<div dir="ltr">Dear All,<br>This morning's fact-finding article (<a href="https://telex.hu/komplex/2024/10/08/plagium-tudomanyos-cikk-visszavonas-tanulmanygyar-obudai-egyetem">link</a>) uses a case study involving researchers in Hungary to illustrate the new practices that threaten researchers active in scientific publishing (in Hungarian, but translate it, with Chrome). The lessons of the article are difficult to briefly summarise, so it's worth a read!<br>A few points though, I would like to highlight:<br><ol><li>If you receive suspicious references (e.g. your work is cited in an off-topic article), try to investigate and report it to the journal of the article that contains the reference (before you get excited)!</li><li>Check and ask your colleagues (supervisors) if you receive any suspicious enquiries! Let's inform each other!</li><li>Unfair actions to increase publication output can jeopardise the whole research career (and not only your own, but also that of your co-authors)! </li><li>Don't be tempted immediately if you receive an offer from an unknown researcher or journal offering free or fast publication results.</li></ol>All the best,<div><br>Gáspár Albert<br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">PhD, associate professor</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">Eötvös</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">Loránd</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">University</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">, Faculty of Informatics,</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">Tel: <a value="+3613722975" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">+36 1 3722975</a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">Fax: <a value="+3613722951" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">+36 1 3722951</a></span></p></div></div></div></div>