Duplicate Publication and Related Problems in the Pediatrics Literature

Duplicate Publication and Related Problems in the Pediatrics Literature

Objective. The aim of this study was to (a) determine the rate of redundant publication in the pediatrics literature and (b) to characterize these articles. Methods. Index articles in JAMA Pediatrics, Pediatrics, and the Journal of Pediatrics from 2010 were identified using PubMed. Possible redundant material from 2008 to 2012 were searched using the authors' names. Suspected duplicates were ca...

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

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Duplicate publication and 'paper inflation' in the Fractals literature.

The similarity of documents in a large database of published Fractals articles was examined for redundancy. Three different text matching techniques were used on published Abstracts to identify redundancy candidates, and predictions were verified by reading full text versions of the redundancy candidate articles. A small fraction of the total articles in the database was judged to be redundant....

Multiple submission, duplicate submission and duplicate publication.