During Lin Zhijian's participation in the results of the 2018 Taiwanese magistrate, some netizens discussed his master's degree from Zhonghua University, but it did not arouse many echoes.

[17] During the 2020 Taiwanese presidential election, Hsu Yung-ming, the Legislative Yuan of the New Power Party, once accused Lin Zhijian of plagiarism for his master's thesis at China University.

[18] On July 5, 2022, Taipei City Councilor Wang Hongwei, a member of the Kuomintang, held a press conference to accuse Lin Zhijian of plagiarism in his master's thesis at Chung Hua University[19][20] She accused Lin Zhijian of copying the 2007 Hsinchu Science Park commissioned Chung Hua University to handle the research bidding case "evaluating the public satisfaction of Hsinchu Science Park in TCSI mode" final report "evaluating the surrounding resident satisfaction of Hsinchu Science Industrial Park in TCSI mode" (signed by Li Youzheng and Wang Minglang).

[21] Wang Hongwei hoped that Chung Hua University would properly investigate and suggested that Lin Zhijian volunteer to "return" his degree.

She received a whistle-blower complaint showing that at an international symposium held in Beijing in October 2008, Wang Minglang and two other graduate students, surnamed Wang and surnamed Zhong, published an English paper titled "Applying the TCSI model to evaluate the stakeholder's satisfaction nearby Hsinchu Science Industrial Park (Chinese Translation: Using the TCSI model to evaluate the satisfaction of interested people near Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park)."

Lin Zhijian responded that he participated in the bamboo science-commissioned research and also published a seminar paper with the same name as He Lixing and Wang Minglang.

[25] On July 24, Lin Zhijian and lawmaker Cheng Yun-peng held a press conference, expressing in chronological order that his copyright ownership of the master's degree at the Discipline Management Institute of China is also his research process.

[29][30] In early October, Lin filed a lawsuit with the Ministry of Education over the administrative action of Chung Hua University to revoke his degree.

1110094222, believing that Chung Hua University was punished in accordance with the regulations and the cancellation of Lin Zhijian's master's degree was not wrong.

[31] Lin Zhijian also apologized on his personal Facebook fan page on February 14, 2023, for revoking the punishment of Zhonghua University, respecting the resolution of the Litigation Review Committee of the Ministry of Education, and not filing an administrative lawsuit.

[39] National Taiwan University announced on July 6, 2022, that from that day, all master and doctoral students must use the original comparison of text similarity before leaving the.

[41] His paper was publicly accused of plagiarism by many people, and the first whistleblower, Wang Hongwei, from the KMT, became a hot topic in the election campaign after Lin Zhijian announced his candidacy.

The post-election official review report submitted by the DPP pointed out that after the outbreak of Lin Zhijian's paper plagiarism incident, the failure to timely and properly handle it caused public dissatisfaction.