sanctions for misconduct

When journal editors, publishers or learned societies impose sanctions on authors who have committed publication or research misconduct (e.g. by banning individuals from publishing in their journals)

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  1. Lack of acknowledgement of contributor

    10-23 Our case relates to a paper (by author’s A and B) that was retracted because of lack of acknowledgement of the contribution of another author (C). The retraction statement noted: “While the A/B paper is largely the work of A and B, ...

  2. 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. ...

  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. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Author trap/fabrication detection

    07-21 This is how I dealt with an author who submitted a fabricated manuscript to my journal. ...

  7. 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 ...

  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 ...