Dănuț Marcu
Romanian mathematician and computer scientist
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Dănuț Marcu (born 11 January 1952) is a Romanian mathematician and computer scientist. He claimed to have authored more than 400 scientific papers.[1]
He graduated with degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Bucharest and received his Ph.D. from the same university in 1981.[1] His doctoral thesis, Algebraic and Combinatorial Methods for the Study of the Connectivity of Finite Networks, was written under the direction of Sergiu Rudeanu.[1][2]
Marcu was frequently accused of plagiarism.[3][4][5][6] The editors of Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai, Informatica decided to ban Marcu from their journal for this reason,[7] as did the editors of 4OR[8][9] and the editors of Geombinatorics.[10] The editors of Geometriae Dedicata state that they suspect Marcu of plagiarism, as he submitted a manuscript which is "more-or-less word for word the same" as a paper by Bernt Lindström.[11] Jerrold W. Grossman, Sanpei Kageyama, Martin R. Pettet, and anonymous reviewers have accused Marcu of plagiarism in MathSciNet reviews.[12] According to the managing editors of Menemui Matematik, Marcu's paper in that journal is a well known result in graph theory, and the paper "should not have been published".[13]
