'A moral issue to correct': the long tail of Elena Ceaușescu's fraudulent scientific work

Nicolae Ceaușescu's Romanian communist regime hailed his wife as an eminent chemistry researcher, though she had no genuine qualifications. But her name lives on in academic journals, and British institutions have yet to retract honours bestowed on her Romanian researchers have called on academic publishers to remove Elena Ceaușescu's name from almost two dozen scientific papers and books fraudulently published as her work, more than 30 years after the wife of the former communist dictator Nic...