Re: Misconduct

2024-01-13 Thread Luca Lutterotti
You are both true in a certain sense. It is true that this is not the core of the Rietveld refinement per se, but we don’t have an “official” term to call a refinement of a powder pattern using crystallographic parameters. Hence I tried to call it Rietveld-like or extended Rietveld. The alternat

Re: Misconduct

2024-01-13 Thread Alan W Hewat
I sympathise with Luca. There is no generally accepted name for this kind of profile refinement, as there is for Pawley or Le Bail refinement, terms that are well understood. I would simply call it *Profile Refinement*, as Rietveld did, specifying *Quantitative Phase Analysis* where that is appropr

Re: Misconduct

2024-01-13 Thread Le Bail Armel
Good new from PubPeer:Virgil OptasanuHi. I am one of the co-authors. Thanks for these warnings. It does indeed appear that there are problems with this image with an intention to manipulate data. Whatever the reason for this manipulation, it is completely unacceptable. I will investigate to find