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[hegemony]

Sagit, I didn't realize this was social science.  I thought it was a matter of the researcher collecting the students' ideas and trying to pass them off as his own.  I see it's a different matter.

[msparticularity]

Sagit, I didn't realize this was social science.  I thought it was a matter of the researcher collecting the students' ideas and trying to pass them off as his own.  I see it's a different matter.

Well, it might or might not be. The point is that the OP seems to have no idea, either.

[libwitch]

I have seen it more then once - when professors do use students ideas as their own as criticism of works ( - and in some cases students have pointed this out and have had their claims dismissed because they are "only undergraduates" and/or "its unpublished work").

I have also seen where professors will use the research that students do in class as basis for their own writing - which is appalling because it I seen it both uncredited (another words, flat out plagiarized) and as far as research goes, badly done.   

Its sort of obvious when you have a student come in for help with the research - and the professor come in with their manuscript that contains the same research and text  but claims that in their note taking, they lost track of the original sources.

Bad professors are out there, just as bad students are.

[username2]

^ In the issues of poorly done research, the result it it's own punishment.

OP, you could worry about this, but you should be happy to know that many of us call these research issues to task when doing peer review.

[tinyzombie]

You're clearly not a very good proto-spammer, if you can't even be bothered to give the book's title.