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Dual submission
The committee questioned the use of the term “fraud” in these circumstances, saying it implied an action far more serious than perhaps was the case. Fraud suggested that there was a deliberate attempt to mislead or the submission of falsified data. In reality, this was more a matter of misconduct involving a breach of publishing rules. The committee asked if the authors’ were new to writing so… - Case
Dual submission
…Journal B, which happens to share an office with Journal A. The next month essentially the same paper originally submitted to Journal A was resubmitted. It was unchanged from the previous submission, but with a slightly different title. The editorial assistants of Journals A and B noted that, apart from some differences in the introduction, the two papers were identical. Journals A and B wrote to the… - Case
Dual submission, salami slicing, redundant publication, or all three?
… This was a case of an intelligent reviewer catching a dual submission serendipitously. Sending a copy of the manuscript under review to another editor might be considered a breach of confidentiality with the author, but in cases of suspected misconduct, such action was part of the peer review process and the information sent to the other editor would be on a ‘need to know’… - Case
Dual submission due to discordant action of two authors
…authors to confirm whether this was indeed the case. They expressed surprise, but the senior author acknowledged that dual submission had occurred and apologised. Apparently the first and second authors had acted independently of one another, and neither had indicated whether the manuscript had been resubmitted to the two journals following rejection by a third journal. The editor rejected the… - Case
Dual submission
…under submission. _ Author dispute and ineptitude could underlie this case. _ Write to the authors reminding them what good publication practice is and that duplicate submission is not acceptable.… - CaseCase Closed
Consequence for dual submission
…than punitive, especially if the authors are junior researchers. The institution has a role in mentoring the author and to ensure that this type of behaviour does not persist. This may also serve to convey to the author the seriousness of the infraction. A suggestion was to write an editorial on the issue of dual submission. Do authors really understand what it means, and the consequences of… - Case
Dual submission
We had already taken action on this case and case 06-10 but for future cases which might arise we were interested to know COPE’s view. The Editorial Board discussed the COPE views but decided that as the two matters were now largely history it was not worth taking further action. Since then, however, we have had a further case of partial dual submission, and the COPE discussion on 06-09 has… - Case
Author dispute and dual submission
A case report was submitted for consideration and, following favourable review, was accepted for publication by Journal A. All three authors signed the copyright release form, but about six weeks later a request not to publish the article was received by e-mail, which was attributed to a “misunderstanding and argument between two of the authors.” The editor wrote to all three authors expressin… - CaseCase Closed
Dual submission and editor’s failure to take action
…published in July. We first wrote to the authors that this was unethical and amounted to dual submission. We again received a rather impolite reply. We then wrote to the editor of the journal in which the article was published. Apparently, this journal does not ask for a non-submission undertaking from the authors. The editor was quite vague in his reply. We sent him the details of dual submission… - Case
Attempted dual publication?
_ The timing of the other cases was odd—if they were available in time to get the paper reviewed and published in another journal, then they would have surely been available for submission in Journal A? The editor said that Journal A had taken some time to review the paper, but agreed that it was insufficient time for the other cases to have been documented and sent for publication. _ Not all… - CaseCase Closed
Boundaries of duplicate submission
…published online at journal A. At no point was the submission formally withdrawn from consideration at either journal. A reviewer of the original submission to journal B saw the report online at journal A and notified the editors of both journals regarding potential dual submission concerns. The corresponding authors were contacted, and their position was that, because the paper was never actively under… - CaseOn-going
Simultaneous submission without aiming at duplicate publication
The Forum noted the policy of dual submission has not been honoured but there is little than journal A can do. In this case, it seems that the dual submission was not deliberate bad practice on the part of the authors. The authors made the mistake of not withdrawing their article from journal A before submitting it to journal B. The authors may have wrongly thought that journal A knew… - Case
Duplicate submission to two journals and previous duplicate publication uncovered
…submission, of which he was a co-author, which a PUBMED search revealed, were duplicate publications of each other. The associate editor of one of the journals also suspected that another of the cited papers published in English was very similar to one published in German. Both journals withdrew the paper from the review process, pending an explanation from the author for the attempt to secure dual… - Case
Attempted dual publication
…X said that the Japanese authors were clearly attempting dual publication, were therefore completely unethical,and should be reprimanded severely. As editor of journal A,what should be done about: 1 The issue of apparently simultaneous submission to two journals? 2 The breach of con?dentiality by expert X (and also expert Y, commissioned by another journal B)?… - CaseOn-going
Duplicate submission and request for withdrawal
…B has tried to contact the authors and the authors' institution but has not had a response. The Forum noted that the paper should only be retracted if there are sufficient grounds for retraction. COPE retraction guidelines do not support retraction of a published article in the case of dual submission (versus dual publication) but in this case, the data issues also need to be taken into… - Case
Dual publication
…version of the original paper so that we could assess whether this was a case of dual publication. In the meantime, we removed the online version. Following this, the authors withdrew the paper. The question now is, should we pursue this further by reporting the authors to the regulators in their country for an apparent attempt at dual publication and, if so, to whom should we report?… - Case
Duplicate submission
…submission. We subsequently emailed the authors of the paper asking for an explanation, especially considering they had confirmed at the time of submission that their manuscript was not under consideration in any other journal. The authors withdrew their paper from the second journal and responded to us by saying that they were very sorry for their “low-level error” in submission and apologised for the… - Case
Whose responsibility is duplicate submission?
Ten days after receiving an article for consideration, a group of editors received an email from the publisher informing them that the particular author in question had recently submitted nine articles to their journals, eight of which had been submitted in the previous seven weeks. Based on the similarity of the titles, the publisher had concerns about possible duplicate submission and had… - Case
Attempt at dual publication
In October 2005, our journal commissioned a review on a specific topic from an expert in that field. The commission was accepted, and a submission date set. This was followed up and renegotiated several times over the coming months. A first draft was received in January 2007, and assessed inhouse for feedback to the authors. Some suggestions were made regarding structure and content, and the… - CaseCase Closed
Increased number of casual submissions
We have experienced a sudden spurt in casual submissions of poor quality articles. We believe this is because authors wish to show that they have submitted articles which are under consideration at reputable journals. While any journal or editor would be happy to see increased numbers of submissions, sadly, most are of very poor quality in all respects. Most are very casually prepared…