Duplicate Publication and 'Paper Inflation' in the Fractals Literature

Kostoff, Ronald N.; Johnson, Dustin; Río, J. A. del; Bloomfield, L. A.; Shlesinger, Michael F.; Malpohl, Guido

doi:10.21236/ada440622

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“…Duplicate publication is a tangential issue to our work: Our aim is not to analyze republications, but we were aware of the phenomenon, since some of the self-citations turned out to fall in that category, especially on the conference originals sample. Therefore, for the sake of completeness, we cursorily mention that studies on duplicate publication can be found mainly for medical sciences (von Elm, Poglia, Walder, & Tramer, 2004), but there is one study focusing on technological areas (Kostoff et al, 2006). Duplicate publishing generates an array of issues, like the inflation of some of the indices used for merit evaluation, not to mention the risk of copyright disputes, because often some of the authors are omitted in the republication, or the copyright of the original work belongs to the publisher.…”

Section: Self-citation Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

What happens to computer science research after it is published? Tracking CS research lines

Wainer

Valle

2013

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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Are computer science papers extended after they are published? We have surveyed 200 computer science publications, 100 journal articles, and 100 conference papers, using self‐citations to identify potential and actual continuations. We are interested in determining the proportion of papers that do indeed continue, how and when the continuation takes place, and whether any distinctions are found between the journal and conference populations. Despite the implicit assumption of a research line behind each paper, manifest in the ubiquitous “future research” notes that close many of them, we find that more than 70% of the papers are never continued.

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Section: Self-citation Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%