multiple submissions

When a manuscript (or substantial sections from a manuscript) is submitted to a journal when it is already under consideration by another journal

Search results

  1. Possible dual publication

    10-08 As editor of journal A I am handling a manuscript by an author and it is likely to be accepted, although this is not yet decided. As a reviewer for journal B, I have since been asked to review a manuscript by the same author that ...

  2. Plagiarism, double submission and reviewer ethicality

    09-22 This is a complicated case which involves possible plagiarism, double submission and reviewer misconduct. The timeline is as follows:  ...

  3. Duplicate submission

    09-15 We received a manuscript for consideration. The manuscript was assigned to one of our section editors who sent it for review. Subsequently, the editor-in-chief received an invitation from another journal to review the same paper. ...

  4. Unethical withdrawal of a paper

    08-32 The terms author A and author B will be used to refer to the corresponding and non-corresponding authors, respectively, of the paper in question. The term Editor will be used for Editor A of our journal and Editor B of the other ...

  5. Duplicate submission

    08-18 An author anxious about a competing paper contacted journals A and B (and perhaps others) about possible fast-track consideration of his study. Journal A said it would be as fast as possible; journal B actually had the competing ...

  6. Possible case of fraud

    07-30 A paper was submitted to us describing an RCT carried out in a Far Eastern hospital. Soon after the manuscript had been sent out for review, one of the reviewers sent a letter alerting us to a “possible case of fraud”. The reviewer ...

  7. Attempt at dual publication

    07-26 In October 2005, our journal commissioned a review on a specific topic from an expert in that field. The commission was accepted, and a submission date set. This was followed up and renegotiated several times over the coming months ...

  8. An attempt to publish data already published elsewhere

    07-06 A paper was submitted to this journal and sent out to be refereed. The paper had five authors, all from the same institution and department. The bulk of the data were contained in four tables. One of the reviewers pointed out that ...

  9. Duplicate submission

    06-29 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 ...

  10. Repetitive duplicate submission to multiple journals and redundant publication

    06-22 This case came to light when the editors of two journals (J1 and J2) established that the same manuscript (MsA) had been submitted to both journals simultaneously. On bringing this information to the attention of the author, ...

  11. A case of parallel publication?

    06-19 Paper A appeared in a foreign language journal, together with an English abstract. Paper B was submitted to us, and one of our referees alerted us to the similar content. ...

  12. Dual submission

    06-09 Paper 1 was submitted to journal A. The paper dealt with monitoring of a chemical element in various occupations in a range of workplaces. Samples were taken from the workplace air and bodily fluids of the workers, and conclusions ...

  13. Dual submission

    05-20 A referee’s report on a paper informed this editor that the authors had submitted a very similar paper to another journal. Both papers analyse the same 30 cases of an unusual neoplasm, and the tables and five of the ...

  14. Duplicate publication

    05-14 In 2003 a paper was published in a specialist surgical journal following proper peer review.  The paper summarised the experience of a group of clinicians concerned in treating malignancy in the Head and Neck using a novel method ...

  15. Foreign language duplicate publication

    05-05 A paper was published in an Italian language journal, together with an English abstract. A second paper was submitted to a UK journal, one of whose referees spotted the similar content. ...

  16. Attempted duplicate publication

    05-03 A reviewer informed Journal A that a manuscript s/he had been asked to review was very similar to one s/he had reviewed for Journal B. The lead author was informed about this and told the editors would come back to him after ...

  17. Whose responsibility is duplicate submission?

    04-32 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 ...

  18. Duplicate submission

    04-16 The authors submitted a paper to journal A on genetic analysis of a potentially pathogenic organism isolated from children, analysed by school attended. Six days later, the same authors submitted a paper to journal B on genetic ...

  19. Multiple submissions of a paper

    04-09 A paper suggested that a cluster of symptoms, signs, and tests could be combined to diagnose pneumonia in general practice. The paper was rejected after being read by two editors, because it was preliminary and had not been ...