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Case

Duplicate submission, self-plagiarism

05-18

The journal commissioned a Seminar that arrived in September 2004 and was sent for peer review. In March 2005, we received a peer reviewer’s comments pointing out a very similar paper by the same authors in another journal, published in December 2004.

On careful comparison, there was over 70% text copied word-for-word, sometimes with trivial alterations, from the previous publication.

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