User:Sahehco/Scientific misconduct in Iran

Scientific misconduct in Iran refers to a series of scienfitic misconducs from notable academic or non-academic people in Iran. University policies in Iran are authorized by Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution after 1979 Iranian revolution whose members are selected by Supreme Leader of Iran. Most important aim of the council is islamization of universities in Iran. During the Iranian Cultural Revolution (1980-1987), many of non-muslim or secular faculty members in different fields of science, were dismissed or resigned from the academic and research jobs. The gap were filled by young Iranian muslim students or scientist. In September 2016, Science Magazine published a report in which described about a market of scientific publications in Tehran. The author, had mentioned that the publication market is not illegal and anyone can buy a scientific paper by paying $600.

Masoumeh Ebtekar
Masoumeh Ebtekar, head of Iranian Department of Environment has served at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran as a faculty member. On 7 October 2008, eTBLAST, a text similarity search engine on MEDLINE database, noted that 85% of a paper published by Masoumeh Ebtekar came from several previously published articles. The paper, on cytokines and air pollution, was published in 2006 in the Iran Journal of Allergy Asthma Immunology (IJAAI) 5 47-56:2006. A couple weeks after the eTBLAST report, Nature magazine covered the story, quoting one of the authors of original papers, (Ian Mudway, a toxicologist at the King's College London) as saying, "the article is a veritable patchwork of other people's work, word for word, grammatical error for grammatical error." Nature also stated that Ebtekar had not replied to its emails. In response, the editor-in-chief of the IJAAI issued a statement saying: "We regret for this duplication that appeared in the journal. We are working with the editors of the JACI journal [the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, a scholarly periodical that published three of the papers from which Ebtekar had copied] to find the best solution in this regard." In December 2008 Ebtekar's article was retracted.