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- Hadas Shema
It's not what you publish, it's where you publish it http://survivingmyphd.blogspot.com/2010...
Kubke, Martin Fenner, Björn Brembs and 2 other people liked this
Excuse my ignorance, but isn't finding 4,500+ examples of "the same paper published twice" strong evidence of something else that has nothing to do with IF and a lot to do with ethics? If a *publisher* uses the same papers twice in two different journals, it's called fraud. What's it called when authors do it?
- Walt Crawford
Self-plagiarism - this is exactly what struck me as well: Wow! That many self-copycats?! This is really bad.
- Bora Zivkovic
I'm not even bothered (that much) by self-plagiarism anymore. In my workplace we organize a conference once a year, and see pretty much the same abstracts from the same people like the other major Israeli e-learning conference (it's Israel, we only have two major ones a year). It's like people go on a tour with their research.
- Hadas Shema
And those 4500 are just the ones that could be auto-detected, if I understand the description of the original paper (which I dnr). Try looking for the number of times a group has published parts of one paper as whole papers elsewhere, or published basically the same review of their last 4-5 papers under two or three different titles -- the sorts of things you need a human to detect. The...
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- Bill Hooker
I have a vague recollection of a group actually deliberately publishing duplicate papers to test some of this but can't remember the names. I doubt they would have got up to 4500 tho
- Cameron Neylon
we talked about this paper when it was up on ArXiv a while ago, btw.
- Christina Pikas
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