Timeline for answer to How should I investigate and respond to a potentially false claim of a publication in the CV of an applicant? by EarlGrey
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| Dec 26, 2022 at 10:04 | comment | added | Lodinn | @DanielHatton Oh, that makes it a very good example. Admittedly, it is a little bit harder with recent papers - when it comes to 80s and before, I reckon I could remember quite a few articles present in the local library but absent online (JETP would be the most immediate example of such a journal for me). With that said, I am pretty sure there are numerous instances of human error leading to papers not properly appearing on the journal's website, especially if it is something like conference proceedings, but I can not provide any specifics, sadly. | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 10:03 | comment | added | user128581 | (The Stedman article matters (at least to me), because it's the first clear statement of the insight that "heat capacity" is a misleading name for the quantities for which that name is usually used, because the quantities concern energy storage, and energy can be identified as "heat" only when being transferred, not when being stored. Stedman suggests the better names "internal energy capacity" for the quantity usually known as "heat capacity at constant volume", and "enthalpy capacity" for the quantity usually known as "heat capacity at constant pressure".) | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 9:50 | comment | added | user128581 | @Lodinn Exactly my point. The article by Stedman (which is a reply to LeFevre's) is missing from the relevant online issue of the journal, and someone using OP's method would conclude that it does not exist. Someone digitized a hard copy of that volume, and it made its way onto Google Books - only snippet view, but it's enough to confirm the existence of the article: <google.co.uk/books/edition/…>. | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 7:35 | comment | added | Lodinn | @DanielHatton Stedman?.. I only found a paper by this name by some E.J. LeFevre, and the corresponding issue can easily be found online, albeit paywalled: emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0040-0912/vol/5/iss/1 | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 21:41 | comment | added | user128581 | @xavier By the standard you propose, there would be conclusive evidence that Stedman (Mar. 1963, "'Heat' and 'work' in the school", Educ. Train. **5**(3):127-128) does not exist. It exists regardless. | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 14:14 | comment | added | PsySp | @xavier As people have suggested, you might find it helpful to contact the author in case there is a benign explanation. If you are 100% convinced that the person deliberately lied, then better inform yours and, most importantly their, responsible department. But as I have mentioned above, even the ex-Dutch minister of Finance lied like that, but since you cannot prove that it was deliberate, then nothing happens. | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 14:00 | comment | added | xavier | The practice of including a paper that doesn't exist. No need to contact the journal because they have all their issues online. Google Scholar and the worldwide web is enough to know if the paper exist or not. | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 13:55 | comment | added | PsySp | @xavier which academic practice? You have not established the fact to conclude at a practice. Also, have you considered contacting the journal? | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 13:51 | comment | added | xavier | The publisher and the journal of the listed article is online, so I guess Google Scholar search and checking the volume. I did not accuse the applicant, it's just a question if such academic practice is offensive in general. | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 13:14 | history | answered | EarlGrey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |