data ownership

When ownership of, access to, or rights to publish or to published research data are disputed

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  1. Publication of private data

    11-26 An article was submitted for publication. This was a survey of research activity in a specialist area and included, among other things, research funding amounts from each institution. This led to a sort of 'league table'. ...

  2. A claim of stolen data and a demand for retractions

    10-22 The publishers received an email from author B about a recently published paper, which passed peer review and had been available online for about a month. In this email, author B claimed that he and another colleague C had ...

  3. Conflicting claims of intellectual property?

    10-03 Dr R, of University 1, has written an ‘official complain’ to Editor E alleging that a paper he was invited to review employs without permission a method that is the ‘background intellectual property’ (BIP) of University 1. He ...

  4. Retraction or expression of concern?

    10-05 Shortly after publishing a short report, another group involved in similar work accused one of the authors (A) of the short report of fabricating and/or stealing data from their lab. The other group also stated that author A’s ...

  5. Author dispute over data presented in paper

    10-04 A manuscript was submitted to our Journal in 2008. The six authors signed the author form for the Journal which accompanies all submitted manuscripts. The author form gives information on the role each author played in the study ...

  6. What involvement should a journal have in a dispute about an article published in the journal?

    10-09 Our journal published a manuscript as part of an editors’ forum which, as an invited forum paper, received reviewer feedback but did not follow our usual double-blind peer review standard for regular submissions (the reviewers were ...

  7. Alleged unauthorized use of data and possible dual publication

    09-20 During review of a manuscript submitted to our journal, a dispute arose over some of the data used in the database that was described in the submitted paper. ...

  8. Failure to ask permission

    08-30 I am a trainer and author of books on medical writing. It was brought to my attention that a chapter in a German-language book published in Switzerland was based almost entirely on my teaching. The first author is director of a ...

  9. Availability of reagents

    08-25 One of our journals has published several articles describing use of a particular cell line X, which belongs to company Y. The authors included employees of company Y. A reader at a university, Dr Z, wished to gain access to cell ...

  10. A breach of intellectual property rights?

    08-24 We recently published article A by author group X on our website ahead of print publication and subsequently received a formal complaint from author group Y alleging that the paper constitutes a breach of their intellectual ...

  11. A(uthor) vs C(omplainant) authorship dispute

    08-23 A was a researcher in C’s lab for 1 year, during which time they published a joint research paper in a third party journal (journal S). After leaving C’s institute (henceforth called institute X), A published in the journal ...

  12. Dispute among authors

    08-14 Our journal has received a paper describing a study that originated as more than one trial in more than one country, with collaboration by researchers in another country. The DSMB considered and agreed a proposal to combine the ...

  13. The judgement of Solomon: a case of two strikingly similar papers

    07-25 In February 2007, author A and a colleague submitted a paper (paper A) to our journal, which uses double-blinded peer review. We sent paper A for external review. ...

  14. Controversy regarding ownership of a device

    07-20 A paper was submitted which described the outcomes of a clinical trial evaluating a particular device. The device was claimed to represent a placebo version of an active device intervention. The paper was reviewed fairly critically ...

  15. Non-compliance of author with request for information

    07-19 In April 2007, an original scientific article was published on line (ahead of print—it is now published in print, September 2007). In July 2007, the editors received the following request from a scientist who read this article: ...

  16. Is retraction justified because of an author dispute over permission to use data?

    06-33 Author X recently published a paper in Journal Y and has asked for the paper to be retracted. The reason given is that part of the data presented in the paper was published without the permission of a colleague, who is not listed ...

  17. Accusation of theft of a model

    06-03 During refereeing of an article, one of the referees made an accusation of theft regarding a model described in the article. The referee and the authors had been collaborating on a review article previously, but had fallen out. The ...

  18. Ownership of an idea

    05-21 A paper was submitted describing a novel technique for preparing tissue, which was noted immediately by a referee to be a modification of a method used by another researcher. The other researcher is thanked but is not included in ...

  19. Dispute between authors and a reviewer

    04-10 A concise report on a rare disease was submitted and sent out to an internationally renowned reviewer in the field. He felt that some of the data had been obtained in his unit, and this had not been acknowledged by the authors. The ...