On May 25, Professor Gui Guan of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications and his student Huang Huang boarded the Zhihu Hot List at the same time.

Huang, who once pretended to be a Peking University student but was eventually canceled by Tsinghua University, now relies on a bunch of papers to apply to the only mainland doctoral student in the Department of Electrical Engineering of the California Institute of Technology in 2020.

While everyone is paying attention to Huang, his mentor, Gui Guan, was touched by netizen Shun Teng, arguing that he turned out to be a “buffalo” in the academic circle.

According to netizens, Laurel published more than 300 IEEE papers in three and a half years, including as many as 50 papers published in the open source journal IEEE Access.

This event has once again stimulated discussion about the “water thesis” in the academic circle. Some people think that this is “a problem with the evaluation mechanism. Almost all evaluation criteria are linked to the thesis. At this time, there are people who are good at drilling, doing things within the rules, and one article is normal in 4 days.” Some netizens criticized that “the irrigation field is very serious “” IEEE Access has written dozens of articles without any lower limit “……


This year ’s only mainland doctoral student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology

This time classmate Huang and mentor Guiguan were sent to the hot search primer, is The former is accepted by the California Institute of Technology in electrical engineering.

The strength of the California Institute of Technology is self-evident. As of October 2019, this university with only about 2,000 students has out of 74 Nobel Prize winners.

Yan Huang successfully applied for the only mainland doctoral degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering of the California Institute of Technology with only 20 points in TOEFL speaking.

It is understood that Mr. Huang holds a recommendation letter from a professor at MIT and Stanford University. This adds a lot of points.

At the same time, he also published an” inspirational “article on the operation number of an overseas study institution, introducing everyone how he was successfully admitted through the institution.

In fact, in academic terms, Huang ’s previous articles have been found by netizens to find many low-level errors and loopholes.

An in-depth reinforcement learning + drone navigation paper of the classmates was analyzed as an example, indicating that the article is far from the standard of first-year course projects for undergraduates, and it will be rejected in seconds for any Machine Learning or Robotics conferences or journals. < br>

This makes netizens ca n’t help but ask: “I want to know how Huang took the chance to go to California Institute of Technology.”

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The mentor was exposed to essay irrigation

While paying attention to classmate Huang, attentive netizens took the laurels of his mentor.


Laureate Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications Picture

Do n’t read it, startled. “More than 300 IEEE papers were published in 3 and a half years.” Netizens were instantly ignited by such breaking news.

According to the statistics on the IEEE Xplore information website, a total of 139 papers were collected from 2017 to 2020, of which 52 were IEEE Access and 21 were IEEE Trans. In 2020 alone, there are 25 papers published on it, an average of one per week.

It is worth noting that few of these papers have a good reputation in the communications field, such as in JSAC, TWC, TSP, TIT and other journals.

The main issue of IEEE Access is known by some netizens in the circle as the “emergency journal” “water money can be issued” water magazine.

Netizens also analyzed Deep Learning ’s highest cited article Deep Learning for an Effective Nonorthogonal Multiple Access Scheme and found that it was cited 214 times (IEEE Xplore counted 173 times by IEEE Press) , Of which 43 times are self-cited and IEEE Access cited 110 times.

“The latter can be achieved by asking the author to add citations when reviewing the manuscript.” The netizen analyzed.

However, this professor, now known as “Buffalo”, in 2018 at the meeting point news titled “Professor Nanyou Post 80s: Extracted with the” Craftsmanship ” The laurel of life is a different look.

He was twice in the senior high school entrance examination and repeated one year in the college entrance examination, and finally turned against the wind to usher in the “learning scum” of the peak of life; Modify the paper in person, and write in the WeChat circle of friends: “It is my most enjoyable moment to change the paper quietly.”


Before the masterpiece system cracked down on the “water thesis”

, everyone spit out the biochemical ring material field is the hardest hit area for the paper irrigation. However, after the Laurel and Huang students attracted extensive attention this time, the phenomenon of water thesis in the field of communication also entered people’s vision.

In this regard, some people said that it is not unexpected, “named articles, water access, can only be said to be unspoken rules of the industry.”

Moreover, it seems that water thesis also has a complete “operational model”: water thesis-apply for project funding from papers with water-get more money from the project Papers-Taking more papers to deceive more money seems to be a vicious circle.

According to Xin Zhiyuan reports, the publication fee of an article in IEEE open source journal IEEE Access is up to 1750The US dollar is about RMB 12,491 yuan.

According to the high output of the laurel wreath, it is also unusual to be able to withstand such a high layout fee.

In fact, this vicious circle and bad atmosphere have already attracted the attention of relevant national departments.

The Guiding Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Title System of Natural Science Researchers (Consultation Draft) (hereinafter referred to as the “Guiding Opinions”) issued in 2018 clearly proposed representative works The system, “Take the representative achievements of natural science researchers as an important content of job title evaluation, pay attention to the quality, contribution, and influence of iconic achievements, establish a representative work system for job title evaluation, and at the same time strictly perform a representative work review system to ensure the credibility of representative evaluations”

Since then, relevant departments have made heavy punches to reverse the unhealthy trend of “numerical thesis” in scientific research evaluation, and strongly promote the representative work system in various awards and honors.

However, although the relevant departments are constantly plugging the loopholes, there are always things that are deeply ingrained and difficult to remove at once.

This incident of the Laurel and Huang classmates is an example.

Turn on the post of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, one of the posts is “Do you have a graduate student of Guiguan, how about Teacher Guiguan? Please tell the senior student, thank you!” After the last reply of 2019-09-01: “access professional account”, we finally ushered in a new comment-“Fake is famous, knowing that it is on the hammer”.

At the same time, some netizens also said that they would report Huang ’s academic fraud to the California Institute of Technology.

Science Network will continue to pay attention to how this matter will develop in the future.

(Originally titled “More than 300 papers issued in 3 and a half years? Nanyou students were accepted by prestigious schools and brought out” Buffalo instructors “)