Documenting plagiarism in a bee taxonomy paper

And what happened when I alerted the journal

Zach Portman
14 min readMar 21

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In November 2020, a correction was quietly published for a paper in the Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification. It corrected a paper originally published back in 2011, “Leafcutter and Mason Bees of the Genus Megachile Latreille (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in Canada and Alaska” by Cory Sheffield, Claudia Ratti, Laurence Packer, and Terry Griswold (full transparency, Terry Griswold was my PhD adviser at Utah State University from 2011–2017). The text of the correction…

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Zach Portman

I am scientist who studies bees. My research covers the identification, biology, evolution, and conservation of native bees.