Dual Publication

Plagiarism, copyright violation, and dual publication: are you guilty?

Let us imagine you are writing a paper for submission to a journal. You need some introductory material including site description, explanation of methods . that sort of thing. Hey, you just published a paper in another journal that has exactly what you need. Why not just lift the text verbatim (or maybe change a few words here and there) and also a few of the figures and insert it all into the...

Publication, publication, publication…

2013 has been a year of relative stability at the Annals. After two years of rapid changes in staff and implementation of our electronic manuscript handling, this year we had time and people to consolidate. Authors in particular will have noticed the hard work of Kim Lewry, our Editorial Assistant, who has tracked down papers that were stuck in the system and has made a substantial contribution...

Duplicate Publication Duplicate Publication Duplicate Publication

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redundant publication' or 'duplicate publication' in the biomedical literature

Publication Ethics: A Case Series with Recommendations According to Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Ethical misconduct is not a new issue in the history of science and literature. However, ethical misconducts in science have grown considerably in the modern era which is due to emphasis on the scientific proliferation in research institutes and gauging scientists according to their publications. In the current case series, several misconducts occurring over the previous years in Mashhad Univer...