HOW this Paper has been accepted /published by ELSEVIER?
So many questions in mind.
It is very difficult to control such papers.
As an associate editor of a journal, I know that many people ( mainly research scholars) send almost same paper together to some journals. So, the material can pass the plagiarism test.
But when more than one journal select the paper, the authors silently agreed for publication in both/all the journals!
There should be some provision for punishment for such actions of the authors.
Thanks.
Hi,
This could happen if the editors and referees are not alert enough to publications in their research field.
Hi,
You could use this link to find some answers to your queries> https://retractionwatch.com/
It is very difficult to control such papers.
As an associate editor of a journal, I know that many people ( mainly research scholars) send almost same paper together to some journals. So, the material can pass the plagiarism test.
But when more than one journal select the paper, the authors silently agreed for publication in both/all the journals!
There should be some provision for punishment for such actions of the authors.
Thanks.
As an associated editor of some journals , i totally agree with the answer of Dr Shibabrata Pattanayak
Researchers need to avoid such situations.Research paper need to be submitted for review to one journal only. However, in case of non acceptance, one may try in other journals.
I believe the problem is not from the journal but from the multiple submission by the author. However, Journals should also speed up the processes involve in publication and also communicate regularly with author. I currently have an article accepted for publication over four month ago and since then no information despite three different mails to the Editor and I can no longer track it on their website. Sometime frustrating, going through research for months, publication process for months and accepted without publication with no information for months. To be honest, I am being tempted to summit it to another journal.
Prabhjot Kaur you have done good job congratulation first of all that ELSEVIER who is considered himself a reputed publisher in the world how this paper first published and then retracted. If we have strong anti-plagiarism tools wherein large database size of already published literature is available and strong review process if they are following in spite of this 100% plagiarized papers how they can publish? Review process by this publication house is a questionable? That need to be black listed…
Researchers must be very cautious regarding plagiarism. Much needed discussion..
Thanku all the dear ones for their valuable contribution in this discussion matter.
The paper may be submitted to both the journal simultaneously. Plagiarism test may be conducted by both, but ad the paper was not online and was not detected by the software.
it maybe happened because of inaccuracy of plagiarism software. In addition, the mentioned software were in early stages of development.
Generally plagiarism is not detected at the level of peer reviewers as reviewers usually concentrate on the manuscript content rather than comparing it with available literature. But with the advent of Plagiarism checking software comparison of a paper with previously published articles collected in a database has become easier for the editors. This appears to be a case of negligence at editor's level. This may also happen when the same paper is miserably submitted to more than one journals simultaneously as mentioned by Dr Pattanayak.
Do visit my thread. It is related research question with many answers and resources.
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_it_possible_to_publish_a_noteworthy_paper_in_a_Journal_Why_should_one_do_it
This is very serous issue. I think the review process of the journal need to be optimized to take care of this problem.
Paper with 100% textual similarity detected to others first published and then withdraw is not mannerism in today’s digital information era matter to be enquire adequately by the existing rule.
Due to carelessness of Editors and Reviewers this may happen.
This is Unfortunate.
It should never happen.
It is possible if both the reviewers and the editors did not check for similarity index but were only concerned about the contents of the manuscript.
Authors should not be this desperate in publications. Carry out original research and publish.
Lack of rigorous review on the part of handling editors and reviewers could cause this.
This is just shocking, with the high regard given journals from Elsevier, this should not have happened. The retraction begs the question.
Dear Prabhjot Kaur, honestly, if this is intentional, the authors simply dented their image and that of their institution. This will hunt them for a very long time! A serious minded institution wouldn't take this funny. On the other hand, the editors did a very bad job (Predator-in-Chief: Wolves in Editors’ Clothing). This will also hunt them for a long time. It would have been worst if their names are in the paper too. I think is high time there should be a universal adoption of the inclusion of the names of editors and reviewers in each article. This will help make editors and reviewers serious and accountable for what they approve and help stem out predatorship too. See the links to the article:
1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2018.05.055
2. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-017-0060-5
As an author, you have to check what you write. There are so many softwares including those that are free to use. Personally I was introduced to plagiarism checker x software and since then I have been recommending it to authors and editors because it really works and save you a lot of cost ($39.95 for a lifetime) https://plagiarismcheckerx.com/partners/plagxec/redirect
This is mainly because the journal publishers are looking for profit, and the editors of the journal don't have the necessary expertise in the particular field of study.
Thanks and Regards to all the Respected RG members for their valuable response..
But the confusing thing is that the two papers have different titles, different authors, and even different countries/institutions "Pakistan and Switzerland"
There is another serious issue that will arise from the high publicity given to this case. This paper will receive undue citation thus giving wrong scholarly communication statistics of the paper's impact on the research community. This should be avoided by all parties at all cost. Everyone concerned may have one excuse or the other but whoever wins will not minimize the consequences on the global research community.
I am not surprised on this retraction. I have witnessed hundreds of such retracted articles in my area of materials processing in Elsevier for various reasons.
K. Domanski , E. A. Alharbi, A. Hagfeld, M. Grätzel, W. Tress, Systematic investigation of the impact of operation conditions on the degradation behaviour of perovskite solar cells, Nature Energy 3 (2018) 61-67. (Article 1)
Z. Aslam, H. Shahid, Z. Mehmood, Ageing effects of perovskite solar cells under different environmental factors and electrical load conditions, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 185 (2018) 471–476. (Article 2)
I went through the above two articles. Article 2 was retraced for plagiarizing Article 1. The following are my observations.
