Allegations of misconduct

Journal A accepted a manuscript with six authors in 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 from paper A.

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。

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。本文目前与作者在第一轮审查后正在修改论文，并需要额外的实验。