Indian scientist Prof. Karmeshu has reportedly alleged that British professor Demetres Kouvatsos has copied ideas from a paper written by him and his doctoral student Shachi Sharma. Karmeshu had earlier submitted the research manuscript to Performance Evaluation, a peer-reviewed journal that had then rejected the manuscript. Kouvatsos was one of the three reviewers who read the paper.
Karmeshu, a professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Sharma claim that there are 23 similarities between the two research papers. They allege that Kouvatsos, a professor of information systems at the University of Bradford in the UK, added a few additional equations to their research. He then presented a paper along with his student Salam Adli Assi at Euro-NGI 2007, a conference held in Norway, the Indian scientists allege. The conference was sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE), a non-profit organisation working among scientists and engineers.
Kouvatsos has, however, denied plagiarism. He is reportedly making a formal appeal against a ruling by IEEE in June for violating the organisation's principles. The ruling would ban him from publishing in its journals for a year.
