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Duplicate publication in the nursing literature
Author(s) -
Blancett Suzanne Smith,
Flanagin Annette,
Young Roxanne K.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1995.tb00813.x
Subject(s) - sample (material) , nursing literature , information retrieval , medicine , library science , computer science , alternative medicine , pathology , chromatography , chemistry
Summary. The purpose of this study was to identify examples of duplicate publication in the nursing literature and determine what types of duplicate articles are published. From the sample of 642 articles published by 77 authors during a 5‐year period, 181 articles were classified as duplicate. Forty‐one authors published at least one form of duplicate article. Fifty‐nine duplicate articles did not reference the primary article. Duplicate publication itself is not unethical, but duplicate publication without referencing duplicate work is unethical and may violate copyright law.