Duplicates were removed where there was more than one article reporting on the same study since the reviewers wanted to avoid skewing the review by including multiple papers reporting on the same or similar findings.
Those suggesting that self-plagiarism is acceptable argue that it is a normal part of the scientific process; after all, researchers may write multiple papers based on the same project and how many different ways can an author describe the same methods?
Every expert reviewer evaluated, and improved, multiple papers, and several commented on all 11 of them.
There have been multiple papers and reviews focusing on protein interaction method comparison; however, we chose not to directly compare to other methods for multiple reasons.
If multiple papers are published based on the same or overlapping data sets, then only the paper with the largest number of specimens, the most detailed results and the longest follow-up time is included.
This evidence could come from multiple papers and was based on simply checking which tests had the requisite ticks in Additional file 2 [see Additional file 2] and collating the information from the data extraction forms.
Because I am a historian who works surrounded by multiple papers, they tend to accumulate on the surface of my two desks round the lap-top without which I could no longer function, having been shamed into the computer-era in the late 1980s by my students in New York.
On occasion, multiple papers, often by the same authors, discussed the same processes and these were combined to remove duplication.
When we spoke recently, I presented him with multiple papers from different labs, from studies on the heredity of talent in twins to genetics papers on specific gene variants implicated in performance.
