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Romania’s new education minister is embroiled in a plagiarism row, forcing the prime minister to call for an investigation into claims that he copied swathes of foreign research works.
This new copycat scandal in Europe comes after Germany’s defence minister Theodor zu Guttenberg and Hungary’s president Pal Schmitt had to resign in the past few months because of plagiarism in their academic papers.
But the fact that this time a minister of education, Ioan Mang, is suspected has angered the scientific community in Romania even more.
Mang, 53, a professor at the IT Faculty of Oradea University in northwest Romania, was accused this week by researchers from Japan, Israel and Taiwan of copying their academic work on information technologies – even including some mistakes – in several of his papers.
Less than four days after his centre-left government was sworn in, Prime Minister Victor Ponta was forced to call the Romanian Academy, the country’s highest scientific body, “to have a group of specialists analyse as fast as possible the accusations against” Mang.
“If these accusations are proved to be true, the minister will leave,” he told reporters late on Thursday.
Ponta was forced to drop his first candidate for the education portfolio last week after she also was accused of plagiarism.
Mang has denied the charges, saying they were politically motivated.
The controversy took on an international dimension when Romanian media published the researchers’ allegations.
“I got many e-mails that brought to my attention that Mr Ioan Mang ... plagiarised a manuscript of mine, as well as papers of other people. Indeed this is a case of plagiarism,” said Eli Biham, the dean of the Computer Science Department of the Technion Institute in Haifa, Israel.
In an e-mail sent to Romanian researcher Razvan Orasanu and published by the Hotnews news site, Chu Hsin Lin of Taiwan’s University Tunghai said that “most contents” of a work signed by Mang “are copied from our paper” with other scientists.
Japanese IT specialist Takeshi Shimoyama made a similar allegation.
The National Ethics Council will also investigate two claims of plagiarism against Mang, the president of the Authority for Scientific Research, Dragos Ciuparu, told AFP.