Is It Legal to Buy a Thesis?

After more than three years of research on the subject, associate professor Shen Yang of Wuhan University and his team have revealed that China's trading thesis has formed an industry, with a scale of 1 billion yuan in 2009. Using anti-plagiarism software to query, in the sample data of 2007, 72% of the articles were plagiarized in full text, 24% of the articles were partially plagiarized, and only 4% of the articles were not plagiarized.

Paper sales

We do nt know whether we can check the scale of the thesis in private.

The number of dissertations in national academic journals can only publish 2.48 million papers a year, while the number of people who carry thesis publication index reaches 11.8 million. Shen Yang, an associate professor at the School of Information Management of Wuhan University, disclosed to this newspaper yesterday that

Many authors of paper sales come from key points

As a concept of economics, the thesis of "paper sale" refers to all kinds of people who have direct contact with various manufacturers who provide material products, means of circulation, service labor, etc., employing more than 80 gunmen, and annual profits of millions of yuan. It was found that the sale of theses is indeed "industrialized".

In January 2010, Shenyang, an associate professor at Wuhan University, disclosed that the scale of the "industry" of Chinese papers in 2007 was about 180 million yuan; by 2009, the sales volume of papers was nearly 1 billion yuan, an expansion of 5.5 times.

Using anti-plagiarism software query, in the sample data of 2007, 72% of the articles were plagiarized in full text, 24% of the articles were partially plagiarized, and only 4% of the articles were not plagiarized.

On June 2, 2008, there were more than 35,000 searches on the Internet for the Chinese keyword "writing a dissertation" alone.

"There will only be more, not less." For example, an editor of a periodical magazine, who asked not to be named, said that when the next 12 magazines per year, its annual income will not depend on these 12 issues, there will be many supplements, and teachers. Special issues that will be published on festivals, children's day, and national day can all generate income. "How many issues are published in a year, only the company knows."

The current academic evaluation and incentive mechanism is usually based on the number of papers and works. So through quantification, complex academic evaluation becomes simple and quick.

In the early stage of the implementation of this evaluation system, university teachers' enthusiasm for scientific research was stimulated. However, when academics are directly linked to the value and income of scholars, and academic evaluation becomes the main basis for the social status of universities and the adjustment of internal interest relations, the utilitarian and short-sightedness of academic evaluation Sex and various biases have arisen accordingly, causing many academic studies to ignore quality and one-sided pursuit of quantity and speed.

More importantly, this mechanism ignores the status quo of "more monks and less porridges" in China's current papers. According to the data provided by Associate Professor Shenyang, there are 9,468 types of general journals, core journals, and authoritative journals in China. National academic journals can only publish 2.48 million papers a year, but there are about 1 million college teachers and 1 million students in the country each year. Master and doctoral students, more than 300,000 scientific researchers, and more than 5 million engineering and technical personnel, especially state-owned enterprise engineering and technical personnel, 700,000 agricultural and technical personnel, and 3.6 million health industry technical personnel, totaling more than 11.8 million people, all have papers. Posting requirements.

Excluding some people who do not have to publish papers every year, millions of people still need publishing every year. Among these millions of people, a considerable proportion of them are forced to graduate and the title evaluation period is approaching, choosing to turn to the thesis trading market and illegal academic journals.

An inadequate academic evaluation system not only finds a shortcut for academic misconduct, it even plays a role of bad money expelling good money the truly level papers are difficult to publish and are buried. Scholars gradually "eliminate" real talents who are stricter than self-discipline. Some people worry that the vicious circle of "changing with me and dying against me" will cause the entire academic community to collapse.

Facing the "fallen" style of study, the relevant departments tried to curb the evil spirit by implementing anti-piracy software. This does play a role in curbing plagiarism to a certain extent, but it is worth noting that this measure has spurred buyers to start looking for intermediaries for papers or directly contact the "gunners" to buy papers. In addition, the convenient services provided by the thesis writing market, as well as ensuring quality and originality, have contributed to the activeness of the thesis trading market in 2009.

Also boosting the thesis trading market is the talent training mechanism of "wide in and wide out." Unlike universities in developed countries such as the United States, which require graduates to graduate within six years, Chinese masters and doctors usually graduate in about three years, and if you meet the required publication criteria and complete your graduation thesis, even if you do nt have a book After reading, you can also graduate. However, strict publication requirements require them to do everything possible to publish their papers, which has led to the generation of "relationship papers" and "money papers" (by paying a high price to purchase the right to publish papers-editor's note).