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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
Duplicate submission
The committee discussed that this did indeed sound like an example of attempted salami publication. The editors’ note that substantial portions of the text were identical may indicate that this is closer to attempted duplicate submission. The editors should write to the authors again stating a deadline for response. If the authors do not respond the editors should write to all the authors’… - Case
Duplicate submission
…editors of journal A about the possibility of duplicate submission. · Was the author guilty of duplicate submission? Could he reasonably suppose that having formally withdrawn his article from journal B, it was not “under consideration” again there until/unless he formally resubmitted it? Does the exchange of emails… - CaseOn-going
Duplicate submission and request for withdrawal
…waited for the acceptance before withdrawing from journal A. Journal A contacted journal B to explain the duplicate submission, and that the authors requested withdrawal, citing doubts in the validity of their paper’s data. Questions for the COPE Forum Should journal B retract the paper on these grounds? What happens if journal B does not receive… - Case
Duplicate submission
…occurrence of duplicate submission. The corresponding author claimed that he had entrusted one of the authors to submit it to our journal. Then the corresponding author was away with no telephone access and on his return he found that the paper had been submitted to two journals. He went on to say that his colleagues have access to his e-mail account and so they used his email account to submit to the… - Case
Duplicate submission, self-plagiarism
…publication. When challenged the authors replied in great detail arguing about the exact extent of duplication but also saying this was an ‘honest mistake’ of not disclosing the other paper to us as it was not yet accepted. They still argue for the value of their paper. We have rejected the paper pointing out that duplicate submission is unacceptable. Should we do more?… - Case
Duplicate submission
An article was submitted simultaneously to our journal and another journal (who is a member of COPE) on the same date. Both journals received letters saying that the article had not been submitted to another journal. When they received a favourable response from the other journal, and the article was published, we were informed by the authors that they wished to withdraw the paper from our jour… - Case
Duplicate submission of a paper
A paper concerning the prevention of coronary disease in primary care was received. This examined the practical consequences of following some recent national recommendations and suggested that the recommendations were unrealistic. A few weeks later another paper from the same authors was submitted, which the editor who first read it thought was probably an inadvertent duplicate submission of… - Case
Duplicate submission to two journals and previous duplicate publication uncovered
An identical paper was submitted simultaneously to two journals. Both editors had received a signed statement from the authors declaring that their paper had not been submitted elsewhere. Duplicate submission became evident only when the associate editor of one of the journals was sent the paper to review by the editor of the other journal. The author also cited two papers within this… - Case
Repetitive duplicate submission to multiple journals and redundant publication
…submitted to J8, J2, and J7. J2 contacted J8 about possible duplicate submission. J8 rejected MsD based on reviewer reports and also added a note to the author informing them that there had been a report of possible duplicate submission with their Ms. The abstract of MsD has been found to be identical to the abstract of an article published in June 2005 in J10 with the exception of two… - CaseCase Closed
Boundaries of duplicate submission
A paper was submitted to journal A. The reviewers were enthusiastic but raised substantive concerns. The editorial decision was 'reject with resubmission allowed', providing the authors the opportunity to submit a revision if they feel all concerns can be addressed. The authors elected to submit substantially the same report to journal B. The outcome was essentially the same; the paper was reje… - 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 submission, overlap of papers, and a referenced paper that was not in press
A paper was submitted that reported a randomised controlled trial of a treatment for a blood disorder in a group of children. Better psychomotor development was achieved in the treated group. This paper went through considerable revisions, which were requested by the editorial committee, and a revised version was finally submitted a year later. But the revised version now included a new referen… - 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… - Case
Duplicate publication based on government data
…authors wrote independently to express their concern that they might have “inadvertently” acted with impropriety. In the end, the corresponding author wrote to say that on reflection, they had decided to withdraw the short paper from Journal A. The editor of Journal A gained the impression that the authors had acted, although incorrectly, “in good faith. ”Nevertheless, an undisclosed duplicate… - CaseCase Closed
Article published at two journals after withdrawal from first journal
…checking the dates, Journal B confirmed that submission to their journal occurred one month after the withdrawal confirmation from Journal A, meaning that the authors had not committed duplicate submission. In addition, Journal B rechecked the original iThenticate report that was generated when the authors submitted; the iThenticate report showed no previous publication of the article. Journal… - Case
The single authored, unbelievable, randomised controlled trial
…another approach. Though the paper has never been formally rejected or withdrawn, a very similar paper has been published, raising the issue of duplicate submission of the paper.… - 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.… - Case
Is retraction justified because of an author dispute over permission to use data?
As the author has clearly stated that the data are correct, and the only dispute is a small section of the paper that was published without permission, the committee felt that a retraction is not necessary. As the degree of overlap is so small, this is unlikely to constitute duplicate submission. The second paper could cite the first paper and make a note that the data were published…
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