Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Dissertation Council found no grounds for depriving Nikiforov scientific degree – TASS

MOSCOW, June 22nd. / TASS /. Dissertation Council of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANHiGS) under the President of the Russian Federation considered the arguments of the deprivation of the Minister of Communications initiators and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov PhD degree for plagiarism when writing a dissertation in economics unfounded and recommended VAK not deprive the head of the Ministry of Communications of a scientific degree.

this is stated in the conclusion of the dissertation Council available to the TASS.

“considers that the author’s arguments collective statement about the presence of incorrect borrowing thesis Nikiforov for the degree of candidate of economic sciences have not been confirmed. Recommend HAC of the Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation to uphold the earlier decision to award the NA Nikiforov degree of candidate of economic sciences “, – said in the conclusion of the Dissertation Council

What references.” dissernet “

The application of scientific misconduct received by the head of the Ministry of Communications of the Ministry of Education of the community initiative group “dissernet” – the network project to find plagiarism in academic papers and combating fraud in obtaining degrees. According to the community analysis, the thesis contains Nikiforov borrowing, sources of which were, in particular, the work of Alexander Yurtaeva “Creating innovative technologies in public administration” and Alexander Sosnowski “innovative model of information management in public health”, as well as a number of other publications. According to “dissernet” analysis showed borrowing by 81 of the 171 checked pages of content text thesis, which was about 31%.

Overall, the thesis Nikiforov for the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences on the theme “Innovative model for information management in the provision of public electronic services: the example of the republic of Tatarstan “, which he defended in Kazan state technological University December 16, 2011, totals 239 pages

The decision of the Dissertation Council

Dissertation Council. RANHiGS decided that the quality of the references to primary sources in the dissertation Nikiforov “significantly higher than in the dissertation by Alexander Sosnowski”. A coincidence works minister with a dissertation Alexander Yurtaeva due to the fact that they were both involved in the development of “Electronic Tatarstan” program, which gave them the right to use these materials in their studies.

Vice-Rector RANHiGS Aleksandr Margolin after the meeting told journalists suggested that the HAC support the decision of the Dissertation Council

“I think that will confirm -. he said -. there’s a very compelling point that sounded during the commission of the Dissertation Council established that. in Nikiforov have links, and in the work of the author, in which he allegedly copied, such references do not. Not only that, he even in the reference list of such works is not “.

According to the procedure, Dissertation Council should apply in a timely manner a list of documents, including audio, video and opinion on the advisory council VAK. Advisory council VAK then consider the opinion of the Dissertation Council. Only then presidium WAC will make a final decision with respect to Nikiforov.

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