Update to the Catalogue of Radiocarbon Determinations & Dendrochronology Dates
As the Research Director of the one-person Irish Radiocarbon & Dendrochronological Dates research project, I would like to announce an update to the Catalogue. Unfortunately, it isn’t an update that I’m particularly happy to have to make. There have been some recent issues with plagiarism of the Catalogue, where the work was used as a significant component by another research project, but no mention of it was made within the resulting publication. The situation so created would allow the unwary to believe that the authors of this paper carried out the gathering of Irish radiocarbon dates themselves. Only the most devoted would venture to download a zipped file of additional data, search in one of several sub-folders for a .md file to know that my work had been used. It is my intention to publish a number of blog posts in the near future detailing the background to the issue and the sluggishness of both universities and the publishing Journal in dealing with it. The respon...