Plagiarism and Double Publication

Double Submission, Double Publication

gives a sufficient and reasonable explanation, we reject the submission without penalties. However, if the author does not respond, the explanation is unsatisfactory, or the author admits guilt, we will reject the submission with penalties, for example, sending a letter of warning, imposing a ban on submissions to KJFM for one or two years, or informing the author’s superior about the misconduc...

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...

A Case of Academic Plagiarism: The Perils of Internet Publication

Misconduct in Research and Publication

Dear Editor, I read the recent publication on “Misconduct in Research and Publication” with great interest[1]. I agree that misconduct in research and publication is not uncommon. Nevertheless, it is rarely mentioned. In fact, there are many incorrect conceptions among researchers on publication ethics. The milder examples are attempts to report only the “positive outcomes&rdq...

Epidemiology and pathology of plagiarism (2)

No doubt that the bright future of higher education systems is being threatened worldwide by the growing trend of research misconduct (RM) and its faith depends on our act against it. RM as a pandemic scientific damage has turned to a complicated phenomenon and its remedy needs global determination. As I have mentioned before (1), as long as the main target of publication, at least for many aca...