A review paper by Massoumeh Ebtekar, the former vice-president of Iran and an immu-nologist at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, is to be retracted from an Iranian journal following allegations that it was almost entirely stitched together from other scientists' papers. The paper came to light after a Nature News article about the Deja Vu web database at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, which lists articles with potential plagiarisms (see Nature 455, 715; 2008). Among the resulting spike in hits, Harold Garner's team, which runs the database, noticed many came from Farsi-language forums and blogs in Iran (see http://alef.ir/ content/view/32958).
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