{
    "title": "Plagiarism @ Oxford University Press : Lost Elements",
    "inventor_name": "Steven B. Krivit",
    "publication_year": 2016,
    "device_name": null,
    "goal": "Expose and document plagiarism in the book *Lost Elements* published by Oxford University Press.",
    "problem_addressed": "Unattributed copying of text from Robert Nelson's *Adept Alchemy* in the book *Lost Elements*.",
    "concept_summary": "The article details how the authors Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna copied large portions of text from Robert Nelson's earlier work without proper attribution, providing email correspondence, spot-check comparisons, and a timeline of the discovery and notification of the plagiarism.",
    "detailed_description": null,
    "category": "Other",
    "principles": [],
    "scientific_domains": [],
    "mechanisms_of_action": [],
    "materials": [],
    "energy_sources": [],
    "inputs": [],
    "outputs": [],
    "claimed_performance": null,
    "experimental_evidence": null,
    "replication_status": null,
    "keywords": [
        "plagiarism",
        "academic integrity",
        "Lost Elements",
        "Oxford University Press",
        "Robert Nelson",
        "Adept Alchemy",
        "low-energy nuclear reactions",
        "historical transmutation research"
    ],
    "related_technologies": [],
    "controversy_level": "medium",
    "confidence_score": 0.95,
    "practicability_score": 0.2,
    "fringe_score": 0.1,
    "evidence_strength": 0.7,
    "risk_score": 0.2,
    "trl_estimate": null,
    "source_urls": [
        "http://news.newenergytimes.net/2016/12/20/imitation-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery/",
        "http://newenergytimes.com/v2/books/2016LH/Lost-ElementsComparison.shtml",
        "http://www.stevenbkrivit.com",
        "http://www.newenergytimes.com",
        "http://tinyurl.com/oyznkz9"
    ],
    "organizations": [
        "Oxford University Press",
        "New Energy Times",
        "University of Florence",
        "College of New Rochelle",
        "University of Siena",
        "University of Illinois",
        "Oregon State University",
        "Italian Chemical Society",
        "International Congress of History of Chemistry",
        "Italian Society for the Advancement of Science",
        "Tokyo Institute of Technology",
        "Japan Isotopes Data Institute",
        "Chemical Heritage Foundation",
        "American Chemical Society",
        "Institute for Chemicals and Fuels from Alternative Sources"
    ],
    "applications": [],
    "limitations": [],
    "open_questions": [
        "Has the plagiarism been formally investigated or adjudicated by Oxford University Press?",
        "Are there additional sections of *Lost Elements* that contain unattributed text?",
        "What corrective actions (retractions, revisions) will be taken?"
    ],
    "red_flags": [
        "Plagiarism",
        "Misrepresentation of source material",
        "Potential academic misconduct"
    ],
    "evidence_quotes": [
        "\"The text was taken without attribution from Robert Nelson's book Adept Alchemy...\"",
        "\"The structure of the Fontani-Costa-Orna 'Modern Alchemy' section not only mirrors the scope of coverage in Nelson's book, it also duplicates, without attribution, many complete sentences and paragraphs...\"",
        "\"I sent an e-mail to Fontani and asked him for his sources on the uncited statements above. Fontani replied the following day with a secondary source that was published 73 years after the fact...\"",
        "\"The authors give a special thanks to Peter van der Krogt, 'who published the specialized Web page dedicated to the chemical elements and their history.' Yet ... they did not acknowledge Robert Nelson...\"",
        "\"Nelson registered the domain name for his Web site in 2000, and at some point, perhaps in 2005 (but certainly no later than May 2006), published an Internet version of his book at the address http://rexresearch.com/adept/aacont.htm\""
    ]
}