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Type of site | Social movement |
|---|---|
| Available in | Russian |
| Created by | Andrey Rostovtsev |
| URL | dissernet |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 23 September 2013 |
| Current status | Working |
Dissernet (Russian: Диссернет) is a volunteer community network working to clean Russian science of plagiarism. The core activity of the community is conducting examinations of doctoral and habilitation (higher doctorate) theses defended in Russian scientific and educational institutions since the end of the 1990s, and making the results of such examinations known to as many people as possible. The community is composed of professional scientists working in various fields of science both in Russia and abroad, and also journalists, civil activists and volunteers.
The community was established in January 2013. The full Dissernet site, dissernet.org, as well as its reduced version, dissernet.ru, were opened on 23 September 2013.[1]
By 2016, the project identified around 5,600 suspected plagiarists—focusing on officials in government and academia, and other member the country's elite—and released reports on around 1,300 of them.[2] Russian media regularly report on Dissernet's findings, and the site has been credited with raising attention for the issue of academic fraud in the country.[2] In a 2016 exposé, Dissernet showed that one in nine members of the State Duma had obtained academic degrees with theses that were substantially plagiarized and likely ghostwritten.[2]
- ^ ""Dissernet's" community opened a site". Rupaper.com. September 24, 2013. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
- ^ a b c Neyfakh, Leon (2016-05-22). "The Craziest Black Market in Russia". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Archived from the original on 2016-12-30. Retrieved 2016-05-23.