SINGAPORE — Singapore Management University (SMU) is reviewing its vetting procedures on academic writing after an assistant professor of finance was found to have falsified academic claims.
According to an SMU spokesperson on Friday (May 6), Ms Margaret Zhu's employment with the university ceased with effect from May 1.
"The university had sought to validate some concerns we had in this particular case and we concluded that some of the individual’s academic claims were not accurate," said the spokesperson.
The university did not say if Ms Zhu had resigned or was fired.
When TODAY tried to view Ms Zhu's academic profile on Friday, the page was unable to load.
Ms Zhu's departure from SMU was first reported by The Business Times on Friday.
She had allegedly lied about receiving conditional acceptances for two papers, titled "Real Effects of Corporate Hedging" and "Corporate Derivatives Hedging in the Past Two Decades", from the Journal of Finance and Review of Financial Studies respectively.
However, emails between blogger Christopher Brunet and the two publications revealed that Ms Zhu's papers had not been accepted by either.
Mr Brunet had first brought to light Ms Zhu's falsified claims after a tip-off from a thread on Economics Job Market Rumours, according to The Business Times.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where Ms Zhu was previously employed, has also removed mentions of the two publications she previously claimed to have been conditionally accepted.
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