Duplication Publication

Duplicate publication is also known as multiple publications, or redundant publication refers to publishing the same intellectual material more than once by the author. It occurs when an author reuses many parts of their published work without providing the appropriate references.

This kind of error work ranges from publishing an identical paper in several journals to adding a small amount of new data to an already published portion. To avoid duplication, the author could include the multiple implications in a single article in a widely distributed journal. For example, the the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology can publish in both the  Circulationand theJournal of the American College of Cardiology.

This type of dual publication is similar to co-editions of a book. With the help of new advancements in technology, there are now several tools available to help detect multiple publications within biomedical literature. A tool developed in 2006 by the researchers in Harold Garner‘s laboratory known as Déjà Vu, an open-access to the database that contains several thousand instances of duplicate publication.

References

  1. Bik, E. M., Fang, F. C., Kullas, A. L., Davis, R. J., & Casadevall, A. (2018). Analysis and correction of inappropriate image duplication: the Molecular and Cellular Biology Experience. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 38(20).
  2. Honeyman-Buck, J. (2016). Redundant Publication—How to Avoid Duplication. Journal of digital imaging, 29(1), 1.

Moher, D., Booth, A., & Stewart, L. (2014). How to reduce unnecessary duplication: use PROSPERO. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 121(7), 784-786.