redundant publication

When a published work (or substantial sections from a published work) is/are published more than once (in the same or another language) without adequate acknowledgment of the source/cross-referencing/justification,
or
When the same (or substantially overlapping) data is presented in more than one publication without adequate cross-referencing/justification, particularly when this is done in such a way that reviewers/readers are unlikely to realise that most or all the findings have been published before

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  1. Possible overlapping publications/data

    11-23 As editor-in-chief of a journal (journal A), I was contacted by an individual (N) who indicated the following: authors of an article published in journal A were questioned as to the similarity of a figure and a table appearing in ...

  2. Duplicate publication in possibly four papers

    11-21 This case involves four manuscripts. Three of the manuscripts were originally published in another language and then published in our English language journal. There is overlap in the authors who were involved in all four ...

  3. Duplicate publication allegation

    11-20 Our journal (journal A) received a complaint from a 'Clare Francis' alerting us to a case of duplicate publication involving our journal and another (journal B). The article in journal A was published first, but ...

  4. Retraction or correction?

    11-18 A reader contacted us with evidence that a number of western blots in a manuscript published by us in 2007 had been duplicated from other published papers; in one case, the same gel was duplicated in the paper itself. I compared ...

  5. Is this previous publication?

    11-14 A manuscript was submitted to our journal and, on running a routine CrossCheck report, we found that it contained a 68% match (over 5000 words) to a report from a funded project by the authors that had recently been published ...

  6. Supervisor publishes PhD students work

    10-14 The PhD supervisor and a co-supervisor published a paper. The paper contained the work of a PhD student; approximately 90% of the paper was from the thesis. The PhD student found out when the paper was electronically pre-published. ...

  7. Dual publication

    10-21 The authors submitted a paper to our journal which went through the review process and was accepted for publication. It was then placed online in corrected proof. While online we were informed by a reader that the paper appeared to ...

  8. Case of duplicate publication detected after 9 years

    10-01 An original research article was published in a journal in 2000. This is a quarterly, non-indexed journal. The abstract is available on a national indexation website. ...

  9. Concerns over research by an author in numerous, separate publications

    10-06 The authenticity of the content of numerous publications by Author K has been questioned by ‘concerned researchers’ in an anonymous email sent to the Editor of Journal A in December 2009. ...

  10. 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. ...

  11. Duplicate publication or salami publication?

    09-07 An author submitted an article to my journal. The editorial board discovered that the author had already published his article in another journal. The editorial board communicated with the author and he defended himself stating ...

  12. Multiple publication of research

    09-03 We submit to COPE a case regarding the suspected multiple publication of research on four separate occasions in four different journals. ...

  13. 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 ...

  14. Simultaneous publication

    08-19 About a month after our journal (Journal A) published a paper (Paper X), the journal received emails from readers that Paper X was very similar to a paper (Paper Y) that had just been published by another journal (Journal B). Some ...

  15. Clear case of duplicate publication?

    08-11 We received an article at our editorial office in April 2008. One of the referees discovered that a similar article had been published in a surgical journal in 2000. In that article, the authors presented data on the haemodynamics ...

  16. Duplicate publication in a non-English language journal

    07-42 Two authors submitted a case report which was interesting but not written in the style of the journal. The editor therefore invited the authors to rewrite the case report, and resubmit it. They did so within a week. The case report ...

  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. Duplicate publication?

    07-09 The editors of this journal check all articles against Medline for possible redundant publications. Two very similar articles from an author were retrieved when the name of the author was searched. The titles were very similar, ...

  19. Possible duplicate publication

    06-28 An article by a Far Eastern group was published in our journal in November 2005. We were later alerted by an interested reader that the same article, slightly changed, was published in an American journal. I contacted the American ...

  20. Duplicate publication

    06-20 Author X contacted the editor of Journal A to enquire whether the journal would be interested in a review of a new concept in the treatment of a disease, written by author X and two co-authors. Author X said that his co-authors had ...

  21. Duplicate publication

    06-02 An email was received from a reader indicating a possible duplicate publication of an article that appeared in the journal in 2004, and a similar publication that appeared in another journal in 2003. The Editor immediately wrote to ...

  22. Duplicate publication

    05-23 A reader contacted the editorial staff of Journal A after noticing that Journal B, which is primarily non-English, had published a paper that was remarkably similar.      The editor of journal A contacted the editor of Journal B.  ...

  23. Allegation of fraudulent publication

    05-15 Journal A published a paper in 2002.  In 2004 the Editor of Journal A was contacted by a reader, who expressed his doubts as to the integrity of one of the authors associated with the 2002 paper.  The reader suggested that the ...

  24. Dual publication

    05-01 An English language journal received a study describing a randomised controlled trial. The paper was accepted and published several months later. Five months after its publication the editors were informed that a similar study had ...

  25. Redundant publication

    04-29 A complaint of redundant publication was made by a reader, who claimed that a second paper had been published in the journal, after the first had already been published elsewhere. No permission letter was obtained by the author of ...

  26. Attempts to draw attention to potential duplicate publication

    04-06 A medical student brought a case of duplicate publication in two journals in the same specialty to the attention of an editor of a third journal. The article in Journal A was published in 1997 and the article in Journal B was ...

  27. Dual publication and attempted retraction by the author

    04-05 An author who published an article in Journal A at the end of the year wrote to advise that it would have to be retracted on the grounds that his PhD tutor, Professor X, had already submitted a similar manuscript more than a year ...