Library Progress (International)
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 40
  • Issue: 1

Some views and suggestions of possible measures on how to check the duplicate submission and the issue of willful plagiarism of research papers

*Department of Mathematics, Municipal Post Graduate College, Mussoorie, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 248179, India.

*Corresponding Author: Lalit Mohan Upadhyaya, Department of Mathematics, Municipal Post Graduate College, Mussoorie, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 248179, India. E-mail: lmupadhyaya@rediffmail.com, hetchres@gmail.com

Online published on 10 August, 2020.

Abstract

In this paper the author addresses two ethical issues concerning the duplicate submission of a research manuscript for publication to more than one Journal by the same author and he also narrates here his own real story of plagiarism of the results of his Ph.D. thesis and Preprints with a very well known and in a sense, a trivial modification which was very well settled in the research literature beforehand and he suggests some possible measures to curb such highly unethical academic malpractices which are rampant in the present scenario of research. The author also invokes the Entire World Scientific Research Academia to wage a united and relentless war against such unethical practices that have crept into the system of Research Publication at a large scale now. This paper is written by the author on his receiving a reference from the prestigious Asian Council of Science Editors to seek his expert opinion in connection with a case of duplicate submission of a research paper by the same author to two journals after the paper was first published in a journal.

Keywords

Duplicate Submission, Plagiarism, Ph.D. Thesis, Preprints, University Grants Commission (UGC), COPE, Asian Council Of Science Editors (ACSE), Research And Publication Ethics (RPE)