Little Office of Research Integrity

Microgravity Transport Processes In Fluid, Thermal, Biological, And Materials Sciences (ISBN: 9781573314237)- S.S. Sadhal

A number of papers published in this book are published in other sources. The list of duplicated papers is given below. In addition, paper #1 below contains data that are fabricated and falsified :

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1. KEYNOTE LECTURE: THE INFLUENCE OF GRAVITY ON THE PRECISE MEASUREMENT OF SOLUTE DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS IN DILUTE LIQUID METALS AND METALLOIDS (Paper No. : MTP-01-04)
Reginald W. Smith, Xiaohe Zhu and Mark C. Tinnicliffe, Queen's University Department of Materials & Metallurgical Engineering, CANADA
Timothy J.N. Smith, Lowell Misener and Josee Adamson, Biologix, Inc., CANADA

This paper is copied from another paper that was published in 1998 by RW Smith alone ( "the influence of g-jitter on...." Microgravity Sci. & Technology, XI (2) 78-84 (1998)). Timothy Smith, Lowell Misener, Josee Adamson and others are added to the paper and the title has changed. See the problems with the fabricated data here.

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3. GRAVITY-INDUCED ANOMALIES IN INTER-PHASE SPACING REPORTED FOR BINARY EUTECTICS (Paper No.: MTP-01-91)
Reginald W. Smith, Queen's University at Kingston
Ontario, CANADA

The author has copied almost the entire paper from another paper that was published four (4) years earlier in the International Symposium on Experimental Methods for Gravity Materials Science Research ( 10th, 1998, San Antonio, Texas). The title has been changed and the earlier paper has been eliminated from the list of references.

Significant parts of the paper published in 1998 are taken from another paper that was published in 1996 ( Materals Science Forum, Vol 215-216, pp67-80).

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2. THE INFLUENCE OF MARANGONI FLOWS ON CRACK GROWTH IN CAST METALS (Paper No.: MTP-01-09)
B.J. Yang and Reginald W. Smith, Queen's University at Kingston
Ontario, CANADA
M. Sahoo and M. Sadayappan, CANMET, NRC Canada, CANADA

This paper is almost identical to a paper that was published in 2001 in AFS Transaction 01-120 (page 579-591). The results are the same. There are small changes in the title and in the abstract. Also, two co-authors (G. Liao and D. Li) are eliminated.

M. Sahoo is the associate editor of the Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly (CMQ).