Volunteers "Dissernet"

"Iodine" - about those who analyze the scientific work of officials

The Dissernet project is over a year now. During this time, from the investigations of the project, it became known about plagiarism in the scientific work of many high -ranking officials, including State Duma deputy Vladimir Burmatov (he was scandalous in the education committee), Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Vladimir Kolokoltsev and many others.

The journalist of Yoda Darina Shevchenko found out how Dissernet works and why the project volunteers check the dissertations of officials for plagiarism.

According to one of the founders of the project, Andrei Rostovtsev, about 100 volunteers from different countries work in the disserte. They manually check the analysis of the dissertations that a special program prepares.

Anna is a candidate of economic sciences. She came to Dissernet in the fall of 2013 and is well familiar with plagiarism - her articles under other people's names were repeatedly published in scientific journals. According to her, the main task of "disserter" is not the exposure of politicians and officials, but the fight against lies and profanity in Russian science and education.

I am a practicing scientist and has repeatedly encountered in my work with incorrect borrowing. I found several of my articles under a stranger and I realized from my own experience that scientists who independently conduct scientific studies have no opportunity to protect their copyright. ...>

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