Table 4

Prevention and response

Percentage who support strategy
StrategyEditors
 (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 overlap9994
    require that authors sign statements denying or disclosing overlap9394
    request that authors submit articles that potentially overlap8977
    arrange with other journals to impose sanctions on authors of redundant articles62*64*
    perform bibliographic searches for overlapping articles34†59*
Response to redundant publications
    notify authors10098
    notify other journal9380
    publish a notice of redundant publication for readers79*66
    impose restrictions on author’s future submissions68†39†
    inform institution where author works66†42*
    inform indexing services62†52*
    inform funding source of the research42†33*