An investigation by the Ministry of Science and Technology has found that former minister of education Chiang Wei-ling (蔣偉寧) was not involved in academic fraud, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Lin Yi-bing (林一平) said yesterday.
Lin told a Taipei press conference that Chen Cheng-wu (陳震武), the twin brother of former professor Chen Cheng-yuan (陳震遠, also known as Peter Chen), had put his brother’s name on an article submitted to the Journal of Vibration and Control, which also carried Chiang’s name, without Chiang’s knowledge or consent.
The journal’s publisher, US-based SAGE Publications, earlier this month withdrew 60 papers submitted by Chen Chen-yuan, accusing him of creating false e-mail accounts to give his articles favorable peer reviews.
Five of the 60 papers listed Chen Chen-wu as the main author, with Chiang cited as a coauthor.
Lin said that of those five papers, only one listed Chen Cheng-yuan as a coauthor, which would make it the “only fraudulent one” of the five.
The ministry would contact SAGE Publications to brief it on the details of its probe, he said.
“The former minister of education was not involved in the alleged academic fraud,” Lin said.
With regard to questions in academic circles about Premier Jiang Yi-huah’s (江宜樺) unfinished translation of Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition, which he began in 1990 and for which he received a NT$500,000 grant from the then-National Science Council (now the Ministry of Science and Technology), Lin said that Jiang, of his own initiative, returned NT$282,000 to the ministry in March.
Lin said that Jiang has not finished translating the footnotes in Arendt’s book.
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