orcid.org/0000-0001-5577-9347Pseudo Educationists & Researchers
Educationists and researcher from the universities always strive to publish quality and original in specialized referee journals. These journals neither pay to researchers nor charge any money from them. The purpose of publishing is to share knowledge, which in return enhances educationists’ stature in their respective fields. Once a research is published, it cannot be published in any other journals. Plagiarism and publishing others’ research work is considered a crime and if someone is guilty of such a crime his/her degrees can be conceled. Unfortunately, corruption in Pakistan is everywhere and education is no exception to it. Recently, this author found that 8 of Pakistani Pseudo Educationists have committed this crime and published the same article from their own names in two different journals, which are not high quality journals, indeed.
The first lot of Pseudo educationists and researchers includes Syed Abir Hassan Naqvi, Dr.Muhammad Aamir Hashmi Assistant Professor, Dr.Shaoukat Ali Raza , Dr. Ashi Zeeshan, who are working at IER, University of the Punjab-Lahore, Pakistan, and Faiz.M.Shaikh who is Assistant Professor at SZABAC-Dokri Larkana, Sindh,Pakistan. They have published the article under the title, “Impact of supportive leadership and organizational learning culture as a moderator on the relationship of psychological empowerment and organizational commitment” in the Australian Journal of Business and Management Research Vol.1 No.8 [65-71] in November 2011. Interestingly, this journal charges money from the author(s) which is quite unusual for any decent journal. It is stated on their website that the authors must pay 150 USD (Excluding all financial intermediary charges). They have not given any physical address to confirm whether they are operating from Australia or any other country. Most of the editorial board members are from developing countries, which are Fiji, Malaysia, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, India, Serbia, Mexico, Turkey and Pakistan. Two other members are from Canada and Spain. This author tried to find some of the members from the mentioned universities but could not. An email was sent to the journal to collect further information but no response was received.
The other two authors Muhammad Akram Chaudhry, Student of MS, Iqra University, Islamabad and Dr. Naimatullah Shah, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, University of Sind, Jamshoro published the same article in the journal of Business Strategies, 5(1) in 2011. Greenwich University, Karachi is behind this publication. The standard of the journal can be assessed by a simple fact that it did not bother even to check the poor language of the article.
Unfortunately, both generals are currently accessible from the popular databases. While searching I got the following information from the Ebsco database:
1) Impact of supportive leadership and organizational learning cultures as a moderator of the relationship of psychological empowerment and organizational commitment. Detail Only Available By: Naqvi, Syed Abir Hassan; Hashmi, Muhammad Aamir; Raza, Shaoukat Ali; Zeeshan, Ashi; Shaikh, Faiz.M. Australian Journal of Business & Management Research. Nov2011, Vol. 1 Issue 8, p65-71. 7p. Subjects: LEADERSHIP; ORGANIZATIONAL learning; EMPLOYEE empowerment; ORGANIZATIONAL commitment; EMPLOYEE loyaltyDatabase: Business Source Elite Add to folder ..
2) Impact of Supportive Leadership and Organizational Learning Culture as A Moderator on The Relationship of Psychological Empowerment and Organizational Commitment. Detail Only Available By: Chaudhry, Muhammad Akram; Shah, Naimatullah. Journal of Business Strategies (1993-5765). Jun2011, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p39-50. 12p. Subjects: LEADERSHIP; ORGANIZATIONAL learning; CORPORATE culture; ORGANIZATIONAL commitment; EMPLOYEE motivation; GLOBALIZATION Database: Business Source Elite
Both the journals have been reported to the databases and hopefully they will not be accessible in the future. The matter was also reported to the Punjab University Vice Chancellor Dr. Mujahid Kamran through email and no comments were received from his office either. The authors of the article were contacted through email, which were mentioned on the official websites of the universities or on the article, for their comments but no one responded so far. However, revisiting the Punjab University shows that 3 of the faculty members removed their photographs from the University’s website.
It is not clear that who copied who but still none of them is innocent due to the following reasons:
1) Syed Abir Hassan Naqvi, Dr.Muhammad Aamir Hashmi Assistant Professor, Dr.Shaoukat Ali Raza published article in the paid journal, which is by no means acceptable for those who have completed Master and PhDs from the recognized universities. The other group was well aware of the standard of the journal but still they chose the journal. Of course they knew that this poor research will not be accepted in any decent journal.
2) The contents and language of the article are poor. The quality of the article is equivalent to a Bachelor level essay. Ironically, eight people claim they worked in two different groups to produce the poor academic work.
3) The situation is so poor that they could easily be charged for plagiarism.
These pseudo educationists and researchers have not served the interests of the academia and institutions rather they become a source of embarrassment for their respective institutions and Pakistan.
