In June of last year, Salvador Pineda received an email from a researcher at Zhejiang University in China informing him one of his articles "A robust optimization method for optimizing day-ahead operation of the electric vehicles aggregator" had been plagiarized.
Pineda, an associate professor of engineering at the University of Málaga in Spain, immediately wrote to the journal’s editor-in-chief, who said he’d retract the article. Yet the article remains intact, more than a year later, with the publisher blaming the delay on staffing changes at the journal.
"We are feeling extremely frustrated and cannot understand why it is taking so long to retract such a clear case of plagiarism," Pineda told. A week after Pineda’s email, Vladimir Terzija, editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, told Pineda and several other researchers the journal would retract three papers for plagiarizing their work.
