The publication of a study design may help to reduce the problem of publication bias, i.e. selective publication of positive associations and disregarding negative and weak associations, prevent unnecessary duplication of research efforts and duplicate publication [ 25].
The article was examined following the COPE guidelines with regard to suspected redundant (duplicate) publication and was indeed found to be a duplication of the following previously published article: Odeja OO, Obi G, Ogwuche CE, Elemike EE, Oderinlo OO (2014).
Significance: Duplicate publication is an example of inappropriate academic conduct.
Duplicate publication across different specialties was noted to account for 4% of the instances.
Artificial segmentation of a single study into multiple arbitrary segments composed 20% of the duplicate publication.
Conclusions: The most common duplicate publication involves sequential publication of very similar data and conclusions.
That would prevent the premature publication of half-finished work and duplicate publication.
Objective: This study establishes the approximate prevalence and patterns of duplicate publication in the medical literature in the specialty of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery.
According to a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, two-thirds of all retractions follow from scientific misconduct: fraud, duplicate publication and plagiarism.
Duplicate publication, sometimes called self-plagiarism, occurs when an author reuses substantial parts of his or her own published work without providing the appropriate references.
The titles of these articles were then screened for similar titles, and when similarities were noted, the complete articles were obtained when possible and compared for the degree and pattern of duplicate publication.
