Paul mentioned that they were both published, two months apart, in the same journal. I would be interested in knowing if the editors might have changed and the duplication was due to an error in the handing off of duties from one editor to the next. I can’t imagine one editor forgetting that they had published the same paper two months earlier.
Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Box 3055 x7295 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tinyurl.com/DrFroman Proverbs 14:15 "A simple man believes anything, but a prudent man gives thought to his steps." From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 10:29 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] info Hi Paul, I would contact the editor of each journal and let them know about your discovery. If they are, indeed, an instance of duplicate publication or simply two papers with different data sharing a lot of text in common, the editors will, in turn, contact, the authors' institutions. In these situations, it is typically the institution that handles the investigation. Miguel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul C Bernhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:50:10 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [tips] info A student and I stumbled upon two identical papers with slightly different titles published in the same journal two months apart. The assignment was for the students to find two papers on a topic of interest and compare and contrast the researcher’s findings in the two papers. I didn’t rule out the papers being from the same authors. He came to me to ask if the paper he’d found was a good one and I told him it was, but he was having trouble finding a second paper. So, we did some PsyInfo searching and found a second paper by the same authors, then after about a minute’s reading realized the paper was, word for word, identical. I was stunned. There was no indication that it was a major revision because of an error in the first version, there were no material differences between the two versions at all. In the back of my mind I was thinking: “I’ll bet these jokers are claiming two pubs in their CV.” -- Paul Bernhardt Frostburg State University Frostburg, MD, USA On 10/27/08 12:52 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]<http://sz0141.wc.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/public/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<http://sz0141.wc.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/public/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: If a prof publishes the same article in two different journals,should this be counted as two publications? I knew a colleague who published the same study in two different journals but he submitted two different titles . Is there an ethical issue here? I should have reported this to his tenure committee. Michael Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]<http://sz0141.wc.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/public/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
