CONTEXT Duplicate publication is publication of an article that overlaps substantially with an article published elsewhere. Patterns of duplication are not well understood. OBJECTIVE To investigate duplication patterns and propose a decision tree for classification. DATA SOURCES We searched a comprehensive list of systematic reviews (1989 through August 15, 2002) in anesthesia and analgesia...

OBJECTIVE To identify the entropy levels that would correspond to bispectral index (BIS) levels in general anesthesia (GA) induction in patients who will undergo elective lumbar disc surgery (LDS). METHODS Thirty cases who underwent LDS under GA were included in our study after obtaining patient consent and approval of the Ethics Committee of Afyon Kocatepe University Medical School, Afyonkar...

Yonsei Med J Vol. 48, No. 6, 2007 This article has been found to be a duplicate publication, which has appeared in both EJVES Extra and Yonsei Medical Journal. This article is now retracted at the request of the Editor-inChief, European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, as this article first appeared in EJVES Extra (the electronic companion journal to European Journal of Vascular an...

The corresponding author submitted this article [1] to the Journal of Ophthalmology although it was under review by BMC Ophthalmology. The article was subsequently accepted and published by the Journal of Ophthalmology [2] and then by BMC Ophthalmology [1]. As it has been brought to the attention of the Editor that duplicate submission and publication have taken place, the Editor has made the d...

Ziegler D. Treatment of diabetic neuropathy and neuropathic pain: how far have we come? Diabetes Care 2008;31(Suppl. 2): S255–S261. DOI: 10.2337/dc08-s263 Two tables and the text of this article were first published in “Ziegler D. Treatment of Diabetic Polyneuropathy: Update 2006. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1084:250–266, 2006.” This article is therefore considered a duplicate pu...

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In this paper we explore post retraction citations to retracted papers. The reasons for retractions in our sample were data manipulation, small sample size, scientific misconduct, and duplicate publication by the authors. We found, that the huge majority of the citations are positive, and the citing papers usually fail to mention that the cited article was retracted. Retracted articles are free...

Corresponding author: Younsuk Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Ilsan Hospital, Dongguk University Medical Center, 814, Siksa-dong, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang 410-773, Korea. Tel: 82-31-961-7872, Fax: 82-31-961-7864, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// cr...

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With the quick development of the semantic web technology, RDF data explosion has become a challenging problem. Since RDF data are always from different resources, which may have overlap with each other, they could have duplicates. These duplicates may cause ambiguity and even error in reasoning. However, attentions are seldom paid to this problem. In this paper, we study the problem and give a...