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Blatant example of duplicate publication?
A paper was submitted to one journal on 7 March, revised on 20 May, submitted to another journal on 21 March, revised on 29 May, accepted on 2 July and published in December 1997. The content of both papers is identical but each has different reference styles so were clearly intended for two different journals. The submission letter to the first journal clearly states that the material has not… - CaseOn-going
Duplicate articles due to DOI reassignment
The editors of Journal C have found that 15 of their recent articles have been assigned slightly different DOIs in the Online First and the final issue versions. This arose from administrative problems with the publisher’s production process and has resulted in duplicated articles in both spaces, and there may be other duplicate articles due to reassigning different DOIs. The editors of… - Flowcharts
Redundant (duplicate) publication in a published article
COPE's guidance, as a flowchart, on what to do if you suspect redundant (duplicate) publication in a published manuscript. Redundant (duplicate) publication in a published article - Case
“Inadvertent” duplicate publication
Could this be ignorance of process rather than bad behaviour? Both journals should make their position clear with regard to duplicate publication Both journals should look at their own processes for dealing with it.… - Case
Duplicate publication
The corresponding author had signed the submission letter on the other authors’ behalf. In view of the large numbers of co-authors involved, the editor considered it impractical to write to them all, but contacted the editors of three other journals where there was evidence of duplicate publication. One editor said that his journal was already refusing to consider any more work from the… - Flowcharts
Redundant (duplicate) publication in a submitted manuscript
COPE's guidance, as a flowchart, on what to do if you suspect redundant (duplicate) publication in a submitted manuscript. Redundant (duplicate) publication in a submitted manuscript - Case
Duplicate publication and now fraud?
…editors viewed this as duplicate publication because of the considerable overlap of material and failure of the authors to disclose the existence of the other paper. Both editors issued a notice in their journals of duplicate publication. It was also noticed that two of the authors were only mentioned on one paper and another author indicated that he had been unaware of the submission of the article at… - Case
Redundant publication?
The paper discussed the use of drug X in condition Y, submitted to journal A. It is a double blind randomised controlled trial, presenting the 1 year result in 129 women. It finds that drug X helps in condition Y. The authors published a similar paper in journal B, 2 months before submission of this paper to journal A. The journal B paper studied the same question in 601 women with a 2 year… - Case
Duplicate publication
The editor of Journal A drew the attention of the editor of Journal B to two articles published in their journals which were remarkably similar. The editor of Journal A believed that certain passages of text suggested duplicate publication of results. The dates of publication indicated that these data were accepted first by Journal A. Should it turn out to be duplicate publication, the authors… - 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… - CaseClosed: author misconduct
Duplicate publication in possibly four papers
This case involves four manuscripts. Three of the manuscripts were originally published in another language and then published in our English language journal. There is overlap in the authors who were involved in all four manuscripts. The first and second manuscripts were duplicated publications from another journal. The evidence is very clear. The papers were published in another… - Case
Duplicate publication
…Journal A. The authors were contacted by the editor of Journal A and asked for an explanation. They have replied that the two papers were intended for different audiences, and since the paper in Journal A was a more comprehensive study, this did not constitute duplicate publication. The papers were submitted at approximately the same time, and neither paper referenced the other.… - Case
Editorial compliance with duplicate publication
_ A much broader audience has been reached with the publication of the editorial. _ Publication in two languages is not a duplication issue, provided the authors are transparent and disclose any previous publications on submission. _ The onus is on the authors to disclose previous publications as their promise of honesty. _ Most readers don’t expect editorials to be completely new, but word… - Case
Case of duplicate publication detected after 9 years
…for any perceived misconduct but stated that as the other journal was not an indexed journal, he believed that this submission was not a bar to subsequent submissions to an indexed journal. Having discussed the case with the COPE Forum and not being convinced by the author’s reply we took a decision to retract the article on the grounds of duplicate publication. The retraction notice was… - Case
Duplicate publication or salami publication?
…two issue related to this article. (1) The author did not notify us, prior to his submission to another journal. (2) Almost all of the text is the same, indicating duplicate publication. Can this be taken as salami publication? How should we handle this issue?… - 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… - CaseOn-going
Retraction of the first article in the case of duplicate publication
The Forum agreed this is still a case of duplicate submission and that there has been possible misconduct on the part of the authors. Although there is only one copy of the paper in the literature, the Forum advised the editor to consider publishing an expression of concern to alert readers to this. The Forum agreed that the editor needs more information and the advice was to contact… - 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?… - CaseOn-going
Duplicate submission and authorship dispute
A case report was submitted to our journal (journal X) in February and accepted for publication in September that same year. In late September, the first author on the manuscript contacted us to inform us that this exact case report had just been published in another journal (journal Y) by some of his colleagues, including some of the authors of our manuscript. In the initial submission to our… - Case
Duplicate publication
An email was received from a reader indicating a possible duplicate publication of an article that appeared in the journal in 2004, and a similar publication that appeared in another journal in 2003. The Editor immediately wrote to the author, and to the editor of the other journal, expressing his concerns. The author responded five days later saying that he did not believe that the papers…