Dănuţ Marcu (born 11 January 1952) is a
Romania
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n
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
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and
computer scientist
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, who received his
Ph.D.
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from the
University of Bucharest in 1981. He claimed to have authored more than 400 scientific papers.
Marcu was frequently accused of
plagiarism
Plagiarism is the fraudulent representation of another person's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work.From the 1995 '' Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary'': use or close imitation of the language and thought ...
.
The editors of ''Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Informatica'' decided to ban Marcu from their journal for this reason, as did the editors of ''
4OR
''4OR - A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that was
established in 2003 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media.
It is a joint official journal of the Belgian,
French, and
Italian Op ...
'' and the editors of ''
Geombinatorics''. The editors of ''
Geometriae Dedicata
''Geometriae Dedicata'' is a mathematical journal, founded in 1972, concentrating on geometry and its relationship to topology, group theory and the theory of dynamical systems. It was created on the initiative of Hans Freudenthal in Utrecht, the N ...
'' state that they suspect Marcu of plagiarism, as he submitted a manuscript which is "more-or-less word for word the same" as a paper by Bernt Lindström. Jerrold W. Grossman, Sanpei Kageyama, Martin R. Pettet, and anonymous reviewers have accused Marcu of plagiarism in
MathSciNet reviews. According to the managing editors of ''Menemui Matematik'', Marcu's paper in that journal is a well known result in
graph theory
In mathematics, graph theory is the study of ''graphs'', which are mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects. A graph in this context is made up of '' vertices'' (also called ''nodes'' or ''points'') which are conne ...
, and the paper "should not have been published".
See also
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List of scientific misconduct incidents
References
External links
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Living people
1952 births
20th-century Romanian mathematicians
21st-century Romanian mathematicians
Scientists from Bucharest
People involved in plagiarism controversies
People involved in scientific misconduct incidents
University of Bucharest alumni
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