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Duplicate submission, self-plagiarism
The authors should have self disclosed. The authors tried to defend themselves by arguing that a certain percentage of duplication was acceptable in a review article. It was thought this issue should be taken further. The committee thought that the authors were being dishonest and had tried to fool the editor into duplicate publication and also fool the readers. The advice was to ake… - CaseCase Closed
Possible self-plagiarism and/or prior publication
…submissions, and would in all likelihood be regarded as a case of academic misconduct. We have consulted the COPE website for advice but there does not appear to be a comparable case whereby the original identical article is in the public domain but not previously published in another journal. We are also aware of the various definitions and types of plagiarism and self-plagiarism which render the… - Case
Self-plagiarism?
A paper was published with four authors from two universities and the contact author provided an exclusive license form on behalf of all of the authors. After publication, one of the authors contacted the editor claiming a case of plagiarism. The claim is that the published paper was a direct copy of an MSc thesis which this person had supervised 7 years previously. Complications arise in that… - CaseOn-going
Self-plagiarism of review article
…advice on whether to pursue this as we would an original article case of self-plagiarism (ie, retract the paper) or whether it would suggest an alternative course of action(s). We have not investigated the allegation made about journal Z as it is outside of our remit.… - Case
Self plagiarism
…Examination of four or five easily accessible references revealed an unacceptably high proportion of direct replication: many phrases and sentences and some complete paragraphs. The paper was rejected with an explanation that this practice of self-plagiarism is unacceptable, and that the journal would be contacting the head of research ethics at the author’s institution. The author appealed against… - CaseCase Closed
Self-plagiarism and suspected salami publishing
…Had the editors of journal A known that the authors had submitted or planned to submit paper B to another journal, they would have rejected paper A. The claim now is that the authors have self-plagiarised the manuscripts, with potential salami publication. Question(s) for the COPE Forum• When self-plagiarism and suspected salami publishing is found in a published article, what… - CaseOn-going
Excessive self-citation in a book chapter
…publisher proceed? Although excessive self-citation was confirmed, the content of the work seems to be valid and did not appear to include any instances of plagiarism or research misconduct. … - Case
Extensive plagiarism
…Journal A were asked for an explanation. It’s hard to see that there is any explanation apart from plagiarism. The authors of paper A claim that there is only 5% overlap between the two articles.… - Case
Plagiarism
A paper by Turkish authors was submitted to journal A. The paper was virtually the same as one published in the equivalent US journal B of the same specialty,but with different authors. The paper submitted to journal A seems to have been plagiarised from the paper published in journal B. The editor has written to the deans of the faculties of medicine to which the authors are attached. What mor… - Case
Sections of plagiarised text in an e-publication
…for plagiarism are retraction and public admission. The grey area is how to treat the situation as the science does not appear to be flawed, only how it is presented as the big picture. While the case clearly involves plagiarism (true plagiarism, self-plagiarism and unquoted use of text), there is no way to ensure the science is fairly presented while the authors are reprimanded. Accepting… - Case
Suspected plagiarism
This is regarding a case of suspected plagiarism in our journal. I as editor have received a manuscript which was published by me in our January 2006 issue and on subsequent follow up after availability of plagiarism detection software the manuscript - a review article - seems to have a lot of similarities to another article written in a website and though the language is not the same -the… - Case
Double plagiarism
…should be informed that if there is no action or explanation forthcoming on their part, then all the journals will simultaneously publish a notice of plagiarism.… - Case
Definition of plagiarism?
…that this is not an isolated incident, the editor has been advised to contact the institute with details of this specific allegation. However, we were interested to note that advice from our legal department clearly stated that plagiarism could only be proven if the alleged plagiarism was word-for-word the same as the original text, with the implication that as the text was in a different… - Case
Plagiarism
A manuscript submitted to journal X was remarkably similar to a paper already published in journal Y. The similarities were noticed by one of the peer reviewers for journal X. The paper has been rejected by journal X but the editor has now written to each of the authors asking for an explanation and has told them that if a reasonable explanation is not forthcoming, she will inform the dean of t… - CaseOn-going
Plagiarized figure
…plagiarism? Can the authors remove the figure and publish this paper or should the paper be withdrawn?• Should we contact the author’s university again?… - CaseCase Closed
Duplicate submission or self plagiarism. Is the author to blame?
…organisers did not inform the authors. After the response from the journal, the authors wrote to the conference organisers asking them to retract the article from their website. The conference organisers are not replying to the emails from the authors. Questions for COPE Council Is this a case of duplicate submission/self plagiarism with the authors being unaware?… - Case
Plagiarism
…seems likely that the co-authors are unaware of the plagiarism by the first author. The editor of Journal A wrote to the corresponding author to point out the apparent plagiarism and to ask for an explanation. The corresponding author replied, apologising profusely for the error and saying that he would withdraw the paper for consideration while further investigations were made. He explained that the… - CaseCase Closed
Possible plagiarism
We received an email from a whistleblower notifying us about possible plagiarism in two chapters published by us, both authored by the same two authors. The whistleblower accused the authors of substantial plagiarism. In both chapters there were, indeed, certain unattributed parts of the text, although the majority was properly attributed. Some of the unattributed parts were authored by… - CaseCase Closed
A case of plagiarism?
The Forum agreed that this was a clear case of plagiarism, and as another journal was involved, there may also be copyright issues. The Forum stressed that according to the COPE guidelines, an editor does not need the approval of the author to retract an article. If the editor feels there are grounds for retraction, he/she can retract the article without the author’s permission. In this… - Case
Plagiarism
A review article by an expert group plagiarised an article from another journal. It was largely a direct translation, involving large slabs of the text. Some of the authors are on the editorial board of the journal where the paper was published. There was no declaration that this was a translation of another article. … The editor is potentially in a very difficult situati…