Majority report Pál Schmitt academic misconduct controversy

1 majority report

1.1 procedure
1.2 thesis
1.3 conclusion

majority report

the committee released 3-page summary of 1,100-page report public on 28 march. report states 197 pages in question indeed verbatim copies of georgiev s , heinemann s respective works. however, report states lack of citations , references formal mistakes should have been addressed supervisors, who, failing so, have led schmitt believe thesis met requirements. semmelweis university, citing privacy reasons, has not made majority report public. heti világgazdaság filed complaint university s argument hungarian national authority data protection , freedom of information. summary, after establishing legal context awarding dr. univ. title @ university of physical education, has following sections.

procedure

the report notes conspicuously (although not against regulations), defense took place barely month after registration. missing documents, however, imply formal irregularities. namely, thesis proposal, report on comprehensive examination, , minutes of thesis committee not found. report faults thesis advisor , examiners not alerting candidate inappropriate or absent citations, largely typical of thesis. further procedural errors implied lack of proper bibliography (5 out of 21 cited references not identified; out of 23 self-citations, 10 not found, , 3 cited wrongly).

thesis

the report asserts author did not indicate sources anywhere in thesis. text uses neither quotation marks, nor author names in parentheses, nor footnotes, nor endnotes. committee notes thesis not contain acknowledgments of support collaborators. report notes in particular textual identities klaus heinemann s work, figures , tables copied (with occasional minor modifications) nikolay georgiev s manuscript, , further 180 text pages partially matching same work.

conclusion

the report draws conclusion thesis procedure was, notwithstanding procedural shortcomings, in accordance practices of university of physical education @ time.

the thesis based on word-by-word translation of unusually large extent, should have been detected @ defense. report faults university of physical education leading author believe thesis met requirements.