Prevention and response
Percentage who support strategy | ||
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Strategy | Editors (N=71) | Authors (N=64) |
*The percentage of respondents who answered “don’t know” to the question was between 10% and 20%. | ||
†The percentage of respondents who answered “don’t know” to the question was greater than 20%. | ||
Prevention by identifying overlapping manuscripts during peer review | ||
request that peer reviewers notify editors about potential overlap | 99 | 94 |
require that authors sign statements denying or disclosing overlap | 93 | 94 |
request that authors submit articles that potentially overlap | 89 | 77 |
arrange with other journals to impose sanctions on authors of redundant articles | 62* | 64* |
perform bibliographic searches for overlapping articles | 34† | 59* |
Response to redundant publications | ||
notify authors | 100 | 98 |
notify other journal | 93 | 80 |
publish a notice of redundant publication for readers | 79* | 66 |
impose restrictions on author’s future submissions | 68† | 39† |
inform institution where author works | 66† | 42* |
inform indexing services | 62† | 52* |
inform funding source of the research | 42† | 33* |