C.D. Lin is suspected theft
By 贺深泽 Shenze He
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This website reports the facts and evidence of the suspected academic stealing of Chunfang Devon Lin from Simon Fraser University in Canada，which consists of three parts:
(I). All original elements of my paper appear in C.D.Lin's papers.
(II). The skills for washing manuscripts : Stealing, Snatching，Cheating;
(iii). Boxin Tang is suspected manipulation of the peer-review process for papers.
1. Summary
In Feb. 2006, I sent my manuscript "Weak Correlation Experimental Designs" (in Chinese) to the editorial office of the journal "Mathematics in Practice and Theory" edited by the Chinese Mathematical Society, whose number in the editorial office is #060149.
The journal's manuscripts are generally reviewed by two reviewers，and the review period is generally within four months; but my manuscript has three reviewers, and the first trial lasted 19 months. On October 6, 2007, the "Repair and Acceptance" notice was received, but there was no substantive modification suggestion in the notice.
The revised draft was submitted on December 2, 2007, and another seven months of silence.
On Jun. 24, 2008, I received the information that I had queued up for printing after paying the page fee.
In Feb. 2009, the manuscript was finally published after three years [Vol.39, No.3, 99-107(2009)](referred to as He(2009)). The publication process took a full year longer than others. The first draft and proofread I have kept, as well as the text I translated into English after publication, are placed in my Google Sites, the homepage address:<https://sites.google.com/view/hszwced/%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5>
I moved to the US in 2013.. Since November 2014，I found successively that almost all the innovative elements in my manuscript including the definition of basic concepts, theorems of existence, optimization criterion, exchange algorithms, the definition of stacking operations and the stacking principle of orthogonal matrices, whole system, whole architecture appears in some papers by Chunfang Devon Lin and Boxin Tang et al from Simon Fraser University in Canada, mainly involving the following 5 papers:
During that time, I frequently emailed the editorial office to ask for the results. The reply was always "No response from experts", 2008-5-23 , the editor comforted me "I wish you happiness, the disaster will definitely pass." The reply is intriguing, and the editor knows what's going on.
On June 20, 2008 C.D.Lin received the notice about the doctoral thesis approval. My June 24 email was answered immediately,
These two events are by no means a coincidence. It must be the last respondent who maliciously delayed the review process of He (2009), if the reviewer not be Boxin Tang himself, must be a scholar closely related to him.
After I learned that my existence theorem for the zero-correlation design was rewritten by C.D.Lin as the existence theorem for OLHD, I urgently in Chinese complained to Runze Li, editor-in-chief of Annals Of Statistics. Runze Li really judged it to be a coincidence based on the publication dates of both parties. Sent many emails to Lin and Tang respectively in Chinese, Lin replied to me on August 9, 2018, "Google Scholar did not show the existence of my manuscript." "From the perspective of scientific rigor, we do not agree that our results are wrong." "There is no doubt that the most authoritative and top journal in the statistical field has its strict and fair review process." "with an anonymous associate editor and two anonymous reviewers." etc..
I had to study English, and reading and analyzing the above papers related to Lin. It was discovered that He (2009) system-wide appeared in her doctoral thesis, and Lin (2010) was a full-text fake article.
In the past 8 years, I have sent emails and letters to the editor-in-chief Lin Qun and the executive deputy editor Zhu Guangtian of "Mathematics in Practice and Theory" 9 times, request to find out the leak event of the manuscript and the leaker. Answer me by phone in October 2021. This matter is a personal act and has nothing to do with the editorial office. This is not acceptable. The incident happened during the review, and a suspecter of review cheating appeared, then the editorial office has the responsibility to investigate and deal with it.
I have also repeatedly presented my statement of the merits of the case to the Academic Ethics Administration of Simon Fraser University, the Biometrika editorial office, and the Annals Of Statistics editorial office. and request for investigation. All sent letters to the editor-in-chief of "Mathematics in Practice and Theory", but no reply was received. Therefore, they did not deal with it.
The case has fallen into a bizarre situation.C.D.Lin steals and rewrites my innovative elements, reversely imitates my algorithms and programs. After obtaining the results, and publishes preemptively the doctoral dissertation Lin (2008) and then publishes Lin (2009, 2010) to create an illusion of coincidence. The editorial office holding the evidence refused to provide evidence and asked the victim to provide confirmation of the theft. The victim was helpless.
In view of this, I had to fully disclose the same and similar objective facts of both works, and expose their fake theory covering up the theft. For the sake of academic purity and fairness, accordance with the academic ethics management philosophy of the Committee on Publication Ethics, I urge the relevant agencies to investigate and deal with it， and thank all clue providers and helpers.
This report is divided into two versions in Chinese and English，the Chinese version shall prevail.
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