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Partial list of duplicated papers with bogus authorship, RW Smith & Smith et al:

In 2006 NSERC’s Staff expressed concern that “existing grants may have been obtained on the basis of an exaggerated publication record.”   

1         Ann. N.Y Acad. Sci., 1027: 110-128 (2004): Copied from Appl. Phys. Vol. 96 (2004) 6213-6219.

2         Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 974: 176 -192 (2002): Copied from International Symposium on Experimental Methods for Micro-gravity Materials Science Research, pp. (10th; 1998: San Antonio, Texas))

3         International Symposium on Experimental Methods for Micro-gravity Materials Science Research, pp. (10th; 1998: San Antonio, Texas): Copied from Materials Science Forum, Vols. 215-216 (1996) pp. 67 -80).

4 . Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 974: 57-67 (2002): Copied from Proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the European Space Agency in 2000.

  5.     Proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the European Space Agency

in 2000: Copied from 11th International Symposium on experimental....... (R.W. Smith and Josee Robert) (TMS Publication).

6.   11th International Symposium on experimental.... (R.W. Smith and Josee Robert)... (TMS

Publication): Copied from    Micro-gravity Sci. Technol. XI /2 (1998), pp.78 -84).

7.     " Diffusion in Liquid Pb - Au Binary System" Materials Science Forum, Vol.215-216, pp. 113-118 (1996): Copied from "Experiments With Liquid Diffusion in Reduced Gravity", X. Zhu, M.  Kaya and R.W. Smith, pp. 1-4,  7th international symposium on experimental methods for micro-gravity materials science, Edited by Robert A. Schiffman (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society).

8.   " Improved Melt Conditioning ............"  Transactions of the

AmericanFoundry Society (AFS), 515-524 (2002)-   presented at the AFS Casting

Congress; Kansas City MO; USA, May 2002: Copied from Proceeding of copper 95 , volume 1 , pp. 477-  490 (1995).

9.       Adv. Materials Research, Vol. 4-5 (1997) pp. 439-444: Copied from   Materials Science Forum, Vol. 215-216 (1996) pp. 503-510.

10.   Journal of Materials Processing Technology 153-154 (2004) 589-595: Copied from Canadian Metallurgy Quarterly, Vol. 42, No.3, pp. 333-342, 2003.

11.   Canadian Metallurgy Quarterly, Vol. 42, No.3, pp. 333-342, 2003; Copied entirely from a Conference paper published in 1988.  Original co-authors are removed. Please inform co-authors (DeMont and Ghoreshy.....).

12.   Int. Journal of Cast Metals Research, Vol. 16, No 1-3 (2003), pp.215: Copied from Journal of Materials Processing Technology 133 (2003) 297-303.

13.   American Foundry Society Transaction 02-109, pp. 375-381: Copied from “Light Metals 2002”, Proceedings of the International Symp. On Enabling Technologies for Light Metals.... (2002), pp. 71- 81.

14.      “The influence of Marangoni flows on..........”  Annals of NY Academy of Sciences, Vol. 974, 110-123 (2002).  This paper is copied from the following papers:

 AFS Transaction 01-120 (page 1 to 12), AFS Transaction 02-109 (page 1 to 7), Light Metals 2002, P. 71-81

Co-authors Li, Liao, and Shkura are dropped from the Annals paper.

15.  R.W. Smith “ The use of Flux.......” 10^th international symp. On experimental methods......1998, 233-242.  Copied from “ Use of the Zarm drop.......”, Microgravity Sci. And Technol XI/4 (1997) pp178-186.

(The results in this single- author paper are coming from a paper by Vekris et al. It is based on a Master thesis written by Mr. Vekris (Queen’s University).

16.  ATEN A new ...... Annals of NY Acd. Sciences, pp 157-163, vol. 974 (published on line 2006) : Copied from “ATEN Multi-Purpose furnace.......by Casgrain and Misener, TMS 2003, 132 annual meeting, San Diego, California.

17.  Materials Science Forum, Vol. 215-216 (1996) pp. 503-510: Copied from Concurrent Engineering Approach to Materials Processing, Ed. Dwivedi SN et al (1992) pp. 217-229.

18. Recent Measurement ........, J. Jpn. Soc. Microgravity Appl. Vol. 16, No.4 1999 (234-244): Copied from recent Measurement........., Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc.  Vol . 551, 1999, pp 269-274. 

19. AFS Transaction 02-109 : Copied from Microgravity Transport Processes in ........conference Sept. 30-Oct. 5, Banff, Canada pp. 97-105 (2001).

20. AFS Transactions 01-120 (page 579-591): Copied from  “Microgravity Transport Processes in ........conference Sept. 30-Oct. 5, Banff, Canada pp 97-105 (2001). 

21. Recent Measurement ........, J. jpn. Soc. Microgravity Appl. Vol. 16, No.4 1999 (234-244) : Copied from “The vibration environment on the international......”  Acta Astronautica, Vol. 48 (2001) 59- 70.

22. “Solute diffusion.........” Smith etal. 12^th international proceeding of the experimental methods for microgravity materials science  ASM International (2000) : Copied from Micro-gravity Sci. Technol. XI /2 (1998), pp.78 -84).

23.    RW Smith, “The influence of g-jitter on liquid............”,   Microgravity Sci. Technol. XI/2, 78-84 (1998):  All the results in this single- author paper are copied from a Master thesis written by Josee Robert (Queen’s University).  

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