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上海交大电子系论文抄袭被ELECTRONICS LETTERS发文通报

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根据《上海交通大学学报》2004,38卷增刊上的论文“自适应判决门限PN码混合
捕获方案”（作者：宋阳，胡光锐，刘烨），抄袭论文的作者应该是宋阳和胡光
锐。

ELECTRONICS LETTERS 14th April 2005 Vol. 41 No. 8

A note on plagiarism

Electronics Letters prides itself on its rigorous peer review process 
that is essential to ensure the high standard of the short research 
papers that are published. A huge number of researchers across the 
spectrum of electronic science and engineering give up their valuable 
time to provide expert opinions on the quality and originality of the 
Letters that are submitted. However, this process is not totally 
infallible, and on very rare occasions, a paper may slip through to be 
published that is not entirely original or does not give due 
recognition to previous work. In the most serious of these cases, a 
plagiarism occurs. 

Whether deliberate or accidental, plagiarism is extremely serious and 
these cases need to be publicised as they have an impact on the 
integrity of the journal. Unfortunately one such case has recently 
been brought to our attention by H. Goldman, the author of the 
original work, who has written the following on the matter:

The following claim was made in a recent paper by Y. Song and G. Hu [1]: 
‘In this Letter, we introduce the excision CFAR (E-CFAR) method . . . 
’. The Excision CFAR Detector has indeed been introduced in an IEE 
publication, but it was not in [1]. The original papers on the 
Excision Detector were published in the IEE Proceedings in 1988 [2] 
and 1990 [3].

The paper by Song and Hu [1] is an unfortunate example of plagiarism. 
Considerable portions of [1] were copied verbatim, 
sentence-by-sentence and equation-by-equation, from the two original 
papers which were not included in the list of references. Of the ten 
equations in [1], eight equations were reproduced from [2] and [3]. 
Consequently, if the plagiarised material in [1] is extracted, very 
little remains.

References
1 Song, Y., and Hu, G.: ‘Adaptive acquisition of PN code using 
excision CFAR detector in multipath fading mobile channels’, 
Electronics Letters, 40, (5), 4 March 2004, pp. 338–339
2 Goldman, H., and Bar-David, I.: ‘Analysis and applications of the 
excision CFAR detector’, IEE Proceedings, Part F, December 1988, pp. 
563–575
3 Goldman, H.: ‘Performance of the excision CFAR detector in the 
presence of interferers’,IEE Proceedings, Part F, June 1990, pp. 163
–171

The Editors of Electronics Letters would like to apologise to H. 
Goldman for this serious incident, although thankfully it is a rare 
occurrence in over forty years of the publication.

(XYS20050520)

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