<p>Rejecting charges of plagiarism in a paper co-authored by him, prominent scientist C N R Rao today said it was an instance of ''copying'' of a few sentences of text.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"This should not be really considered as plagiarism, but an instance of copying of a few sentences in the text," Rao, Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister, said.<br />Editorial office of Advanced Materials, which published the paper 'Infrared Photo-detectors Based on Reduced Graphene Oxide and Graphene Nanoribbons' on July 22, 2011, has sought clarifications about "possible overlaps" between it and a paper published in Applied Physics Letters in April 2010.<br /><br />Besides Rao, the paper has been authored by Indian Institute of Science student Basant Chitara, L S Panchakarla of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and IISc Professor S B Krupanidhi.<br /><br />The clarification was sought by Advanced Materials in a July 28, 2011 letter to Rao and Prof Krupanidhi.<br /><br />Objecting to the use of the word "plagiarism", Rao said the "copying" took place "because of Chitara".<br /><br />The student had apologised for copying the sentences, Rao told PTI.<br />He said the apology was sent long ago soon after the paper was on the Internet but the Editor decided to publish the paper since the scientific content was good.<br />Chitara had copied one sentence about the advantage of using solution processed material and another on description of a well-known equation from the literature, he said.<br /><br />"I myself had written to the Editor that it was best to withdraw the paper," Rao said.<br />He said the paper was written by Prof Krupanidhi and he did not go through it and had no control on the issue.<br /><br />"I did not directly produce the manuscript which I normally do... The paper seemed perfectly alright except that later we found that in the introduction and in the description of an equation, a few sentences had been taken from a paper published already," he added.</p>
<p>Rejecting charges of plagiarism in a paper co-authored by him, prominent scientist C N R Rao today said it was an instance of ''copying'' of a few sentences of text.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"This should not be really considered as plagiarism, but an instance of copying of a few sentences in the text," Rao, Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister, said.<br />Editorial office of Advanced Materials, which published the paper 'Infrared Photo-detectors Based on Reduced Graphene Oxide and Graphene Nanoribbons' on July 22, 2011, has sought clarifications about "possible overlaps" between it and a paper published in Applied Physics Letters in April 2010.<br /><br />Besides Rao, the paper has been authored by Indian Institute of Science student Basant Chitara, L S Panchakarla of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and IISc Professor S B Krupanidhi.<br /><br />The clarification was sought by Advanced Materials in a July 28, 2011 letter to Rao and Prof Krupanidhi.<br /><br />Objecting to the use of the word "plagiarism", Rao said the "copying" took place "because of Chitara".<br /><br />The student had apologised for copying the sentences, Rao told PTI.<br />He said the apology was sent long ago soon after the paper was on the Internet but the Editor decided to publish the paper since the scientific content was good.<br />Chitara had copied one sentence about the advantage of using solution processed material and another on description of a well-known equation from the literature, he said.<br /><br />"I myself had written to the Editor that it was best to withdraw the paper," Rao said.<br />He said the paper was written by Prof Krupanidhi and he did not go through it and had no control on the issue.<br /><br />"I did not directly produce the manuscript which I normally do... The paper seemed perfectly alright except that later we found that in the introduction and in the description of an equation, a few sentences had been taken from a paper published already," he added.</p>
