Unusual Author Pattern on Some Papers by ZHOU, Di

Recently, the 5GH team found some unusual authorship pattern on ZHOU's papers.

ZHOU was listed as a co-author, and he was the only one author from China, none of his team members in Xi'an Jiaotong University was listed as the co-authors. Other co-authors were from Russia, Middle East, and other countries.

Considering ZHOU is the leader of a large group (more than 30 students were listed on his website), and he is are one of the top administratives for a key laboratory of the Ministry of Education, we hardly think ZHOU conducted the experiments, and/or visualized the data, as mentioned on the papers.

Therefore, the ZHOU's authorship on these papers is questionable.








Author: WU Guangheng

Founder and Chair of the 5GH Foundation

E-Mail: wu@5gh.org.cn

Document ID: 5GH-WuGH-20240821.001

Publication Date: 2024.08.21

This article is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License

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