Dănuț Marcu (born 11 January 1952) is a Romanian mathematician and computer scientist, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Bucharest in 1981. He claimed to have authored more than 400 scientific papers.[1]
Marcu was frequently accused of plagiarism.[2] [3] [4] The editors of Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai, Informatica decided to ban Marcu from their journal for this reason, as did the editors of 4OR[5] [6] and the editors of Geombinatorics.[7] The editors of Geometriae Dedicata state that they suspect Marcu of plagiarism, as he submitted a manuscript which is "more-or-less word for word the same" as a paper by Bernt Lindström.[8] Jerrold W. Grossman, Sanpei Kageyama, Martin R. Pettet, and anonymous reviewers have accused Marcu of plagiarism in MathSciNet reviews.[9] According to the managing editors of Menemui Matematik, Marcu's paper in that journal is a well known result in graph theory, and the paper "should not have been published".