J Korean Med Sci.  2017 Feb;32(2):183-185. 10.3346/jkms.2017.32.2.183.

Plagiarism Continues to Affect Scholarly Journals

• Hong ST

• KMID: 2364160
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2017.32.2.183

Abstract

I have encountered 3 cases of plagiarism as editor of the Journal of Korean Medical Science (JKMS). The first one was copying figures from a JKMS article without citation, the second was submission of a copied manuscript of a published article to JKMS, and the third was publishing a copied JKMS article in another journal. The first and third cases violated copyrights of JKMS, but the violating journals made no action on the misconduct. The second and third cases were slightly modified copies of the source articles but similarity check by the Crosscheck could not identify the text overlap initially and after one year reported 96% overlap for the second case. The similarity of the third case was reported 3%. The Crosscheck must upgrade its system for better reliable screening of text plagiarism. The copy of the second case was committed by a corrupt Chinese editing company and also by some unethical researchers. In conclusion, plagiarism still threatens the trustworthiness of the publishing enterprises and is a cumbersome burden for editors of scholarly journals. We require a better system to increase the vigilance and to prevent the misconduct.

Keyword

Plagiarism; Copy; Crosscheck; Similarity Check; Retraction; Editors; Scholarly Journals

MeSH Terms

Asian Continental Ancestry Group
Copyright
Humans
Mass Screening
Plagiarism*

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