Doppelte Publikationen und Plagiate: Ursachen und Gegenmittel

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Duplicate publication and plagiarism are often referred to in a similar context, but their origins, issues, and remedies are substantially different. When an author intentionally or unintentionally republishes his or her own work without informing the editor of the previous publication, the result is duplicate publication. Duplicate publication is a form of redundant publication and refers to publication of an article’s content, which has substantial overlaps with one΄s paper already published in print or electronically [1]. Duplicate publication often violates copyright law and, in the case of multiply published studies, distorts results of meta-analyses, because if the duplication is not detected the results of the duplicate publications influence the meta-analyses results more than would a single publication [2, 3]. …