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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Puducherry, 605006, India

    Subhash Chandra Parija & Jharna Mandal

  2. Department of Microbiology, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore, India

    Dinoop Korol Poonambath

  3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, India

    Ajay Halder

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

    Subhash Chandra Parija

  2. Department of Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

    Vikram Kate

Case Scenario (Handling Plagiarism)

Case Scenario (Handling Plagiarism)

The editor in chief of a reputed journal gets an email communication regarding plagiarized content in one of the original articles published in the recent issues of the journal. The reader mentions that most of the content has been copied from an article published in another reputed journal of the same specialty. As an editor,

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    How will you proceed further and handle this issue?

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    What is the impact of such issues to the journal and to the society?

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    What preventive action would you incorporate to avoid such issues in future?

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    Are there any recommendations/guidelines which are to be followed while encountering such issues?

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Parija, S.C., Mandal, J., Poonambath, D.K., Halder, A. (2017). Ethical Dilemmas and Etiquettes of Scientific Publication. In: Parija, S., Kate, V. (eds) Writing and Publishing a Scientific Research Paper. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4720-6_18

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