In Shamika Ravi's "Reality Check on Suicides in India",a 2015 report for @BrookingsInst @BrookingsIndia ,here are some prima facie instances of plagiarism. It's been verified by TurnItIn and extensive reconfirmation by checking the sources. Starting with the most obvious. Read on
This passage appears to have been plagiarized from a 2003 summary of research passed off as her own. No reference provided and largely verbatim.
Original source: http://docshare02.docshare.tips/files/24180/241805849.pdf
Since pages are not numbered here, find it with keyword search for example: "evaluating".
Part two of the screenshot. Again as before,passage appears to be plagiarized from 2003 summary of research passed off as her own. No reference and largely verbatim. Original source: http://docshare02.docshare.tips/files/24180/241805849.pdf
Since pages not numbered, find with keyword search, eg:"evaluating".
This is lifted from summary of research from Gould et al (2003) and passed off as her own. Ravi refers to Gould et al earlier but not after this sentence which is largely verbatim. Makes a minor change: "shows" to "indicates".
Original source, page 1278: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/hs/medical/bioethics/nyspi/material/MediaContagionAndSuicide.pdf
This is largely verbatim from Gould et al (2003). Again Ravi refers to Gould et al in the earlier graf but not when she's quoting them.
While I've shared the most egregious ones, there are at least 3 other instances of straight lifts from other sources without attribution or quotation marks. Like this. Again this insight comes from Gould et al (2003) and not from Ravi (2015) but passed off as her own.
Here's a link to "Reality Check on Suicides" by Shamika Ravi published 2015 by @BrookingsInst @BrookingsIndia which has been checked by TurnItIn, Copyscape and my own painstaking web research. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Shamika-Paper-2.pdf
Pattern that emerges from the plagiarized IE op-ed and the two @BrookingsInst @BrookingsIndia reports by Shamika Ravi, is that there's a lot of copying and pasting with minor changes of word here or there, no quotation marks, no references and passing off others wisdom as her own
It appears @BrookingsInst @BrookingsIndia has pulled Shamika Ravi's 2015 "Reality Check on Suicides in India"(2015)as well! Remember they pulled her Financial Inclusion paper after I provided evidence of plagiarism.When will they come out with a statement? https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/shamika-paper-suicides.pdf
If you've asked yourself how does a Phd in economics suddenly become an expert on everything from suicides to epidemiology, the answer sadly appears to be: plagiarism.
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