Background
Nijkamp, Peter was born on February 26, 1946 in Dalfsen, Netherlands.
economist university professor
Nijkamp, Peter was born on February 26, 1946 in Dalfsen, Netherlands.
Born in Dalfsen, Overijssel, Nijkamp received his Master of Science in Econometrics and Regional Economics in 1970, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Regional Economics in 1972, both from the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 2013, the Doctor of Philosophy thesis of one of his students was withdrawn one day before the scheduled defence.
He is ranked among the top 100 economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc, and is by far the most prolific economist. Towards the end of his career at the VU university Nijkamp faced accusations of (self)plagiarism and VU-appointed investigators have criticised referencing methods in some of his work. He has honorary doctorates from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the National Technical University of Athens.
lieutenant consisted almost entirely of papers jointly written with Nijkamp.
An internal investigation at the VU determined that some of these papers were recycled versions of yet earlier papers, with other co-authors, who had not been cited properly and this might be considered a form of plagiarism. The VU"s rector, Frank van der Duyn Schouten, stated that Nijkamp had acted improperly but had not committed plagiarism.
The student involved was allowed to adapt the thesis and the graduation ceremony took place in 2014. Following extensive press reports that claimed to have found cases of self-plagiarism in Nijkamp"s work and an analysis by an anonymous whistleblower, the VU announced it would investigate Nijkamp"s entire publishing record.
The investigation committee concluded in March 2015 that Nijkamp had re-used earlier publications in new papers on a certain scale, without proper referencing and the committee qualified this as "questionable research practice".
The VU accepted some, but not all, of the committee conclusions. In a separate investigation the Dutch National Board on Research Integrity found Nijkamp "careless" but not in breach of scientific integrity. lieutenant also found university regulations on self-citation insufficient at the time.
Nijkamp himself stated that the investigation committee"s methodology and selection of publications is too thin a base for any conclusions.
Academia Europaea; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.