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The Iran-Bologna Process in Tajikistan
T-invariant, co-founder of Dissernet Andrey Rostovtsev and community project coordinator Larisa Melikhova continue their “Plagiarism Navigator”. Through individual cases of international academic plagiarism, we examine the global-scale imitation of scholarly activity. In this second installment, we focus on Iranian scholars who defended their dissertations in Tajikistan between 2011 and 2013 under the auspices of the Russian Higher Attestation Commission (VAK).
Russian Science Rode the “Chinese Express” Through Ukraine to Poland
T-invariant, co-founder of Dissernet Andrei Rostovtsev, and community project coordinator Larisa Melikhova are launching “Plagiarism Navigator”. Through select cases of international academic plagiarism, the project reveals how imitation of scholarly activity operates on a planetary scale. The first installment tells the story of a Chinese scholar who defended a dissertation in Kharkiv—a work essentially composed of Ukrainian translations of two Russian-language theses.