Dănuț Marcu (born 11 January 1952) is a Romanian mathematician and computer scientist. He claimed to have authored more than 400 scientific papers.Marcu's personal web page.
He graduated with degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Bucharest and received his Ph.D. from the same university in 1981. His doctoral thesis, Algebraic and Combinatorial Methods for the Study of the Connectivity of Finite Networks, was written under the direction of Sergiu Rudeanu.
Marcu was frequently accused of plagiarism... This paper quotes concerning Marcu, including the quote from an unnamed "well-known mathematician" that "Marcu is a notorious plagiarist".. The editors of Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai, Informatica decided to ban Marcu from their journal for this reason, as did the editors of 4OR See also Graph Theory publications “authored” by Dănuț Marcu and an example (compare with the original) at the 4OR website.Editorial note by Bouyssou, Martello, and Plastria Plagiarism again: Sreenivas and Srinivas, with an update on Marcu at the 4OR website and the editors of Geombinatorics. One of the plagiarized works discovered by Soifer was written by noted mail-bomber Theodore Kaczynski. The editors of Geometriae Dedicata state that they suspect Marcu of plagiarism, as he submitted a manuscript which is "more-or-less word for word the same" as a paper by Bernt Lindström.Karl Strambach and Ferdinand D. Veldkamp, "Editorial statement", Geometriae Dedicata 32 (1989), p. 253; see also and . Jerrold W. Grossman, Sanpei Kageyama, Martin R. Pettet, and anonymous reviewers have accused Marcu of plagiarism in MathSciNet reviews.MathSciNet Reviews , , , , , , , and by Grossman; MathSciNet Review by Kageyama; MathSciNet Review by Pettet; MathSciNet Reviews , , , and by anonymous reviewers. According to the managing editors of Menemui Matematik, Marcu's paper in that journal is a well known result in graph theory, and the paper "should not have been published".
See also List of scientific misconduct incidents
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