We submitted an article to a journal, which subjected it to a plagiarism test. Afterward, we withdrew the paper and submitted it to a different journal, only to discover it now has a very high plagiarism score. We've attempted to contact the previous journal to remove it from their repository but have received no response. What can we do now?
Does the original journal subscribe to COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics? If so, notify them that if you do not receive a satisfactory reply, then you will open a case with COPE.
Dear Reama George Which repository (and journal) you talk about? In general journals do not have their own repository but use one that is loosely or fully linked to the publisher:
SSRN - Elsevier
Preprints.org- MDPI
Research Square - SpringerNature, IEEE, etc.
Authorea - Wiley
Advance - SAGE
etc.
'Normally' (though they are reluctant to do so) a request to retract the preprint is enough to get your publication to be removed.
Best regards.
Thank you for your responses. David L Morgan In COPE I found a case similar to mine (https://publicationethics.org/case/authors-requesting-withdrawal-articles-similarity-check-database-order-re-publish). Unlike this case, we withdrew our paper because we're unable at the time to carry out certain additional experiments as requested by the one of the Reviewers.
Rob Keller At this moment I would rather not mention the name of the journal but they used Turnitin for the plagiarism test and is registered under a university as a student paper.
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