The only candidate who withdrew his application for the associate professorship was a member of the interdisciplinary council of agriculture and forestry. Previously, this person was accused of a series of violations of scientific integrity in international publications.
The Office of the State Council of Professors said that Minister and Chairman of the State Council of Professors Nguyen Kim Son signed Decision 89/QD-HDGSNN recognizing 614 candidates who meet the standards of professor and associate professor in the 2024 review period.
Of these, there are 45 professor candidates and 569 associate professor candidates. Compared to the list approved by the State Council of Professors in the meeting on November 2-3, there is one less associate professor candidate. This is the candidate who was previously accused of violating scientific integrity.
Meeting on November 2-3 of the State Council of Professors for the 2024-2029 term
This year, the literature department has no candidates for associate professor or professor. The departments without professor candidates include: pharmacy, education, military science, metallurgy, linguistics, culture - arts, physical education - sports.
The fields with the most candidates recognized as meeting associate professor and professor standards are still economics (100 candidates) and medicine (71 candidates).
The candidate who withdrew his application was accused of violating scientific integrity.
Regarding the case of a candidate whose name is not included in Decision No. 89/QD-HDGSNN even though it has been approved by the State Council of Professors, Mr. Tran Anh Tuan, Chief of Office of the State Council of Professors, said that the candidate belongs to the interdisciplinary council of agriculture and forestry. The reason for not being included is that the candidate requested to withdraw his application for the associate professorship.
According to Thanh Nien 's investigation, the candidate who withdrew (temporarily called candidate P.) is a vice dean of a member university of Ho Chi Minh City National University, but located in An Giang province.
During this year's associate professor and professor review season, from September (before the industry councils started working) until now, candidate P. has been accused many times by anonymous letters of violating scientific integrity such as: repeatedly publishing articles (scientific works) in predatory journals, fake journals; articles published in Q1 journal (a journal in the top 25% of SCImago's classification) but the content is seriously incorrect; articles published in Q1 journal in 2024 but the content is similar to articles published in 2019 by another author...
It is known that the Standing Committee of the State Council of Professors has repeatedly requested the Agricultural - Forestry Interdisciplinary Council to explain the case of candidate P., but each time the interdisciplinary council affirmed that it had made the correct assessment. After assessment and screening, the interdisciplinary council found that candidate P. still had enough 3 articles (6 examiners including the first 3 times, 3 times of re-assessment all found it satisfactory).
However, after announcing the list of candidates approved by the State Council of Professors (meeting on November 2-3), the Office of the State Council of Professors continued to receive an anonymous letter about candidate P. The person who sent the letter expressed his loss of confidence in "leading scientists, the best of the country" and deliberately ignored the very clear evidence showing that candidate P. not only seriously violated scientific integrity but also had poor scientific research capacity.
After this application, the Interdisciplinary Council of Agriculture and Forestry still affirmed that the results of the Interdisciplinary Council were correct. However, candidate P. later submitted a request to withdraw his application and was accepted by the State Council of Professors.
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/ung-vien-pho-giao-su-bi-to-vi-pham-liem-chinh-khoa-hoc-xin-rut-ho-so-185241121173145763.htm
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