Integrity Assessment: "Integration and Innovation: Constructing the Discourse System of Sports Culture Communication for the Belt and Road" by Cheng Xuefeng et al.

Academic fraud report · Geng Detector

Summary

Verdict: Cleared. This report evaluates a 2020 theoretical humanities/social sciences article published in the Journal of Shandong Sport University (DOI: 10.14104/j.cnki.1006-2076.2020.04.006) by Cheng Xuefeng, Svetlana Tamara Alekseevna, and Jiang Li. No indicators of academic misconduct were identified. The paper is a qualitative, theory-building essay on Belt-and-Road sports-culture discourse; it contains no experimental figures, tables, numerical datasets, p-values, or statistical analyses, so image-manipulation, data-fabrication, and statistical-anomaly checks are not applicable. Authorship metadata, funding codes (18CSJJ19, 19FTYB013), and the submission-to-publication timeline (received 2020-05-21, published August 2020) are internally consistent, and cited references (1998-2017) match the expected scholarly scope. Confidence is moderate-to-high for the dimensions tested; limitations include that text-similarity (CNKI overlap) and self-plagiarism screening were not performed.

Verdict

Cleared. No evidence of image reuse, data fabrication, image splicing, statistical anomaly, timeline inconsistency, or problematic citation practice was detected within the scope of this review.

Key findings

The paper is a purely theoretical social-science essay; standard image, data, and statistical forensics do not apply.
No experimental figures (Western blots, gels, microscopy) are present, ruling out pixel-level duplication or Photoshop splicing.
No quantitative data (means, SDs, p-values, n-values) are reported, ruling out numeric-fabrication and statistical-inconsistency tests.
Timeline is internally consistent: received 2020-05-21; published August 2020, Vol. 36, No. 4; funding codes 18CSJJ19 (2018) and 19FTYB013 (2019) align with stated project years.
Reference list spans 1998-2017, appropriate for a 2020 publication; references to NHL, KHL, films "Shaolin Temple," "Kung Fu Panda," and "Miracle" are chronologically appropriate.
12 references include academic journals (e.g., 体育学刊, 中国广播电视学刊) and web sources, consistent with the genre of macro-level strategic communication research.

Evidence highlights

DOI: 10.14104/j.cnki.1006-2076.2020.04.006 preserved exactly.
Funding codes 18CSJJ19 and 19FTYB013 verified to match 2018 and 2019 project years.
Submission date 2020-05-21 documented in original article header.
No figures, tables of numerical data, or statistical tests found in the source PDF.

Notes

Limitations: text-similarity (CNKI duplicate-detection) and self-plagiarism / multiple-submission checks against the author's other works were not performed and are recommended for deeper review.
For humanities/theoretical articles, misconduct risks typically involve text recycling and weak argumentation rather than figure or statistical fraud; these dimensions require dedicated tools (e.g., CNKI, CrossCheck) not applied here.
The reviewer's stylistic commentary is informal; the underlying assessment itself remains that no misconduct indicators were identified in the tested dimensions.