plagiarism

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1. Self-plagiarism of review article

   11-17 A reader flagged up that a review article originally published in a journal X in April 2003 had subsequently appeared with a few minor additions and deletions in journal Y (our journal) in July 2004 and then in journal Z (of which ...

2. Plagiarism of reviewer's work

   11-03 Several Europe-based authors, including well known, respected and much published ones, submitted an essay for the journal's section on research methodology. ...

3. Plagiarism of published paper

   10-20 My subeditor handling this case told me he had found similarities with the protocol of a paper published elsewhere. The subeditor decided to send the paper for review to one of the authors of this published paper. The reviewer ...

4. 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:  ...

5. Self plagiarism

   09-21 On initial assessment of a submitted review paper with a single author, the editor checked some of the references to the author’s own work that were cited in the paper. The author mentioned in the covering letter that he had ...

6. Sections of plagiarised text in an e-publication

   09-27 An article was published online (e-pub), and a reader notified the editor about a section of the abstract that was taken from a review article published in another journal by different authors. Subsequent analysis of the e-pub ...

7. Possible plagiarism

   09-14 A review paper (paper 1) was published in journal A. A review paper on the same subject (paper 2) by a different author was published in my journal (journal B) later in the same year. The authors of paper 1 and the editor of ...

8. Paper published that is a verbatim copy of another published one by another author

   09-01 This is a report of two cases of possible misconduct by the same author(s): one that was identified during the review process and one only after it was published. ...

9. Duplicate publication

   09-06 We are fortunate to have very knowledgeable reviewers who are immersed in their specialty and in the literature. A reviewer informed us that s(he) was working on a review of a manuscript and thought that there had to be more ...

10. Repeated alleged plagiarism in case reports

    08-31 Our journal has recently been the subject of an attack of attempted plagiarism by an author from a military hospital in another country. The first evidence of this was alerted to us by one of our reviewers who identified an almost ...

11. A severe case of plagiarism?

    08-27 A review article was submitted to the journal and sent for peer review. One of the reviewers brought to the editor’s attention that a substantial number of sentences and sections of the paper had directly, verbatim, been copied ...

12. An article in a high profile journal that potentially misappropriates research published in lower impact journals

    08-26  It has been drawn to our attention that a paper published in a high-impact journal in the field of biological sciences (Journal A) draws very heavily on research published in the lower-impact factor journal for which we work ...

13. Plagiarism in a case report

    08-20 I received a phone call from the first Author (A) of a case report published in our journal in 2005, who informed us that he had received a letter from an Author (B) of a research letter which had been published in another journal ...

14. Plagiarism in a systematic review

    08-01 The editors received an unsolicited systematic review and the paper was assessed for suitability for peer review, as is the usual procedure for this journal. The editor who assessed the manuscript noticed similarities with a ...

15. Possible plagiarism case

    07-38 One of the referees of our journal has brought to our attention a potential case of plagiarism. ...

16. Potential case of plagiarism

    07-37 One of the referees of our journal has brought to our attention a potential case of plagiarism. ...

17. Plagiarism case

    07-11 A letter was sent to the editor indicating that three articles (one of them in the editor’s journal) on identical subjects had been published in the same year (2006) by the same authors, accusing the first author of all three ...

18. Definition of plagiarism?

    07-05 In 1997 a book was published (in Italian) on the life of an Italian composer, assembled through analysis of his mummified remains.  Author A contributed a chapter on anthropological analysis (chapter X) and author B co-authored a ...

19. Suspected plagiarism

    06-32 This is regarding a case of suspected plagiarism in our journal. I as editor have received a manuscript which was published by me in our January 2006 issue and on subsequent follow up after availability of plagiarism detection ...

20. Possible plagiarism

    06-27 A Middle Eastern author submitted four papers on different subjects at around the same time (two single author, two with other authors). During in-house assessment, it was noted that two of the papers were very similar to ...

21. Potential plagiarism

    06-24 In 2003, Journal A published an original article. In 2006, the editor received a complaint of plagiarism relating to a case report published by Journal B in 2000. ...

22. A case of plagiarism

    06-10 A paper with five authors was submitted from a university hospital in a Middle-Eastern country. One of the reviewers complained that it extensively plagiarised one of his own publications. Examination showed that about 30% of the ...

23. Suspected plagiarism

    05-11 We had a case of suspected plagiarism recently on one of our journals, on which I would appreciate COPE’s advice. The case has been resolved, so this is not in the least urgent, but I would be interested to hear your views. ...

24. Plagiarism

    05-08 A review article by an expert group plagiarised an article from another journal. It was largely a direct translation, involving large slabs of the text. Some of the authors are on the editorial board of the journal where the paper ...

25. Dispute over plagiarism

    04-24 A review article, written by two authors, was spontaneously submitted to Journal X and accepted for publication after favourable comments from the referees. A few weeks later, and before the paper had been published, Author A ...

26. Plagiarism in a review article

    04-23 A review article was spontaneously submitted and sent out to three peer reviewers, which is standard practice for the journal. One of these reviewers expressed “serious concerns” about the paper. In a telephone conversation, s/he ...

27. Attempt at multiple plagiarism

    04-15 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 ...

28. Wholesale plagiarism

    04-04 A review article was submitted by three authors from three separate institutions to Journal A. It was sent out to two referees. One of the referees noticed an apparent similarity with a review published a year earlier in Journal B, ...

29. Plagiarism and possible fraudulent publication

    03-22 An article written by eminent doctors on a subject of great public interest, with implications for public health policy, was published in Journal A. They subsequently wrote to Journal A, indicating that an article had been ...

30. Plagiarism and possible fraud

    03-16 The authors of a paper published in another journal wrote to the editor of Journal A, complaining of apparent blatant plagiarism of their work by N et al. , whose paper had been published in the journal earlier in the year. ...

31. Attempted plagiarism of a published report

    03-13 A review paper covering the prevention of a certain type of infection was submitted to Journal A. One of the reviewers identified that the paper was based word for word on a report that had published guidelines on the same area. ...