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A reviewer stole a manuscript and published it himself. But you wouldn’t know it from this retraction notice – Retraction Watch (Adam Marcus | February 2019)

Posted by saviorteam in Research Integrity on December 30, 2019
Keywords: Institutional responsibilities, International, Justice, Peer review, Publication ethics, Research integrity, Research Misconduct, Researcher responsibilities
The words 'Peer review' written across a glowing jigsaw puzzle piece

Fish off someone else’s peer review!

So writes (in somewhat different words) Mina Mehregan, a mechanical engineer at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in Iran. Mehregan and a colleague recently discovered that they’d been victimized by a group of unscrupulous reviewers who used the pretext of a long turnaround time to publish a hijacked version of their manuscript in another journal.

In a guest editorial for the Journal of Korean Medical Science — which wasn’t involved in the heist — Mehregan began by noting the toll that protracted peer review can take on authors:

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