A Case of Plagiarism

Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research

“…For instance, as documented by Karabag and Berggren (2012), many economics and business journals appear not to even have explicit policies regarding ethics, plagiarism, or retraction, 23 and in many cases articles that have been retracted continue to be available on the journal's website without any indication that they have been retracted. For example, though Gerking and Morgan 21 Well-known plagiarism cases involve an article published in 1984 in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (see Chenault 1984 and Quarterly Journal of Economics 1984) and a case of plagiarism of an original article from Economics Innovation and New Technology for republication in Kyklos (Frey, Frey, and Eichenberger 1999). The most recent incident that seemed to attract significant attention was the submission of a substantively identical article to multiple journals within economics, which is also a serious lapse (Journal of Economic Perspectives 2011).…”

From the editor

“…For instance, in 1984, the editors of the Quarterly Journal of Economics published an editorial noting that a paper previously published in that journal was, ''with minor copy-editing differences,'' written by a different author (see QJE 1984, p. 383). In 1999, the editors of Kyklos wrote that a similar experience had occurred in that journal (see Frey et al 1999).…”

Editorial Ruminations: Publishing Kyklos

“…Our journal is, as are all other journals, affected by these developments. Kyklos has experienced a case of a clearly plagiarized article (documented in Frey, Frey and Eichenberger 1999).…”