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Chapter 761 752: Chief Scientist's Fraud Exposed (Part 2)

High-achieving students who score over 600 points generally have an accurate estimate after seeing their answers. So even if he's not the provincial top scorer, just a high-achieving student with over 600 points, he wouldn't apply to Xijing Transportation University, but would choose better schools."Wen Liangfeng, with just a few words, pinpointed the biggest problem in Professor Guo's resume.

Which is that this Professor Guo is not only not the provincial top scorer but is very likely not a high achiever, with average college entrance exam results.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have created such a glaring flaw when forging his resume.

"Next, looking at his career history, from 2006 to 2023, he served as a senior researcher at the German Academy of Sciences and as the Chief Engineer at Sany Group's European branch.

I couldn't verify personnel files from the German Academy of Sciences, but the personnel files for senior staff of Sany Group's European branch are public. And guess what, Sany Group's European branch doesn't even have a Chief Engineer position.

Which means his position is entirely fabricated."

"What about his papers?" Chen Yiyang asked, "His students say he has many patents and papers. Can those be verified for authenticity?"

"I think, ironically, Professor Guo's papers are likely the most genuine part of his credentials," Wen Liangfeng replied.

"What do you mean, are you suggesting that Professor Guo actually published many impressive papers?"

"Not exactly." Wen Liangfeng explained the reason to Chen Yiyang.

"Top-tier papers are generally written in English format, so even when Chinese people publish in top international journals, they write their names in pinyin instead of Chinese characters.

Following this convention, when Professor Guo publishes papers, the way his name should appear is 'WEI GUO.'

And there are over six million academic papers authored by individuals named WEI GUO accessible online; even in the fields of nanomaterials and titanium alloys, there are thousands of papers with the author listed as WEI GUO."

"In other words, in terms of academic papers, it's very likely that this Professor Guo appropriated papers by others with the same name and passed them off as his own.

Then he used these papers to forge a seemingly perfect resume. Because the papers part of his resume was genuine, others believed it."

"Exactly." Wen Liangfeng said, "I think that's exactly it. Posing as an internationally renowned expert seems like it would be very difficult.

But actually, this kind of masquerade is simpler than posing as an ordinary scientist.

I'm confident that Japan's Wolonggang University once had a scholar named WEI GUO who published papers on nanoenergy batteries, and Kyushu University had someone by the same name who published papers on titanium alloys.

Whether these two WEI GUOs are the same person doesn't matter; as long as a senior researcher named WEI GUO exists at the National Academy of Sciences, Professor Guo can claim these achievements as his own and masquerade as a scholar with international influence.

Because domestic and international archives are not interconnected. So, if this Professor Guo can buy a credential as a foreign academician at the Russian Academy of Engineering, he can participate in the national talent introduction plan.

Once reviewers confirm they can find papers by Professor Guo, they won't scrutinize the minor details too much.

And the embellished resume of Professor Guo means that after he arrives in the country, he mainly oversees projects and has students do the work instead of doing it himself."

Wen Liangfeng highlighted the key point.

The reason this Professor Guo could get away with a fabricated resume domestically for so long.

Is mainly that top-level scientists and top-level politicians are the same; they don't need to work hands-on, as long as they can steer the big direction correctly.

This approach is correct.

Because top-level scientists have already proven themselves with early achievements, and as they age, their past experiences become their strongest asset rather than current research capabilities.

So, masquerading as a top-level scientist because they're not responsible for specific research is harder to expose.

"Have you ever heard of the case of the fake Lu Jun?" Wen Liangfeng followed with a question.

"No." Prior to this, Chen Yiyang had only heard of the Hanxin fraud incident regarding academic fraud in the country.

"The case of the fake Lu Jun is quite similar to that of Professor Guo. His true identity is a mystery, only known as Lu Jun.

He fabricated a doctoral degree and post-doctoral experience from the University of Toronto in Canada, and appropriated 7 top journal papers of Professor Lu Jun from Yale University, deceiving his way to becoming a young thousand-talent plan and full professor at Imperial Chemical University.

The method is the same, using the commonality in Chinese names transliterated into English in academic papers to appropriate others' papers and fake one's identity, successfully becoming a university professor.

But later it was the appropriation of these papers that led to his exposure as a fraud. Because when he openly recruited teaching staff for his team, he listed seven highly significant papers.

This made the scholars applying to his team suspicious, leading them to provide clues to Fang Zhouzi. Once he investigated a bit, it was exposed.

Because the papers he appropriated were from different JUN LUs, so if each paper was investigated to identify which scholars actually authored them, one quickly based on identity could determine whether fraud had occurred."

When Wen Liangfeng reached this point, Chen Yiyang finally understood all the questionable points.

Professor Guo's methods were exactly like Lu Jun's.

First, leveraging the commonality of names, attributed others' papers to himself.

Then, based on the original author's nationality, he forged his own resume.

Finally, using these resumes to secure positions, becoming a high-level academic who did not engage in specific research but rather oversaw projects.

And Professor Guo was much smarter than the fake Lu Jun, never engaging in external recruitment, to avoid being caught.

Because as long as his resume didn't spread, it circulated only in small circles. The ordinary students and teachers within those circles, because the other party had been endorsed by many review experts, would not question his identity.

Following the call with Wen Liangfeng, Chen Yiyang then used the contacts of several of Professor Guo's students he had previously gathered, and summoned these students to his hotel.

"Have you ever felt something off about your mentor?" Once Chen Yiyang met these students, he directly asked openly.

These students exchanged glances for a while, before one of them bravely spoke up.

"Mr. Chen, are you suspecting our professor's resume is fake?"

"Seems like you had a sense before?" Chen Yiyang looked at this student.

"I've been a Ph.D. student under Professor Guo for two years. Initially, when I consulted the professor on issues in the field of materials, I didn't get a clear answer, which led to some doubt."

"Why did you stop doubting?" Chen Yiyang asked.

"Because the professor indeed brought in many projects. As long as there were projects giving us doctoral students hands-on practice, I talked myself out of my doubts."

Chen Yiyang understood the student's concern.

For others, exposing a fraud is one thing.

But for these doctoral and master's students, if their mentor is exposed as having fraudulent credentials, the impact is catastrophic for them.

Because all the experiments they've done and papers they've published would have Professor Guo's name listed as an author.

If Professor Guo is disqualified for fraud, then all their work, papers, experiments, data from the past years become void and they need to re-do everything, and find a new mentor to endorse their work.

This would be utterly devastating for them.

"Moreover," continued the student, "the school benefits greatly from bringing in a high-level talent, receiving substantial funding and policy credits.

Whether our report succeeds or fails, it will offend people either way."