I submitted a paper last April and currently, it is undergoing a second review after submitting the revised version. However, recently I found that a similar paper was published while mine is under review. So will they reject it because of that even though my paper was submitted before the published one but yet it is under review?
Thanks
Ahed
Please be specific. what do you mean by similar paper? From the same institution? Same dataset? etc...
No the paper is a review article and the similar one has a close content
No, you are safe. It does feel unfair though. It happened to me too, but thankfully I published a month before the other paper. In my case, my data was given by a staff member to someone else, eek
It is very rare, nay impossible, for the two papers to be identical. Unless one has resorted to plagiarism. The aim may be same but the writeup, methodology, results and conclusions are bound to be different. Hopefully, reviewer will draw your attention to the other paper and ask you to refer it. Even if the reviewer does not draw your attention, you better refer it in your work.
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