Dual authorship of academic paper raises controversy

A recent online exposure that some academic papers were reportedly "co-written" by an 18-year-old high school student and her mother in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, has sparked a controversy. The papers published on cnki.net, China's largest database of research papers, show that the mother, who is a professor of Marxism at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, mostly served as secondary author. On the strength of the two papers, the student qualified for independent recruitment in two local universities. Comments:

My daughter was born and bred in a well-educated family and is surely capable of publishing her own academic papers. Like other students who are qualified for independent recruitment in universities, she still has to take the exams that follow and pass them to finally get admitted. The so-called exposure has a lot to do with some scholars who are jealous of her academic achievements.

Wu Ning, a professor with the School of Marxism, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, and the mother of the aforementioned high school student