(1) Authors of both the articles are not same. They are from entirely different groups and have no connection between them. This fact rules out the frustration of authors for lengthy review period to submit the same article into multiple journals at a time.
(2) None of the authors of Article 2 are present in the editorial board of Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. This fact rules out any editorial scam.
(3) Article 2 presents the same figures of Article 1. What more, except article title, Article 2 copied the entire text of Article 1 word by word, sentence by sentence. It is a case of digital theft of another work as such. (Refer sample attachment)
(4) Article 1 final version was published online on 1st January 2018. Article 2 was submitted on 7th March 2018. The time difference is 2 months and 6 days. It would take at least 3-6 months for a newly published article to reflect on similarity index in software such as Turnitin, iThenticate etc. used by Elsevier. Hence, the handling editor passed the article to review blindly believing the results of iThenticate. Numerous articles are published on this hot topic of Solar Cells. It is impossible for an Editor to be updated on ALL articles in such a high traffic research area. However, Had the editor done google scholar search, it would have shown the similarity.
(5) Reviewers of Article 2 did not check the similarity. It appears that they also did not update themselves in the field. Unless a researcher constantly reads or glances research articles in his area, it is impossible to spot such theft. I am not aware of the number of reviewers used by Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells for each article. Some Elsevier journal seeks opinion of 5 or more reviewers for every article. If multiple reviewers were invited, it would have been possible to trace such serious plagiarism.
(6) Scopus profile of Article 2 authors showed few articles. This group is at infant stage. However, brought a disgrace to their profile and institution associated with. The institution should take appropriate measures to stop facing another embarrassment from the same or other group of authors under their affiliation. The authors should be aware that it is not possible to do such serious malpractice in this digital age. It was possible before 20 or 30 years ago. Since the reference section is also same for Article 1 and Article 2, all the referred authors would instantly get citation alerts from Scopus, Google Scholar and ResearchGate etc. the scam cannot be hidden for long time.
@Dr. Dinaharan
Your observations are interesting and well supported by facts.
Such research paper do not create respect for the author and only cause mental tension and departmental disrespect in the last.
So ultimately the loss is of author.
Some times due to long publication process it is also possible that two researchers arrives at similar outcomes.
This is a dangerous trend on the part of the authors and on the part of the publishers.
@dinaharan: such critital analysis should be encouraged on open research media like RG. Also these should be some grading or impact point for individual authors in a similar way like it is for the journals.
@shibabrata: I agree what you say but I believe the authors who submitted simultaneously to more that one journal don't just agree silently to both, because in any case they get a chance for revision after review. They have the option to turn down any one. But in any case simultaneous submission must be a crime
Translating an article from one language into another, even if both articles have the same content. Also the article may pass being checked for plagiarism by anti plagiarism program if it is well paraphrased by the writer. But if the article is checked by a keen writing carefully, he/ she will manage to detect the plagiarism in the paper.
There must be some common platform to submit an article for publication, so the submission of same kind of content in a number journal at a same time can be avoided/captured.
@Prabhjot Kaur thanks to raise such a serious issue
Publishing plagiarized article will spoil the reputation of the journals. It may hurt the knowledge building objective in science.
Insufficiency of intense review from the side of the editors, can result a such case.
I think there was some problem with plagiarism checking. If he paper wa already published in nature then it must be highlighted during initial screening.
Authors have to take care of such issues. They should submit manuscript in one journal at a time. When it refuses to publish, then go to another journal.
Plagerism is not only done by the early carrier researcher but in many cases it is done by others too. In a recent news in TOI a biochemist retreated 8 papers at a time. And some of his papers were published earlier 2005 in highly reputed Journal. Only sending a paper in many journal at same time is not the only issue sometime it is done delibrately to meet out the annual terget or sometime unintentionally. However these days publishers, Editors, reviewers and even authors are much aware about this issue and articles are screened immediately for palagarism after submmision. But it can be much improved when software like ithenticate etc will be freely available in public domain serious attention is taken by all the authors regarding this issue.
Plagiarism check should be the first step in technical processing of any paper submitted to a journal and such anomalies can be nipped in the bud.
This is the reviewers' conviction, editor and journal policy
There must be a certain kind of punishment for plagiarists as they violate the ethical rules for writing original research papers.
Judging from professional point of view, I believe the error was from the authors as a result of multiple submissions of the manuscript. Even journals of lower quality do not publish 100% plagiarism article.
I think that - in some cases - there is a lot of academic misconduct on ''both'' sides: the authors' and journals' (e.g. editors', reviewers'). Namely, some editors and journals are very ''slow'' - sometimes you need almost a year or even more to get the first editors' feedback. The authors are under the pressure - publish or perish - and that pressure could make them to do some type of plagiarism. It is very important to eliminate the pressure. Under the pressure, you can't know what the most honest people could do.
Usually when the clients subscription/license to a plagiarism checker such as Turnitin is expired, it falsely illustrate the similarity index 0% or on rare cases 100%. I don't think this report of 100% similar is accurate.
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Something is wrong. Please check again. I dont think such publisher made this error especially in plagiarism as there are many software for checking
There must be an error such as publishing the search in more than one magazine and the number of the magazine did not download on the website
Prabhjot Kaur -
In line with answer of Nisar K S , it seems to be a double submission.
Yes. Most probably it was double submission. Just wonder what happen to the first submission? If the paper is already accepted then the paper will be retracted too? Or not?
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