Time for a rant:
Some time ago I did my Bachelor Thesis and had two supervisors. Today I googled for new journal publications by them to see what the research has led to. So the first guy published a paper where he draws some new conclusions based on additional work and briefly credits me in the acknowledgements, saying something like "The authors want to thank the student workers bla, bla and Meat187 for their contributions". Seems fair enough.
Now the second guy also published a paper in some journal, and when I opened that I shat bricks. Not only did he take the diagrams directly from my thesis, most of the text is just copypasta! He just wrote a new introduction and copied together the experiment description and conclusions. The fuck!?!? I mean, it's no Nobel prize winning paper and I'm not missing out some huge scientific recognition by not being credited as an author, but come on, can't that guy do better that copypaste some students work under his own name? At least slightly rewrite some stuff and do new diagrams, that's what everyone does.
Last edited by Meat187 on Aug-09-2010 at 08:17
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