The recent editorial in the Journal of Microporous and Mesoporous Materials is worth taking a look.

The editorial is behind a subscription wall. So, I have “copied” the entire text of that note below [1] for the benefit of the readers here.

Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 103 (2007) iii

Editorial

Note from the Editors

Dear Readers of Microporous and Mesoporous Materials,

Please be advised that the article by S.M. Prabhu and S. Krishnan, entitled "Nonlinear two dimensional potential based study of coupled heat and mass transfer in a porous medium” published in Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 95 (2006) 241-247, plagiarized the work of H.R. Thomas and S.D. King, "A non-linear, two-dimensional, potential-based analysis of coupled heat and mass transfer in a porous medium”, published in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 37 (1994) 3707-3722.

The Editors of Microporous and Mesoporous Materials will not be accepting any articles even for review in the future from S.M. Prabhu, Chemical Engineering Department, Satyabhama University, Chennai, India.

Available online 23 March 2007

In the highly competitive international research publication environment, short-cut acts like these are certainly detrimental to the hard work and earnest efforts of many other excellent Indian researchers.

Long time readers here may remember Publish or Plagiarize, else Perish.

Plagiarize and Perish.

Note

[1] With proper citations and credits of the source, without claiming originality for writing any part of it.