Recently, Wu Qinglong, a professor at a university in Nanjing, reported Dong Guanghui, a professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of Resources and Environment of Lanzhou University, for academic misconduct such as plagiarism and distortion of quotations. On this matter, on December 25th, the staff of the Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Lanzhou University told The Paper that they had received the relevant tip-off letter and submitted it to the leaders, and would handle it according to the procedures stipulated in the letters and visits, and would inform them of the results.
Dong Guanghui also replied by email that academic questions are expected to be answered in an academic way, and I believe a fair reply will be given. He said that it is not convenient for him to reply now, and he can ask the author suspected of plagiarism to express his views on the issue of plagiarism. As for the other contents, "there will naturally be corresponding conclusions after the survey results come out."
Earlier, Wu Qinglong said that his tip-off letter had been sent to Lanzhou University, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Education, and asked Lanzhou University to forward it to the Ministry of Education, the China Academy of Sciences and the Gansu Provincial Department of Education, and asked the National Natural Science Foundation of China to forward it to the Ministry of Science and Technology.
The Paper noticed that the tip-off letter mainly targeted at three articles written by Dong Guanghui.
The first paper is "Ancient Landslide-Dam Events in the Jishi Gorge, Upper Yellow River, China" published by Dong Guanghui as the first author and correspondent in Volume 81 of Quaternary Research in May 2014.
Wu Qinglong pointed out that the above-mentioned papers have seriously distorted and falsified quotations, and are suspected of plagiarizing the maps of the ancient dammed lake deposits in Jishixia.
Screenshot of the evidence listed in Wu Qinglong’s tip-off.
The second article is Dong Guanghui’s essay "Response to Comment on ‘" published by the first author and correspondent on May 22, 2015 in Volume 348, Issue 6237 of Science magazine. Agriculture facilitated permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600 B.P.’” . The background of this article is that Dr. Guedes of Washington State University questioned an academic research viewpoint of the environmental archaeology research team led by Professor Chen Fahu of Lanzhou University, and Dong Guanghui responded as one of the authors.
Wu Qinglong believes that Dong Guanghui’s response article, which is only over 600 words in length, has some problems such as lack of scientific integrity and many distortions and fabrications. For example, the concept of stealing is used to refute Guedes’ doubts about archaeological evidence in the northeast of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by using the altitude data of barley cultivation in the central and southern parts of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
There is also an article entitled "The Prehistoric Disaster of Lajia Site has nothing to do with the Great Flood" published by Dong Guanghui as the first author and correspondent in China Science: Earth Science, Volume 48, No.4 in 2018. Wu Qinglong said that the paper was suspected of plagiarizing academic opinions and multiple sets of chronological data.
In addition, the tip-off letter said that Dong Guanghui used "earthquake liquefaction sand blasting" as an important support point in "Prehistoric disasters at Lajia Site have nothing to do with the flood", which was suspected of plagiarizing the views put forward by Professor Xia Zhengkai and Dr. Yang Xiaoyan of Peking University in 2003.
In this regard, Dong Guanghui said that since some people say that they plagiarized other people’s academic views, they can ask the author suspected of plagiarism to express his views on this.
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