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Dual submission, salami slicing, redundant publication, or all three?
Editor A wrote to editor B, indicating that one of the reviewers of a paper submitted to Journal A contained material that had been submitted at about the same time to Journal B. Editor A requested a copy of the paper submitted to Journal B. Editor B responded, confirming that the paper in question had been submitted to Journal B (submission date two weeks earlier than the paper submitted to… - Case
Yet another case of duplicate publication
A paper published in journal A in 1990 was published almost verbatim in journal B the following year, and yet again in journal C in 1993. None of these publications made any reference to the others. The case emerged in the process of one of the authors applying for a professorship. The authors conceded their error when tackled on the issue. One editor agreed to publish notice of duplicate… - 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
Duplicate publication allegation
…papers and did not consider it to be a case of duplicate publication, and that we considered the matter closed. Clare Francis did not agree, and reiterated the issue of the article submission timings, insisting that the paper be withdrawn, and seeming to ignore the substance of what had actually been published. 'She' appealed to our status as a member of COPE as a reason that we should take on board… - Case
Foreign language duplicate publication
… This is a clear cut case of duplicate publication. The editors should write to the authors and their institution. … - CaseCase Closed
Multiple redundant submissions from the same author
…journals. We followed the same steps and have not received a response. The institution listed in the author's submission form is not an academic one. We cannot find the author on the staff list and the only email address the author has provided is a Gmail account. Question(s) for the COPE Forum • What additional steps can/should we should take if the author/institution is… - Case
Duplicate publication
…A paper. The editor wrote to the authors requesting an explanation. He informed them that the journal takes a strong line on duplicate publication and disclosure of related publications, and that there should also be an appropriate acknowledgement of the contribution of other authors. The editor also wrote to the editor of Journal A asking him to look at both of the papers and to give him his views. Has… - Case
Possible duplicate publication?
…dentists to the treatment of a particular condition. The sample size, methods and results for dentists are identical in each paper, although the emphasis in the two discussions is slightly different. Both papers have been carefully worded to avoid any wholesale duplication of text. The short report was not mentioned in the reference list of the full paper.… - 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… - Flowcharts
How to recognise potential manipulation of the peer review process
…authors on submission of their manuscript to a journal; another reviewer who is unable to peer review the manuscript. While there is an expectation that everyone involved in the process acts with integrity, the peer review process can be susceptible to manipulation as discussed at - Case
Attempt at multiple plagiarism
In January 2004 a submission was made to Journal A from a laboratory in a different country. In April 2004 it was bought to the editor’s attention that the manuscript was a verbatim copy of a paper published in 2003 in another journal, Journal B. The only difference between the manuscripts was that the names and affiliations of the authors on the second paper were different to the first paper.… - Case
Duplicate publication
…a prestigious journal in the United States sent an e-mail to the current editor in this country stating that he had been in receipt of a manuscript, submitted electronically, which appeared to be an attempt at duplicate publication. He requested that a pdf file of the original article was sent to him and, in due course, confirmed that the new manuscript that he had received was a re-write of the already… - Case
Duplicate publication in a non-English language journal
…had previously been published in a non-English language journal. Moreover, in that version of the case report, but not in the more recent version, the head of department had been listed as an author. The head of department had not been asked or informed about the submission to the British journal. The head of department gave the reference of the previous publication. The editor obtained the paper:… - 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… - Case
Duplicate publication based on conference proceedings
…an international conference and that three articles had subsequently been published, but had acknowledged this in their original submission letter. They had also included a copy of one of the published articles for information. The authors had also suggested that a member of the editorial board could act as the editor for their paper because he had been present at the conference and was aware of… - Case
Duplicate submission, overlap of papers, and a referenced paper that was not in press
…authors highlighting what “good practice” is—that is, declaring submissions elsewhere and emphasising the difference between a paper that has simply been submitted, and one that is “in press. ”… - Case
Duplicate publication in a foreign language
…duplicate publication in another language has occurred? … - Case
Duplicate publication
…assumed that two separate groups of patients had been studied. _ Publish a notice of inadvertent duplicate publication in both journals.… - Case
Duplication, revision and resubmission?
A manuscript was submitted which described the effect of a drug on cell turnover and apoptosis in a deletion mouse model of a common cancer. One of the reviewers noted that a very similar paper by the same authors had been published in another journal in the same specialty,and went to the trouble of underlining blocks of text that were identical in both papers. In one paper the authors had repo… - CaseCase Closed
Duplicate publication and removal of article
The editor of journal A was alerted to the fact that an article published in journal A had been previously published in journal B and constituted a duplicate publication. The editor contacted the authors who explained that they had tried to withdraw the article from journal B but their request was ignored and the article was published against their wishes. The authors contacted journal…