Earlier this year, Milen Zamfirov, dean of the faculty of educational sciences at Sofia University in Bulgaria, was named an exceptional scientist in the social sciences and humanities. As part of the accolades at the prestigious Pythagoras Science Awards from the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, Zamfirov received a commemorative plaque, diploma, and a cash prize of 8,000 BGN (US $4,300).
Now, he is accused of plagiarising past research. Their study of Milen Zamfirov and Margarita Bakracheva, titled, "In Search of Integrativity of Sciences: the Principle of Supplementarity in the Story of Pauli and Jung", was published in Bulgarian in 2021. But the paper seems to have significant overlap with other sources, according to Irene Glendinning, a researcher and consultant based in Leicester, UK.
Bakracheva told in an email that her study was a theoretical review of the "very few studies highlighting Jung-Pauli collaboration and common approach in different sciences, in this case physics and psychology". As for the text overlap and similarities between figures, Bakracheva said past literature is "correctly referenced" at the end of each paragraph.
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