Council of Agriculture (COA) Minister Chen Chi-chung (陳吉仲) yesterday denied accusations that he plagiarized parts of a research project in 2012.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Kaohsiung city councilor candidate Pai Chiao-yin (白喬茵) wrote online that Chen plagiarized large portions of two research papers written by Lin Kuo-ching (林國慶), a professor at National Taiwan University’s Department of Agricultural Economics, and published in 2007 and 2008.
The project cost the council NT$1.25 million (US$39,476 at the current exchange rate), Pai said.
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The accusation came amid media reports that former premier Simon Chang (張善政), the KMT’s Taoyuan mayoral candidate, plagiarized papers from a NT$57 million research project he undertook for the COA from 2007 to 2009, while he was vice president of technology company Acer Inc.
The council said it has determined that six of the papers overseen by Chang had 25 to 45 percent overlap with other publications and asked Chang to provide an explanation before Friday.
Chen wrote on social media that results of a plagiarism detection software analysis of his 2012 research paper showed a mere 3 percent overlap with Lin’s research, but he did not specify where the similarities occurred.
Except for some statistics and a bar graph that were also cited in Lin’s research were government data, all of his paper was original, “unlike research overseen by Chang,” he said.
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