Intellectual property

Author group A deposited a preprint onto a preprint server and simultaneously submitted the manuscript to journal A. Peer review in journal A took some considerable time, but the paper (paper A) was eventually published. During the long peer review of paper A, author group A noticed that another set of authors, author group B, had published paper B in journal B. While paper B was submitted several weeks after paper A (and after the preprint appeared), peer review in journal B was somewhat faster, and so paper B was published before paper A. Author group A suspect that some of the data and language in paper B was taken from their preprint, and that author group B had used this to "scoop" paper A. A citation to the preprint was given in paper B but author group A felt that this was only to guard author group B against accusations of plagiarism, and certainly did not assign full credit to their original discoveries.

作者集团的感觉像作者集团B这样的主要结果在他们的预印刷品中加速了纸质B中的一些主要观点。不幸的是，作者集团A没有提出这一点，并通过杂志而不是通过字嘴。期刊B不知道他们所指的纸张。

Questions for the Forum

• Is there a case to answer here?
• Should the editor of journal B advise author group A (who remain anonymous to journal B, and who can only be contacted through one of the editors of journal B)
  他们应该正式向期刊B正式报告问题，以便可以调查
  作为发布的稿件中的抄袭案件？
• What measures can journal B take to help prevent this happening in the future
  (eg, better training for editors and reviewers to identify the issue)?

作者联系作者作者有publishe Bd a paper several years ago that contained verbatim text of author A’s previously published work. The verbatim work was cited but presented to the readers as paraphrased from the original. Similarity checking software showed that the paraphrased text was too close to the original text; in fact, it was quoted verbatim.

Author A is demanding that author B request the publisher to remove all of the text used from author A’s published work. Removing all of author A’s work from author B’s published manuscript equates to 8% of the text. The text to be removed would be the ‘paraphrased text' and the reference list entries to author A's work.

作者A提出的担忧验证从发布的工作中删除案文的删除是，虽然作者A的名称埋在那些从他们的工作中取出的短语，判决和整个段落的部分中，但实际的段落是没有标记为报价（通过引号，缩进或以任何其他方式）;因此，印象是提升的段落是最好的，作者B自己的话语，或者更糟糕的是，作者B正在释放作者A的话。但是也是真的。这些是来自作者A的工作中的整个段落。对作者A的工作中所包含的单词的互联网搜索被错误而欺诈地显示为属于作者B.

Question(s) for the Forum

• How can the publisher correct the publication record in this instance?
• Should the publisher retract the paper or publish a corrigendum?

An article was submitted to our journal (journal A) in March. According to the journal’s working policy, the article was initially reviewed inhouse and comments were sent to the author. The authors replied to the comments but did not agree to the suggestion to convert the article to a short report. A rather impolite letter was sent by the author criticising the policies of the journal. We sent a reply that if the authors were not happy with the journal’s decision, they could withdraw the article according to the guidelines which are clearly given on our website.

The authors did not follow the journal procedures for withdrawing the article—they did not submit the withdrawal form signed by all authors. According to journal policy, the copyright of any manuscript remains with the journal, unless it is withdrawn in the proper manner.

The authors submitted the article to another local journal (journal B) where it was immediately published.

由于文件未在A Chinesh A关闭，因此将多个提醒发送给作者。如果作者不再对发布感兴趣，我们希望从数据库中删除该文件。作者写信给这篇文章于7月份发表。

We first wrote to the authors that this was unethical and amounted to dual submission. We again received a rather impolite reply. We then wrote to the editor of the journal in which the article was published. Apparently, this journal does not ask for a non-submission undertaking from the authors. The editor was quite vague in his reply. We sent him the details of dual submission to which he sent a two line reply asking as to what should be done. We suggested that the copyright of the article is still with us so he should remove the article from the journal’s website until the article is withdrawn in the correct manner. The editor has not taken any steps and the article is still displayed on the other journal’s website.

Question(s) for the COPE Forum

• Should we do nothing about the authors’ wrongdoing?
• 如果没有采取任何行动，它会鼓励作者在未来的行为中，为了方便起见
• Should we pursue the matter with the editor of the journal who has made the mistake but is not responding.