The Genius

An academic staff who passed PhD in 2013 has published almost 200 ISI papers since then. We call this person 'The Genius'.

Current and former students said he charge people a few thousand ringgit to co-author with him. Payment is not via a third party.

A few academic staff voiced their doubt about his amazing achievement to faculty management but ignored because he contribute a lot to achieve faculty publication KPI. They were accused of professional jealousy.

Here are three papers he published:
Paper 1: Support vector regressio nmethodology for wind turbine reaction torque prediction with power-split hydrostatic continuous variable transmission
Paper 2: Wind turbine power coefficient estimation by soft computing methodologies: Comparative study
Paper 3: Survey of the most influential parameters on the wind farm net present value (NPV) by adaptiveneuro-fuzzy approach

When we checked at TurnItIn, we found high similarity index for this papers.

TurnItIn Report Paper 1: Originality Report | All Source
TurnItIn Report Paper 2: Originality Report | All Source
TurnItIn Report Paper 3: Originality Report | All Source

HIR grant number is mentioned in 'Acknowledgement'. Strange because don't think the HIR grant is for wind turbine project. Do they do this to fulfil grant publication requirement?

Another paper by The Genius & Co was retracted by editor because high similarity index (73%).
Paper | Originality Report

Pay-to-publish is widespread that there are young lecturers who said, "Tak bayar, tak naik pangkatlah."

One of The Genius co-author (and member of faculty management) said this to young lecturers: "Apply for grant. If you can not publish, pay someone to take care of the publication. UM doesn't care how you do it. They only want the numbers."

Do you think this is acceptable and ethical?