The academic misconduct of Xu Juan, a teacher at the School of Architecture of Chang'an University, was notified and punished by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and then notified by the Ministry of Education as a typical case.

·It was determined that Xu had plagiarized the research content of his paper published in a certain journal, and arbitrarily marked other people's National Natural Science Foundation of China projects in the process.

Xu Juan, a teacher at the School of Architecture of Chang'an University in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, was notified by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and revoked two funding projects due to academic misconduct of plagiarizing other people's papers and marking other people's National Natural Science Foundation of China projects without authorization. After the punishment, it was notified by the Ministry of Education as a typical case: revoking his qualifications as a professor and revoking his qualifications as a graduate tutor.

On April 20, the website of the Ministry of Education published "The Ministry of Education Publicly Exposes the Twelfth Batch of 7 Typical Cases of Violating the Ten Standards of Professional Conduct for Teachers". The notice mentioned, "7. The issue of academic misconduct by Xu, a teacher at Chang'an University. In August 2022, it was determined that Xu's papers published in a journal had plagiarized research content, and in the process, he arbitrarily marked the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The behavior of the project. Xu’s behavior violated the seventh provision of the "Ten Guidelines for the Professional Conduct of College Teachers in the New Era". Guiding Opinions on the Handling of Teachers' Moral Misconduct" and other relevant regulations, gave Xu a serious warning within the party, demerits, revoked his qualifications as a professor, revoked his qualifications as a postgraduate tutor, and revoked his awards, job promotions, and professional titles within 3 years. Evaluating, declaring for talent plans, declaring for scientific research projects and other aspects of qualifications. Conduct admonishing talks with the main party and government leaders of the colleges where they are located, and order them to conduct a review.”

More than three months ago, on January 6, 2023, the official website of the National Natural Science Foundation of China announced the "Notice on the Handling Results of Misconduct Cases Investigated in 2022 (Fourth Batch)". The notice mentioned that after investigation, Xu Juan's previous paper "Spatial optimization mode of China's rural settlements based on quality-of-life theory" (Spatial optimization mode of China's rural settlements based on quality-of-life theory) had plagiarized other people's papers Xu Juan, the first author and corresponding author, should be responsible for the above-mentioned problems.

In addition, Xu Juan included the paper in her application for a fund project (approval number 51978058), and she should also be responsible for the objective result of false information in the application for a fund project.

After deliberation at the 15th meeting of the 5th Supervision Committee of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the approval of the 15th executive meeting of the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2022, it was decided to follow the 40th "Measures for Investigation and Handling of Misconduct in Scientific Research of National Natural Science Foundation of China Projects" Article 6, item 6 of Article 43, revoked Xu Juan's National Natural Science Foundation of China project "Research on Climate Adaptation Mechanism and Low Energy Consumption Construction Mode of Residential Houses in Qinba Mountain Area" (Approval No. 51978058), "Planning and Construction Strategy of Villages and Towns in Qinba Mountain Area "Research" (approval number 51308048), recover the allocated funds for the above two projects, cancel Xu Juan's National Natural Science Foundation of China project application and participation in the application qualification for 3 years (October 9, 2022 to October 8, 2025), Give Xu Juan a notice of criticism.

After investigation, the paper had problems of plagiarizing other people's papers and marking other people's National Natural Science Foundation projects without authorization. The first author and corresponding author Xu Juan should be responsible for the above problems.

According to the paper involved, the paper was published online on November 28, 2018 in the international academic journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research (Environmental Science and Pollution Research), and the paper has not yet been withdrawn. Xu Juan is the first author and corresponding author of the paper, and her signature work unit is the School of Architecture of Chang'an University.

According to the official website of Chang'an University, Chang'an University is directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the first batch of national "211 Project" key construction universities, national "985 Advantageous Discipline Innovation Platform" construction universities, and national "Double First-Class" construction universities.