Reflection

The research paper titled Novel Control Algorithm for the Foot Placement of a Walking Bipedal Robot was published on January 2013 and was retracted on April 2014. The reason for its retraction was plagiarism. The two authors, Wanli Liu and Meng Guo plagiarized majority of the texts and equations from a doctoral thesis written by Tomas de Boer. The doctoral thesis was published on March 2012. As reflected by the data section of the poster, you can see by the highlighted words, that Liu and Guo failed to respect the scientific community. If there are any differences seen between the two figures, then it is most likely due to the paraphrasing of the words. However, it is still considered plagiarism because ideas were stolen.

Plagiarism is an unethical behavior as it is stealing one’s idea(s) and making them your own. There are severe consequences of plagiarism such as losing author credibility and having your paper retracted. We must make sure we check for plagiarism in our own work. Failing to do so can cause consequences, even if it were by mistake. Authors must understand how important it is to cite or reference any ideas that are not their own. To avoid plagiarizing by mistake, you should always manage your citations and have someone credible peer review your work.