Elias Alsabti is an Iraqi medical researcher who has been exposed for scientific fraud. Scientific misconduct is the violation of the standard codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behavior in professional scientific research. ...

Alsabti built a career as an impostor. In Iraq, the medical student managed to get a reputation as a cancer researcher. He reworked articles from lesser known scientific journals into entries that he submitted for publication elsewhere. By pretending to be a member of the Jordanian royal family, he obtained a generous scholarship by the Jordanian government and in 1977 moved to the United States. In the late 1970s, he worked as a cancer specialist for various American research institutions, moving on when his utter lack of knowledge and understanding was noticed. He is estimated to have published 50 to 60 plagiarized articles in a few years, many of them in reputable journals, often with co-authors who have never published with anyone but him, which led to the suspicion that they may not exist. An impostor (or imposter, a common variant) is a person who pretends to be somebody else. ... Cancer research is the intense scientific effort to understand the development of cancer and identify potential therapies. ... A cover of the leading scientific journal Nature In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ...

Several journals retracted publications after the fraud was exposed. Alsabti's license to practice medicine in Massachusetts was revoked in 1988. State nickname: Bay State Other U.S. States Capital Boston Largest city Boston Governor Mitt Romney (R) Official languages English Area 27,360 km² (44th)  - Land 20,317 km²  - Water 7,043 km² (25. ...

External resource

• William J. Broad (1980). Would-Be Academician Pirates Papers: Five of his published papers are demonstrable plagiarisms, and more than 55 others are suspect. Science 208: 1438–1440.

External link

• "Deutschlandfunk: Wahrheitssucher auf Abwegen". Deutschlandfunk: Mogelnde Forscher und ihre Motive (German). URL accessed on July 28, 2005.