Plagiarized paragraphs and fabricated data discovered by Polish chemical
Ph.D student in published articles
When any reader or author in the field of physical chemistry read any paper , he always rely on the honesty of the authors presenting these data. The case here concerning with two couples of chemical frauds. The case begun when a perceptive and zealous Polish chemical Ph.D student --perhaps too zealous suggests A. Radomski (working Poliska Akademia Nauk, Al Zwirki, Poland)--who first discovered the plagiarized paragraphs in published research of Salem M. Hamza and Samia K. Hamdona. The first author was affiliated to Chemistry Department, faculty of Science, El Monofia University, Shebin El Kom and the second author was from the National Institute of Oceanography and fisheries, Alexanderia, Egypt. The paper that constitute the body of the fraudulent behavior entitled "Kientic of dissolution of Calcium Flouride crystals in sodium chloride solution: influence of Additives" and published in the journal of Physical Chemistry, 1991, vol. 95, 3149 – 3152. As it was full of fabricated data and lifted ones, the detective work of this Polish student in 2005 emphasizing uncovered a number of instances of verbatim lifting from sources such as Scientific Chemical Journals (such as Ellis, A. Journal of chemical Society (1963), and Barone et al., Journal of Crystal growth (1983), v. 53. After that he sent the results of his detective work to the Dean of the Warszawa Polish Academy of Science, an official investigation found that Salem M. Hamza and Samia K. Hamdona had lifted text and equations from other researchers and published papers. As Radomski indicates, Salem Hamza and Samia K. Hamdona's lifting of text from the other Scientific American for use in a review of physical chemistry seem to constitute as serious of an infraction as plagiarism in an article which is supposed to represent primary research findings. Such verbatim lifting of text and equations is still unacceptable according to scholarly convention, but it seems to be a higher level sort of plagiary when contrasted with cases in which wholesale lifting of an article's text is accompanied by insertion of fabricated data. Salem Hamza and S. Hamdona's post-plagiary contributions to the profession physical chemistry might be seen as an atonement of sorts for wrongdoing to which he admitted and for which he took responsibility. It is strange that these two chemical frauds still and continued to work for both address where they have led a distinguished career involving the recruitment of researchers and financial supporters for work on physical chemistry. Finally we want here to alarm the scientific community to struggle among fraudulent and dishonest practices in Science