Plagiarized bio-nanoelectronics by Elsevier, Nature Publishing, and ACS (American Chemical Society) Publications

Having reported the matter of misconduct in research to the the Editor Prof. Turner, I am still refusing to award by his supreme answer during two months, despite of six reminders on this subject and contacting the Journal Manager in addition! From: Anthony Turner <anthony.turner@liu.se> Date: January 22, 2014 7:09:21 PM GMT+02:00 To: "sklyar@tsp.lviv.ua" <sklyar@tsp.lviv.ua> Cc: "HARI (Biosensors@elsevier.com)" <Biosensors@elsevier.com>, "Sleeman, David (ELS-OXF)" <D.sleeman@elsevier.com>, Alice Tang-Turner <alice.tang-turner@liu.se> Subject: Complaint regarding inadequate referencing by DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2013.10.065 I apologise for the time it has taken me to look into this, but I had some trouble accessing the relevant documents. In your complaint you state the following: “The method of ” I have now carefully re-read the original paper and the documents that you supplied and I do not agree that the authors should be required to reference your material. While your book chapter has some general relevance to the paper published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics, there is a vast amount of literature on CNTs and in my opinion the methodology reported by Huang et alia is sufficiently different to your publications to warrant it perfectly reasonable for the authors to choose not to reference you. Editor-In-Chief, Biosensors & Bioelectronics (Elsevier) Date: February 21, 2014 2:13:02 PM GMT+02:00 To: "Newell, Richard (ELS-AMS)" <r.newell@elsevier.com> Subject: Re: alleged plagiarized paper BIOS6325 in Biosensors and Bioelectronics A brief but concise statement is: molecular nanowire is forming a pickup/actuating (two-way) coil with the inserted CNTs core for control/amplification of the biosignals. This my method was partly implemented and investigated experimentally by them, and claimed as their own invention from the beginning. From: "Newell, Richard (ELS-AMS)" <r.newell@elsevier.com> Date: March 31, 2014 11:29:41 AM GMT+03:00 Subject: RE: Alleged plagiarized paper BIOS6325 in Biosensors and Bioelectronics As promised in my previous communication to you I am contacting you this week to inform you of the outcome of my investigation into the case you brought against the authors of the Biosensors and Bioelectronics (BIOS) paper BIOS6325 (“Carbon nanotube signal amplification for ultrasensitive fluorescence polarization detection of DNA methyltransferase activity and inhibition”). After discussion of the matter with the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of BIOS, Prof. Anthony Turner, and after consulting with members of our ethics team and running an independent analysis we have found no evidence to support the accusation that the authors of the paper committed plagiarism. We could find no significant overlap in the content of their paper with the two examples you provided of your own publications, namely “CNT and Organic FETs Based Two-Way Transducing of the Neurosignals” and “A CNTFET-Based Nanowired Induction Two-Way Transducers”, which would require them to reference your own work in their publication. To summarise, the findings of our investigation fully support the original conclusions of the EiC of the journal in his communication to you. The replies/decisions from Nature Publishing and ACS (American Chemical Society) Publications were also predictable "natural".