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Self-plagiarism and suspected salami publishing
…punish the authors. The Forum advised that it is up to journal B to retract the paper for redundant publication or salami publishing because journal A published the article first. Hence it is journal B’s responsibility here to address the misconduct. The editor should contact journal B and inform them of the issue. Is it possible that the authors were inexperienced and did not think their paper… - Case
Unethical withdrawal of a paper
…note is shown below: “I have a problem with this paper. I presented an earlier version of it at the xxxx conference in xxxx this xxxx. Each year the Editor B’s Journal xxxx runs a special edition based on xxx and our paper has been short listed from the papers presented at this year’s conference. So unfortunately I am going to have to withdraw it from your journal. However, this is part of an… - Case
An author thinks that a journal’s decision not to publish is ethically incorrect
…proceedings were active; the workplace physician though involved scientifically was not listed as an author; and the paper discussed the outbreak from the perspective of Company A. While the article was cogent and objective about Company A, there was no information about Company B’s knowledge of the outbreak. If the case resolved in favour of Company B, then the article would need to reflect this. The… - News
Diversity in Peer Review: Survey Results
…important than diversity • My employer/publication (N=384)… …has achieved an ideal level of diversity in its peer reviewer pool (37%) …values diverse involvement and opinions in its peer review process (71%) …has policies to respond appropriately to alleged cases of discrimination in its peer review process (43%) …has diversity policies for… - Case
Reviewer misconduct?
…indeed reviewed the paper for journal A, and the date on which he/she had first been sent the paper preceded that of his/her own submission to journal B. The steps of our investigation were as follows: The aggrieved author was asked to provide additional details on which aspect of his work he/she suspected of being unethically used, and he/she identified a particular paragraph in journal B’s… - News
Guest article: Self-plagiarism in philosophy
…-sexually-assaulted-journal-retracts-paper-duplication/" target="_blank"> retractions. I am hopeful that the situation is improving. The increase in published corrections in the last few years is good sign. - Case
A lost author and a new hypothesis
…which B is cited as an author, again without his permission, is currently being held by the editor of a specialist journal pending the outcome of this particular case. All of the co-signatories and collaborators on the original grant application have been asked (with B’s permission) for their view on the allegations. A further complication is that although the grant awarding body has a procedure for… - Case
Serial plagiarism by an experienced author
…editors of other journals in the field. We have also retrospectively checked the overlap of all submissions currently in process and identified several others with unacceptably high similarity indexes. We are asking those authors to withdraw their submissions or to revise them to eliminate the overlap. Of the 231 submissions that have been checked to date, 71% have an iThenticate… COPE webinar: Current Issues in Peer Review
…in biology. Currently a visiting scholar at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Jessica performed postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School; she received a PhD in Biochemistry from UCSF and a BS in Biology from UNC-CH. She is president of the non-profit Future of Research and serves on ASCB's Public Policy Committee as well as NAS's Next Generation Researchers Initiative.- Case
Potential duplicate publication
…The editor felt the suggestion—that there was duplicate publication—was correct. The editor asked for three independent opinions (in confidence) from colleagues in the specialty. One of these was Journal B’s ombudsman. All three felt there was significant overlap between paper 2 in Journal B and paper 3 in Journal C. They also pointed out that neither of the papers in Journal B nor paper 3 in… - Case
The judgement of Solomon: a case of two strikingly similar papers
…A responded to say that he felt this was unfair. He did not want his manuscript to be sent to group B since his paper was the better of the two—it had received more positive reviews—and that he himself had not gained anything by seeing group B’s manuscript. He felt that he had lost the advantage of having submitted first and that his paper should be published first. We have three questions,… - Case
Suspect author
…co-authors. The largest group of papers (by topic) are all very similar in design, with very little variability in baseline placebo event rates, and generally similar results although the outcome measures differ and there are one or two ‘surprising’ (at best) findings. One particular drug features in 71 studies. Dropouts are hardly ever reported. (2) Regarding the newer papers: (i) these may… - Case
Inconclusive institutional investigation into authorship dispute
…A and B continued to disagree over email, including the journal in this correspondence. Author A did not provide a very detailed statement of contribution. The other authors provided some statements of varying detail. Some of the authors who are still based at Author B’s institution provided identical statements, agreeing that the corresponding author can decide who should be named an author on… - News
Case Discussion: Inconclusive institutional investigation into authorship dispute
…themselves and their institutions to adjudicate the disagreements. Most of the related cases emphasize the point that institutional investigations are the only way to proceed; however, in this case, the editor did not think the investigation was adequate. Editors are at a disadvantage when an institutional investigation is not adequate; in this case, since Author B’s institution did not contact authors… - Case
Authorship dispute
…Author A declared that he was the principle investigator of the project in country Z during 2004–2009, and the role of author B was to help in the analysis of the samples in his laboratory, located in country W.(2) Author A submitted an official complaint to author B’s university, alleging that they (authors B, C and D) had no right to use data without notifying or asking his permission. In… - News
Case discussion: Consequence for dual submission
…week. Records of the two journals revealed dual submission on the same day. However, the author repeatedly gave unsatisfactory responses when questioned by journal B, which then banned the author from future submissions. Journal A brought the case to COPE Forum after journal B’s editorial board suggested that it was journal A’s duty to inform the author’s institution about the misconduct. This… - News
In the news: February 2018 Digest
…src="/files/u7140/twitter_logo.jpg" style="width: 71px; height: 50px; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; float: right;" />On twitter, #ResearchData posts from attendees at the January 2018 Research Data Alliance EU Data Innovation Forum in Brussels covered many topics. One of the tweeters, Dⓐniel Mietchen @EvoMRI , relayed the invitation by pkdoorn, to edit a draft of "Rationale for International Alignment of Data Management… - News
Case Discussion: Inconclusive institutional investigation into authorship dispute - university perspective comment
…institutional investigations are the only way to proceed; however, in this case, the editor did not think the investigation was adequate. Editors are at a disadvantage when an institutional investigation is not adequate; in this case, since Author B’s institution did not contact authors outside of their institution, there is a reasonable assumption that the decision was made based on incomplete…
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