HOW TO WRITE AND NOT TO WRITE A SCIENTIFIC PAPER
(With a guide to Ethics)
Purnendu Dasgupta, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
As an editor of Analytica Chimica Acta for many years and also having served on the editorial advisory boards of Talanta, Atmospheric Environment, Environmental Science and Technology, Analytical Chemistry, etc. and having authored over 400 papers himself, Professor Dasgupta is familiar with scientific writing; indeed, writing itself, as he really wanted to be a poet rather than a scientist. He has also the dubious distinction of uncovering the most extensive case of scientific fraud ever reported – the saga of Pattium Chiranjeevi that was covered in Science, Chemical Engineering & News and many other venues.
This talk, a result of collaboration between he and Gary Christian, longtime Editorof Talanta and his virtual mentor, talks about Do’s and Don’ts and various case studies…
Professor Dasgupta was at Texas Tech University for 25 years and held the Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professorship for more than a decade. In 2007 he joined the University of Texas at Arlington as the Jenkins Garrett Chair and Department Chairman. As of 2011, he thankfully no longer has the responsibility of a Department head. He is the recipient of the American Chemical Society award in Chromatography, the Dal Nogare Award in Chromatography (see www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGE3KgiIcyQ ), Traylor creativity award from Dow Chemical, the Benedetti-Pichler award from the American Microhemical Society, the Scientist of the Year award of the ARCS Foundation and a two-time recipient of the international outstanding achievement award in ion chromatography. His research interests are in Measurement of Trace Atmospheric Species and Atmospheric Chemistry, Air Pollution Toxicology, Automated Intelligent Analyzers, Microfabricated Sensors and Instrumentation, Thin Film Flow Devices and Sensors, Automated Process Analyzers for the Chemical Industry, Novel Approaches to Ionic Analysis and most recently, Breath Analysis for Clinical Diagnostics and Perchlorate in the Environment.
