359 We, the Editors of the Singapore Medical Journal (SMJ) and the Medical Journal of Malaysia (MJM), have noted a number of duplicate submissions to our respective journals over the recent year. This is a dishonest and unethical practice that is deplored by editors of medical and scientific journals. In addition, we feel that punitive measures should be applied to authors found guilty of dupli...

einstein registered (in the last issue) its first retraction, due to a case of duplicate publication: " Neuromuscular electrical stimulation in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit: a systematic review " , by journal, like all peer-reviewed and indexed journals, asks authors to state unequivocally in their submission letter that the paper has not already been submitted to another ...

http://dx.doi.org/10.3415/VCOT-15-02-0038 The authors of papers submitted for publication in Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology are required to confirm that the manuscript has been submitted solely to this journal, and it is not published, in press, or submitted elsewhere. It is essential that the paper is an original contribution, and that it does not contain data that ha...

BACKGROUND This study was done to determine the prevalence of publication misconduct among Iranian authors. METHODS Data were collected through an email survey of corresponding authors of papers published in Iranian journals indexed in Scopus during 2009-2011. Using the double list experiment, these individuals were indirectly questioned about committing one of the five misconducts including ...

3926 total records: 3925 records identified in the PubMed database 1 publication identified from PubMed search on glycaemic index, glycaemic load and diabetes 35 given detailed assessment 3871 excluded based on title or abstract 15 articles excluded: 1 publication on childhood/ adolescent fiber intake 3 not relevant exposure 2 not relevant outcome 6 duplicate publications 1 cross-sectional stud...

Duplicate publication in orthopaedic journals may further an author's academic career but this is at the cost of both scientific integrity and knowledge. Multiple publications of the same work increase the workload of editorial boards, misguide the reader and affect the process of meta-analysis. We found that of 343 'original' articles published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery in 1999,...