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Possible plagiarism
我们收到了一封录制者向我们通知我们有可能的抄袭，两章由我们发表的两章，两章由同一作者撰写。举报人指责作者的大量抄袭。在两个章节中，确实如此，虽然大多数是恰当的归因的案文的某些未分配的部分。一些未分配的部分是由...创作的...... -
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Dispute arising from peer review of a rejected comment and published correction
In 2016, group A published manuscript X in our journal. In early 2017, group B submitted a comment critical of the published manuscript. Following peer review, in accordance with the journal’s then active policy, the comment was rejected from further consideration. The policy allowed for the author of the original article to be one of the peer reviewers of the comment. The lead author of… -
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审阅者要求添加多个引用自己的工作
处理编辑注意到审核报告the reviewer instructed the author to cite multiple publications by the same reviewer in their manuscript. The handling editor noted a similar instance involving this reviewer from the past and requested the editorial office to look into his reviewing history. This uncovered a concerning pattern of behaviour where the reviewer habitually asked a… -
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物品盗窃的受害者希望纠正列出他们的名字，而不是收回
Author A contacted us claiming that an article published in the journal recently by author B was stolen from an article author A had earlier submitted to two different publishers, publisher A in 2016 and publisher B in 2017. Author A provided the PDFs of the manuscripts they had submitted to those other publishers. The version submitted to us 2018 by author B was very similar to that submitted… -
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拒绝稿件中的数据制造
An author submitted two manuscripts to our journal and the data were clearly fabricated, which was confirmed when we examined the original patient data files. The lead author admitted that they had only recruited a few patients and fabricated all of the remaining data and said that the co-authors had done this without their knowledge. We reported this to the institution, who conducted an… -
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同行评审员由作者联系
In a single blind peer review process, a reviewer gave an author detailed suggestions about improvements in the statistical analysis. The author was asked to revise and resubmit the paper to address these and other reviewers' suggestions. The author, unaware of the reviewer’s identity, subsequently approached the reviewer as a respected colleague at a professional meeting to discuss the manuscr… -
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Authorship conflict
作者A联系我们的期刊在发布稿件之后声称他是正确的作者。我们向提交人询问证明，他说他有关于患者的所有数据，因为他收到了手术标本并进行了诊断。作者A表示，他还与作者B写作文章，因此惊讶于他的名字和他的...... -
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Self-plagiarism and suspected salami publishing
有六个作者我接受了原稿》杂志上n June 2017, which was published in January 2018. Several months later, the editors of journal A found that journal B had published paper B, which shared striking similarities to paper A. Journal B accepted paper B in November 2017 and published it in February 2018. The first author of paper B was different but the remaining four authors were fr… -
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提交预先提交询问
我们最近收到了一份作者的提交咨询，他被确定为与书面文件相当缺乏经验。乍一看，这是一个相当标准的提交预先询问。提交人提到了他们据称两篇论文的标题，并想知道我们是否可能对他们感兴趣。提交人补充说，他们有一个同事们也会成为波提尼...... -
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随意提交的数量增加
We have experienced a sudden spurt in casual submissions of poor quality articles. We believe this is because authors wish to show that they have submitted articles which are under consideration at reputable journals. While any journal or editor would be happy to see increased numbers of submissions, sadly, most are of very poor quality in all respects. Most are very casually prepared wi… -
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Are copyrighted conference audiotapes considered "prior publication"?
An editor received a query from an author: “Your guidelines are clear that presenting data at a society meeting does not preclude publication. But what if the society records the presentation, retains copyright of that recording, and posts it online? Is asking presenters to turn over copyright of a recording of data presented at a prepublication stage and disseminating the recording as they see… -
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Editor manipulation of impact factor
专业领域的主要医学期刊首席的编辑也是作者。编辑在同一领域的竞争期刊上提交稿件。稿件收到适度有利的评论，并邀请作者回复审阅者输入并提交修订后的稿件。在该杂志的沟通中，提交人被要求引用...... -
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举办机构不会调查的举报人的科学误解
一份期刊收到了对匿名个人的对科学的不当行为指控，他们来自撰写论文的小组（机构-1，有两项参与本研究的机构）。该电子邮件表示，文章的科学基地是不可靠的。该文件目前与作者在第一轮审查后修改本文，一个...... -
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Inconclusive institutional investigation into authorship dispute
在发布文章后，作者A联系了期刊，要求纠正他们的姓氏。作者A的名称由两部分组成，但只有一个被包含在出版物中。编辑接受了此要求，但请问所有作者都同意发布错误。作者B（相应作者）立即回答，不同意出版这种错误。作者告知...... -
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Retrospective registration, outcome switching and ethical approval
Journal A received a number of concerns from a reader regarding a paper published in the journal. These concerns were reviewed and sent to the authors of a paper, along with additional comments from the editorial board. The concern was largely around retrospective registration, and an inconsistency between the trial registry record and the published paper. An editorial board member conducted a… -
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Undisclosed conflict of interest
我们出版了两次同行评审条款 - 一项议定书，一篇论文与比较分析的结果，比较了一群与特定的“互补医学保健组织”（CMG）相关的一群人，其中一般人群得出结论有“异常的健康指标”（比一般人群更有利）。论文最初包含...... -
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发布规模的许可证
我们收到了一些涉及发布规模的稿件，其中已知规模的开发人员梳理文献并询问那些使用规模的人来支付追溯许可证，有时会要求非常大的金额。我们已开始向作者询问所有提交的尺度用于提供与规模的许可协议副本...... -
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编辑和审阅者要求作者引用自己的工作
A staff member in our editorial office noticed a decision letter where a handling editor instructed an author to cite an article published by the handling editor. The staff member wondered if this had happened before and reviewed recent decision letters by that editor. This revealed a concerning pattern of behaviour—the handling editor’s decision letters (including reviewers’ comments) asked au… -
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Dispute between two authors
作者A向我们的期刊提交了一个稿件。本文的内容是有争议的。我们将此稿件发送了两种临床评论员的同行评审。我们撰写回答提交申请重大修订，以解决审稿人提出的担忧和问题。提交并接受了修订的论文。因为这篇文章是争议的，迷你评论...... -
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License for using a published scale
A researcher has published a paper in our journal using a scale published in 2008. She wrote to the scale developer in 2014/2015 at least three times (emails are on file) before the start of the project, but the scale developer did not respond despite repeated email reminders. No indication of the need for a license was received. In 2017, when the researcher published the paper using the above…