Academic wrongs must not be ignored

LIANG YING, a professor from the School of Social and Behavior Sciences, Nanjing University, is reported to have deleted 120 papers she wrote from online versions of academic journals. Thepaper.cn comments:

Liang claimed that she deleted the essays because they were written in her early academic years and were of low quality. Yet a probe by China Youth Daily found that some of them might contain plagiarism. Even though the essays have been deleted from the online databases of the academic journals, the printed journals still exist and anybody who doubts its claims can take a look for themselves.

Liang has previously admitted academic misbehavior in the past, saying that it happened before the first national crackdown on academic malfeasance was launched in 2005.