Bilingual (multilingual) publications and duplicate publications: for or against?

Duplicate and salami publications.

EXTENT OF THE PROBLEM full article in a different language and for a different reader base can be permitted provided the editors of Though there is a high degree of trust and both the journals agree for the same and consider it veracity in medical publications, an occasional beneficial for the readers. report of duplicate and salami publications bothers the medical fraternity. In recent years, ...

Notice of Duplicate Publications

Identifying duplicate publications: primum non nocere.

Errami and Garner published in the January 24, 2008 issue of Nature an article entitled “A Tale of Two Citations” that deals with the timely subject of publication of duplicate papers (1 ). With the increase in the number of scientific journals and the ongoing pressure to publish in them, inappropriate and unethical practices such as plagiarism, unauthorized “cosubmission” of a paper to two or ...

Duplicate Publications in Korean Medical Journals Indexed in KoreaMed

Duplicate publication is considered unethical. It has several negative impacts. To estimate the frequency and characteristics of duplicate publications in Korean medical journals, we reviewed some portion of Korean journal articles. Among 9,030 articles that are original articles indexed in KoreaMed from January to December 2004, 455 articles (5%) were chosen by random sampling. PubMed, Google ...

Duplicate / redundant publications : quality should take precedence over quantity

Recently, I attended a research methodology workshop (targeted at postgraduate students and faculty), organized by a prestigious multinational pharmaceutical company with strong research background. One of the presenters, who happen to be a medical doctor, said “We, clinicians in India have such a huge patient database, why are we not publishing? Let us start documenting everything.” I was very...