diff --git a/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-extended/tika-parser-scientific-module/pom.xml b/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-extended/tika-parser-scientific-module/pom.xml
index ca990cbd23..28b4c26c55 100644
--- a/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-extended/tika-parser-scientific-module/pom.xml
+++ b/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-extended/tika-parser-scientific-module/pom.xml
@@ -112,7 +112,6 @@ May the gods of dependency management fix this in the future.
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
         <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>${rat.version}</version>
         <configuration>
           <excludes>
             <exclude>src/test/resources/test-documents/**</exclude>