Comment on Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions by Gerald Dorey
A lttle tricky if the authors freely decided to publish first in the Science Publications journal as implied. If so, the Springer journal has little claim and should retract; if not, it is theft with...
View ArticleComment on Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions by F. Pessoa
Surley the later publication should go?
View ArticleComment on Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions by Claudia Holland
I agree with Gerald. The authors should not be allowed a choice. They knew what they were doing was unethical. The retraction should be by Springer.
View ArticleComment on Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions by Jeffrey Beall
Thank you for this excellent discussion. I did not look at the situation from the perspective of retracting the first-published article, but I think the points being made in favor of this are very good...
View ArticleComment on Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions by Claudia Holland
I agree. The authors should not be allowed to choose which publication should be retracted. Submission of the paper to another journal, after the fact, was unethical. Springer should retract AND be...
View ArticleComment on Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions by Robin Hood
In my opinion, all the options are incorrect. If indeed the authors are guilty of double submission, then BOTH publishers have the moral responsibility of removing the papers. Springer only thinks...
View ArticleComment on Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions by Guria
You hit the nail on the head :)
View ArticleComment on Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions by Guido
I don’t agree with this reasoning. The aim of retractions should be to keep the academic literature clean of fraudulent or duplicated papers, not to punish unethical authors (or publishers). If the...
View ArticleComment on Research by Jeorge Lewis
Plz consider the evaluation of the journal “International Journal of Energy & Technology” http://www.journal-enertech.eu/ According to your criteria along with my own experience, it is far more...
View ArticleComment on Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions by Matt Hodgkinson
1. Charging for retraction is indeed unethical. Is the Editor-in-Chief, Mohammad Masoum, aware of this practice? http://ece.curtin.edu.au/people/m_masoum.cfm If he is and approves of it, you should...
View ArticleComment on Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions by A Khan
Would you mind to explain that why Springer will not be included in your list? See some of previous cases: Reason 1. Publication of plagiarized paper...
View ArticleComment on Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions by Martin
It is obviously unethical for an author to submit the same paper to two journals. What is much more worrisome is that Springer publishes a paper that has already been published in another journal. If...
View ArticleComment on Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions by R V Krishnakumar
Inadequate literature survey may lead to genuine situations like this. But, then the Editors are supposed to be more smarter than the authors. So, I agree with Guido. The later one should go without...
View ArticleComment on Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions by naser
I see the authors published their paper first in American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences and then by Springer. Therefore, we must blame Authors the most since they submit two paper almost...
View ArticleComment on Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions by Nils
This is not the issue. Any journal can be the victim of unethical scientists, though a serious peer review process can help limiting the risk of this to happen. However, a serious journal should have a...
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View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Peter Nonacs
I have a specific comment/question about Ashdin Publishing on the predatory list. Recently we published an article in their Journal of Evolutionary Medicine. The editorial board has real people, who...
View ArticleComment on Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions by George
Very interesting discussion. Is a bogus journal a real academic journal? how if the reason why the authors retracted their paper is because they just aware if the first journal is a bogus journal?
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