Nadeem Yousaf
4 April 2013
Dear Nadeem Yousaf sb
assolomo Alaikum, I asked you about your phone number, please provide me to talk and stop media trial against me , with out knowing the reality, its against ethics
Muhammad Aamir Hashmi PhD
Post Doc (U of M USA)
Visiting Professor University of Ahrus Denmark
Note: I copied the email as it is that I received from Dr. Aamir.
Dear Dr. Aamir
If you are referring to my article on this website, the journals have been cited with complete details. It is not an accusation or media trail but a fact. Read your own articles which is full grammatical errors and the overall quality is quite low, which cannot be accepted in any decent journal. Both are commercial journals and reported to the concerned databases.
If you have something to say, which is not a fact, you are welcome to add your comments on the website. Since I don’t have your whereabouts, I regret to share my phone number. You can share what you wish to say by email in writing or through comments.
By the way, I have not found your name in the list of the Åhrus University as visiting professor. I have sent email to the university about your claim. I don’t understand ‘U of M, USA’ that you have referred as the university for the PostDoc position.
Dear and Respected Nadeem Yousaf
Thanks for your mail.
1. U of M means , University of Minnesota USA
the first thing, that article is not mine and I never claim and mentioned in my CV, Syed Abir hassan Naqvi and Dr Ashi are my students. During their study, they wrote that article, I did not ask them to write my name, being a student they write my name.
You submitted the complaint to VC and we have submitted all the facts and journal of Greenwhich is actually at fault and they committed their fault and all of us were not found guilty. The work was done during M Phil study and I know , its not quality work. let me clear whats your objective to do media trial of us. On your profile, I feel you a reasonable person but your language and actions dont match with your personality.
let me clear whats your hidden objective, I can not share you all facts submitted to the commettee. Its not necessary to send you the copy in which capacity I am working with University of Ahrus Denmark
Regards
Muhammad Aamir Hashmi PhD
Note: I copied the reply here as it is.
Dear Dr. Aamir
1) Whether or not you have added your article in your CV is meaningless and will not change the fact that your name is mentioned in the published article. You mentioned that students added your name in the article without permission is escaping from the responsibility.
2) You admitted that the ‘poor quality article’ is based upon your Mphil work so how come your students could use it? (Although it raises many other questions but I don’ wish to divert the discussion). How could you give your Mphil work to your students? Moreover, you shifted the blame to Greenwich as it was their fault and you and your colleagues were innocent. No academic will hardly buy your argument. All writers have to submit a consent form to decent journals before they publish it. It is strange that you do not know about this especially when you claim that you have been associated and you are associated with well established universities
3) It is the responsibility of your VC to reveal the facts if any inquiry was conducted. If you and your VC cannot share the facts then whatever your VC or you say are merely claims against the facts as shown on the website. If you have any genuine claim, you are still welcome to add them in the comments section. If not the best is to apologize for your conduct instead of arguing.
4) You don’t need to send me a copy of in which capacity you are associated with the Århus University. Mind it, it is not Pakistan that they will hide to reveal such information. As I mentioned earlier, I did not find your name as a visiting faculty member.
5) This a so poor and meaningless sentence “let me clear what your hidden objective, I cannot share you all facts submitted to the committee”, which is quite unacceptable from a person who claims to be a PhD. By the way, I don’t know you in person in any capacity except through the article under discussion. Of course, I have set-up my website with an agenda to promote change and to reveal pseudo-intellectuals in Pakistan.
Best,
Nadeem Yousaf.
The Following email has been sent to the VC of the Punjab University, Pakistan. His reply will be added when he responds (Which I’m not expecting because he never responded to my emails).
Dear Dr. Mujahid
Your faculty member, Dr. Muhammad Aamir Hashmi, claims that the University held inquiry regarding the plagiarized article, which was reported to you. If this is true, I would request you to share the outcomes of the inquiry indicated who were in the committee and what were the grounds to acquit them?
You have already included in CC while communicating with Dr. Aamir. If you still wish to recall the case, visit here http://nyousaf.com/organization/educational/pseudo-researchers/
I’m glad to tell you that both journals have been removed from the database.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Best Regards
Nadeem Yousaf
I requested to remove the journals from the EBSCO’s database through the incharge of NB Liberary and glad to know that both the journals in questions have been removed. I got the following message from the database
“Hi Stine,
Good Morning. I hope you are doing well.
I would like to update you on your requests to remove the following below two journal from our database Business Source Elite.
1) Journal of Business Strategies (1993-5765)
2) Australian Journal of Business & Management Research
The appropriate department has removed the requested two journal from our database due to plagiarized content. Please check the same at your end.
If you have any questions please let me know.
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