Prevention and response
| Percentage who support strategy | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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* |