publish papers without referee. Some Iranian professors got promotion using this opportunity. Of course, the editor in chief compelled to retire.

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  1. Department of Information Technology Management, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

    Sepehr Ghazinoory

  2. School of Management, Allameh Tabataba’ee University, Tehran, Iran

    Soroush Ghazinoori

  3. Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science & Technology, Tehran, Iran

    Mandana Azadegan-Mehr

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Ghazinoory, S., Ghazinoori, S. & Azadegan-Mehr, M. Iranian Academia: Evolution after Revolution and Plagiarism as a Disorder. Sci Eng Ethics 17, 213–216 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-010-9206-6

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