Saturday, October 10, 2009

Dr. Anilir's Mysterious Publication List for 2003

Dr. Serkan ANILIR obtained Ph. D. in Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2003. Then he took a research staff position at Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), now part of JAXA. Dr. Anilir's his scientific works were reported in the publication list within the annual report of ISAS for 2003. (original version)

NOTE: after the problem was surfaced, ISAS removed the 4 publications by Dr. Anilir from the annual report on the web, because "there were mistakes". The removal is announced, dated November 5, 2009, on the web page for the annual report 2003 (in Japanese). The removal of the publications was also reported by Nikkei and Asahi newspapers. See this and this entries of this blog. The "corrected" publication list no longer contains the 4 publications, existence of which was questioned by us. In the following, the original publication list before the removal is discussed. In fact, there are other publications in the list, and we wonder if existence of all of them has been confirmed or not.

 The publications attributed to Dr. Anilir are as follows (the numbers given by this blog):
  1. S. Anilir: The Role of Space-Based Manufacturing in an Evolving Space Economy: SPACEAN Workshop Publications, Turkish Air Force, Ankara-Turkey, (2003).
  2. S.Anilir: Designing in Parallel Universes and 11th Dimension: Physical Review Letter, January 2004 Edition, p.22, (2003).
  3. S. Anilir S.: Energy for Housing in the 21st Century- Advanced Technology Paths from Space Solar Power into Terrestrial Architecture: Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, Middle East Technical University (METU): Vol. 23, No. 9-10, (2003).
  4. B.TODD, S.Anilir: The NEEMO Project, A Report on how NASA utilizes the ‘Aquarius’ Undersea Habitat as an Analog for Long-Duration Space Flight: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Magazine, (2003).
  5. S.Anilir: Terraforming Mars: Popular Science Magazine, December Edition, Ankara, Turkey: p.12-18, (2003).
We found the following.

No. 2: The "Physical Review Letter" paper does not seem to exist, as discussed in another entry.

No. 3: The Journal exists and can be seen on-line. However, his paper cannot be found. In fact, it is a biannual publication and only "No. 1" and "No. 2" are issued. ("No. 9-10" in Dr. Anilir's entry cannot be found.) Moreover, it seems that the Journal was not issued in years 2001-2003. (Volume 20 in 2000, Volume 21 in 2004).

No. 4: NOAA Magazine existed and its archive is available on-line. However, Dr. Anilir's article cannot be found. On the other hand, in a different Proceedings, we found a paper with the same title.
Bill Todd and Marc Reagan, The NEEMO Project: A Report on How NASA Utilizes the “Aquarius” Undersea Habitat as an Analog for Long-Duration Space Flight
Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments: Earth & Space 2004, pp. 751-758, (doi 10.1061/40722(153)103)
The first author "Bill Todd" agrees with the above list. However, the second author of the Proceeding is Marc Reagan, not Serkan Anilir. It looks as if the title is taken from the paper of Todd and Reagan, the name of the second author is replaced by Dr. Anilir's name.

No. 1: The workshop might be the one found in this URL. So far we do not find Dr. Anilir's contribution here. Is there a published Proceedings?

No. 5: We are looking for the information about "Popular Science Magazine" published in Ankara, Turkey.

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12 comments:

  1. http://www.tayyareci.com/makaleler/spacean.as

    there is not a conference issue related with "serkan anilir" at SPACEAN Workshop Publications
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  2. S. Anilir, Y.MURAKAMI, Y.KOMURE: Design of a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Hotel connected to a Space Elevator: Space
    2003 Congress, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA): Long Beach, California, U.S.,
    (2003).

    neither anilir nor his collaborators, nor the low earth orbit hotel is metioned in the proccedings list.

    http://www.aiaa.org/agenda.cfm?lumeetingid=776

    but in a international academy of astrophysics 2005 (fukuoka?) student conference low earth orbit hotel has been presented by murakami and komure. http://www.iaaweb.org/iaa/Publications/fukuoka2005fp.pdf
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  3. Dear Anonymous,

    Thank you for your comment.
    Do you mean that Dr. Anilir was not among the speakers?
    Is there a conference proceedings published for the SPACEAN Workshop?

    Dear Ferayebend,

    Thanks for your help.
    Your comment is about the entry in "Conference Presentations" section (which is separate from "Publications" section.)

    It seems that not all the presentations at the conference appeared in the Proceedings. It is possible that they gave a presentation, but did not submit the proceeding or was rejected in the peer review process. In either case, listing in the "Presentations" would be legitimate (provided that they did the presentation, which we have not verified).
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  4. dear nakres,

    to comment on spacean 2003. in turkish it is called a conference and the link (http://www.tayyareci.com/makaleler/spacean.asp to be precise) is for the conference program of two days. there anilir is not mentioned, neither a talk about space economy etc.

    to comment on loe hotel presentation; i understand your point,i did not realize that the list was for presentations. however i find it highly unlikely that the link does not mention him or some presentations; since it is a very detailed time plan(it is an event agenda). the list includes the panels with their times, plus it also includes poster presentations. (or i thought so, but i need to double check i am having some technical problems now)
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  5. post scriptum: i could not reach the poster presentation. i agree with your comment that it might be an unpublished presentation.

    concerning spacean 2003, it is called international conference and fair on space technologies. my impression is that, it was a commercial gathering rather than a scientific meeting, hence i would be surprised if there is a proceeding book on it.
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  6. Dear Ferayebend,

    Thank you for your contribution.

    Concerning SPACEAN, OK, it may be an exhibition somewhat similar to ASANSOR 2005 (which looks like an exhibition for elevator industry). If there was no Proceedings, the entry in the "Publications" section should be invalid even if he gave a presentation there!

    So out of 5 "publications", there is not yet single publication actually confirmed, and 4 of them are quite likely to be non-existent. Does anybody know "Popular Science Magazine (Ankara, Turkey)"??
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  7. an interview of this funny guy:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsk_g0YEkWQ&feature=related


    and his boss seems a bigger version of him:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYInNC_N4yc&feature=related
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  8. popular science ankara is No:5 www.populerbilim.com.tr it is not a scientific journal but it is a kind of magazine related to scientific subjects. it is not a research journal. Anyone can write arrenged articles in there.It is possbile his article, but not necessarily research based, might be found there.
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  9. Is there any serious confirmed article by Dr.Anilir?
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  10. Hi,

    I can not find the publications that you listed in the pdf file, can you tell what are the page numbers so I can verify that information?
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  11. Dear Anonymous (posted November 23, 2009 12:45 AM)

    Thank you for your comment. I am sorry for not updating this entry. In fact, those problematic "publications" were removed by ISAS recently, after the problem surfaced. The removal was reported by two major newspapers in Japan. I updated this entry with a note about this, with a copy of the original publication list before the removal.

    Dear Anonymous (posted November 16, 2009 6:54 PM)

    Well, I am also curious. There are a few publications of him, in which we have not yet found any plagiarism. But we are not very sure if they are really his own work :-)

    Dear Anonymous (posted November 16, 2009 6:23 PM)

    Thank you very much for the valuable information. Does anyone know if his article is actually published there??
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  12. Nakres, you seem to me like an advocate of S.Anilir (not even a doctor, fake doctor!) or you are him!
    everything is obvious and full of shame!
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