Journal ArticleDOI
Plagiarism in Predatory Publications: A Comparative Study of Three Nursing Journals
TLDR
A substantial level of plagiarism via duplicate publications in the three analyzed predatory journals is found, further diluting credible scientific literature and risking the ability to synthesize evidence accurately to inform practice.Abstract:
PURPOSE This study compared three known predatory nursing journals to determine the percentage of content among them that was plagiarized or duplicated. A serendipitous finding of several instances of plagiarism via duplicate publications during the random analysis of articles in a study examining the quality of articles published in predatory journals prompted this investigation. DESIGN The study utilized a descriptive, comparative design. All articles in each journal (n = 296 articles) from inception (volume 1, number 1) through May 1, 2017, were analyzed. METHODS Each article was evaluated and scored electronically for similarity using an electronic plagiarism detection tool. Articles were then individually reviewed, and exact and near exact matches (90% or greater plagiarized content) were paired. Articles with less than 70% plagiarized scores were randomly sampled, and an in-depth search for matches of partial content in other journals was conducted. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the data. FINDINGS The extent and direction of duplication from one given journal to another was established. Changes made in subsequent publications, as a potential distraction to identify plagiarism, were also identified. There were 100 (68%) exact and near exact matches in the paired articles. The time lapse between the original and duplicate publication ranged from 0 to 63 months, with a mean of 27.2 months (SD =19.68). Authors were from 26 countries, including Africa, the United States, Turkey, and Iran. Articles with similarity scores in the range of 20% to 70% included possible similarities in content or research plagiarism, but not to the extent of the exact or near exact matches. The majority of the articles (n = 94) went from Journal A or C to Journal B, although four articles were first published in Journal B and then Journal A. CONCLUSIONS This study found a substantial level of plagiarism via duplicate publications in the three analyzed predatory journals, further diluting credible scientific literature and risking the ability to synthesize evidence accurately to inform practice. Editors should continue to use electronic plagiarism detection tools. Education about publishing misconduct for editors and authors is a high priority. CLINICAL RELEVANCE Both contributors and consumers of nursing literature rely on integrity in publication. Authors expect appropriate credit for their scholarly contributions without unethical and unauthorized duplication of their work. Readers expect current information from original authors, upon which they can make informed practice decisions.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Citations of articles in predatory nursing journals.
Marilyn H. Oermann,Leslie H. Nicoll,Heather Carter-Templeton,Amanda Woodward,Paulo Kidayi,Lauren B. Neal,Alison H. Edie,Kathleen S. Ashton,Peggy L. Chinn,Sathya Amarasekara +9 more
TL;DR: Education and information may help authors and reviewers identify predatory journals, thereby discouraging submissions to these publications and hesitancy among authors to cite articles published in them.
Journal ArticleDOI
Pitfalls and Misconducts in Medical Writing.
TL;DR: The objective of medical research is the quest for scientific truth, as well as the communication of new knowledge to the medical society through publication of novel results, which relies on the trust that all persons involved remain honest, following the rules and ethics of scientific integrity.
Journal ArticleDOI
Are predatory journals contaminating science? An analysis on the Cabells' Predatory Report
Sümeyye Akça,Müge Akbulut +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of 17 journals with addresses in Turkey in Cabells' Predatory Report (formerly Cabells" Journal Blacklist) to the literature were examined, and the journal and article level descriptive statistics were examined for the aforementioned journals, and analyses were made for the citations from the papers published in the journals indexed in the Web of Science citation database.
Journal ArticleDOI
Analysis of Citation Patterns and Impact of Predatory Sources in the Nursing Literature
Marilyn H. Oermann,Leslie H. Nicoll,Kathleen S. Ashton,Alison H. Edie,Sathya Amarasekara,Peggy L. Chinn,Heather Carter-Templeton,Leila Ledbetter +7 more
TL;DR: Nurse authors should not publish their work in predatory journals and should avoid citing articles from these journals, which disseminates the content through the scholarly nursing literature, according to this study.
Journal ArticleDOI
Plagiarism detection and prevention: a primer for researchers.
Olena Zimba,Armen Yuri Gasparyan +1 more
TL;DR: Medical researchers and authors may improve their writing skills and avoid the same errors by consulting the list of retractions due to plagiarism which are tracked on the PubMed platform and discussed on the Retraction Watch blog.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications
TL;DR: A detailed review of all 2,047 biomedical and life-science research articles indexed by PubMed as retracted on May 3, 2012 revealed that only 21.3% of retractions were attributable to error, compared with 67.4% attributable to misconduct, including fraud or suspected fraud, duplicate publication, and plagiarism.
Journal ArticleDOI
Potential predatory and legitimate biomedical journals: can you tell the difference? A cross-sectional comparison.
Larissa Shamseer,Larissa Shamseer,David Moher,David Moher,onyi maduekwe,Lucy Turner,Virginia Barbour,Rebecca Burch,Jocalyn Clark,James Galipeau,Jason R Roberts,Beverley Shea +11 more
TL;DR: 13 evidence-based characteristics by which predatory journals may potentially be distinguished from presumed legitimate journals are identified may be useful for authors who are assessing journals for possible submission or for others, such as universities evaluating candidates’ publications as part of the hiring process.
Journal ArticleDOI
Study of Predatory Open Access Nursing Journals.
Marilyn H. Oermann,Jamie L. Conklin,Leslie H. Nicoll,Peggy L. Chinn,Kathleen S. Ashton,Alison H. Edie,Sathya Amarasekara,Susan C. Budinger +7 more
TL;DR: Predatory journals exist in nursing and bring with them many of the "red flags" that have been noted in the literature, including lack of transparency about editorial processes and misleading information promoted on websites.
Journal ArticleDOI
The ethics of scholarly publishing: exploring differences in plagiarism and duplicate publication across nations
TL;DR: While the United States retracted the most papers, China retracted theMost papers for plagiarism and duplicate publication were highest in Italy and Finland, respectively.
Journal ArticleDOI
Quality of Articles Published in Predatory Nursing Journals
Marilyn H. Oermann,Leslie H. Nicoll,Peggy L. Chinn,Kathleen S. Ashton,Jamie L. Conklin,Alison H. Edie,Sathya Amarasekara,Brittany L. Williams +7 more
TL;DR: Nursing research published in predatory journals may appear legitimate by conforming to an expected structure, however, a lack of quality is apparent, representing inadequate peer review and editorial processes.