An obituary of the writer Leonard Michaels last Tuesday omitted attribution for a two-paragraph passage describing his male-consciousness-raising novel, "The Men's Club" (Farrar, Straus, 1981).
The attribution was in the previous paragraph – to an unnamed law enforcement official.
This article was amended on 27 May 2014 to correct the attribution of a quote in the opening paragraph.
Maureen Dowd, another star columnist, was roughed up on the Internet for using a paragraph from a blogger without attribution.
(In paragraphs 7 and 8, corrects attribution of quotes to "former model and fashion writer Jenna Sauers" instead of "Susan Scafidi, director of the Fashion Law Institute at New York's Fordham University").
– The matter of attribution, as raised in the second to last paragraph, is a much broader science that merely determining the change in probability due to greenhouse-gas forcing….which is an inherently difficult and uncertain undertaking.
At 4.50pm on Tuesday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a special edition led by a 10-paragraph, 365-word story with no attribution that stated Jewell was the "focus of a federal investigation".
Links and/or attribution to the original were placed "three or four paragraphs in".
As ScienceInsider reported on Thursday, the journal's editor, Graham Parker, retracted the paper on 21 July after it was discovered that several paragraphs in the introduction had been copied, without attribution, from a 2007 review article.
Graham Parker, editor-in-chief of Stem Cells and Development, told ScienceInsider that he received an email on 10 July from the editors of another journal, Biology of Reproduction, claiming that two paragraphs from Nayernia paper's introduction were copied without attribution from a 2007 review article by Makoto Nagano of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, that was published in their journal.
