Cureus describe themselves as ..
"Cureus is the Open Access medical journal for a new generation of doctors, researchers and patients with a mission to eliminate barriers to the generation and dissemination of medical knowledge. Based in San Francisco, California, Cureus leverages the power of an online, crowdsourced community platform to share and promote published medical knowledge around the world. The result? Better research, faster publication and access for everyone. No paywalls. No red tape."
However, many colleagues started to complain about their mandatory paid editing services and subjective editors?
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Honestly speaking I have no experience with cureus... But um intereseted to learn not only abt my field but other fields also to have a broad vision about this world.....
@John Adler
Another instance of plagiarism that is completely missed by the reviewers and quality control staff of Cureus. This shows that the entire process is rigged. The reviewers do not care and cureus takes a small fee for editing.
I was doing a literature review on multiple sclerosis and I found this study in the Cureus Journal of medical sciences published on 19th May 2021.
Title: Nutritional and Biochemical Parameters Among Multiple Sclerosis Patients: A Case-Control Study Link:
https://www.cureus.com/articles/59419-nutritional-and-biochemical-parameters-among-multiple-sclerosis-patients-a-case-control-study
I found a similar study published in Neurology India (another PubMed Indexed Journal) that is published a year before (August 2020).
Title: A Controlled Descriptive Study to Determine the Nutritional Status and Biochemical Parameters of Multiple Sclerosis Patients Link:
https://www.neurologyindia.com/article.asp?issn=0028-3886;year=2020;volume=68;issue=4;spage=867;epage=874;aulast=Akbay
The results, figures, and the decision tree model of both of these studies are almost exactly the same. The texts in the methodology, introduction, and discussion also bear a striking resemblance. I double-checked it because I wasn't sure that the publishing department of Cureus was going to miss this. This is a huge concern for the medical publishing community and strict action should be taken against the authors who try to copy the work of others
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