COMMENT | With easy access to a repository of publications on the internet, academics are increasingly fabricating their research findings, misrepresenting facts, or simply appropriating others' work for their own.

This is no surprise given the imperfect record of academic integrity among universities.

This brings me to the case of two Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) academics allegedly misrepresenting the “facts” of their research on Malay maritime history.

I have not..