An assistant professor of finance from the Singapore Management University (SMU) was discovered to have provided false academic claims resulting in her employment with the university to be ceased with effect from May 1, 2022.
However, it is not clear if Margaret Zhu was fired or had resigned.
The Business Times broke the news of Zhu's departure.
An SMU spokesperson said on May 6 in response to media queries that it is reviewing its vetting procedures on academic writing.
The spokesperson said: "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."
Zhu's profile on the SMU website was no longer up as of May 6.
SMU added: "SMU will review our vetting procedures on academic writing and address any gaps to prevent such incidents from recurring."
Zhu had allegedly lied about receiving conditional acceptances for two papers from the Journal of Finance and Review of Financial Studies.
The two papers are respectively titled, "Real Effects of Corporate Hedging", and "Corporate Derivatives Hedging in the Past Two Decades".
A blogger, Christopher Brunet, dug into issue and sent emails to the two journals to check if Zhu's papers had indeed received conditional acceptances.
He was prompted to send his queries after a tip-off about Zhu's alleged falsified claims surfaced in a thread on Economics Job Market Rumours, according to BT.
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