University punishes professor and daughter for academic misconduct

Liu Mouhua (not his real name), deputy dean of Chongqing University Graduate School, was issued a serious warning by the Communist Party of China and removed from his post for using his research to help his daughter, according to the university's notice issued on Saturday.

The national scholarship as well as other honors and awards given to the daughter Liu Mouqiao (not her real name), will be revoked in accordance with relevant procedures.

The daughter is an undergraduate at the university and has published 14 high-quality SCI (Science Citation Index) papers and won three national invention patents. SCI papers are published in journals included in SCI.

Recently, her unusually outstanding academic performance caught public attention after she became one of 100 representatives of the national scholarship winners.

On Thursday, the university set up an investigation team to look into this case and it discovered that Liu Mouqiao is the daughter of Liu Mouhua, deputy dean of the graduate school. Liu Mouhua arranged for his daughter to participate in his research work and co-authored his papers and patents, which constitutes academic misconduct due to improper authorship of papers and patents.

In addition, there are also issues of academic rigor such as incorrect image uploads in Liu Mouhua's papers.

The notice said the university will draw lessons from it and continue to strengthen the long-term construction of academic ethics, as well as resolutely maintain a clean and healthy educational environment.