Scientific Report上有一篇文章是抄袭的，然而杂志最终决定不撤稿，而被抄的人是Johns Hopkins的，于是jh的人全都要离开Scientific Report的编委。我也被人抄了不撤稿，然而我人微言轻，不单被编辑部欺负，还要被我们国内生信界的网红欺负。
SR与jh的事情，我和BMC的故事，是相似的，我们可以想像这样的学术界惨剧比想像中的要多。学术圈，真是有时候得呵呵哒。
My friend who doing his PhD study at Johns Hopkins just send me the link about a SR paper of plagiarism. I have very similar experence of a paper published on BMC Systems Biology, which plagiarized my work and the editor just decided to publish an erratum.
Deng etc. published an R package, ppiPre, that copied source code of my package, GOSemSim, and pretended that they developed these algorithms by themselves in their paper.
Here is the screenshot of the source code (left: ppiPre, right: GOSemSim).
You can find out more on my blog post.
As a developer of several open source software, I am glad that someone find my source code useful and happy if someone use my source code to make something better. But I am not happy if someone copies my source code by removing author information and changing function names to pretend the code was developed by himself. The situation is even worse in academic. Taking someone else’s works and passing it off as one’s own is definitely plagiarism and not allow in academic.
