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T1 Anatomy of scientific misconduct. Bibliotmetric analysis of the "Deja Vu" database
A1 García-Romero, Antonio
A1 Estrada, José M.
A1 Rodríguez-Vallejo, José M.
AB Scientific misconduct is a worrying problem whose incidence is increasing due to the increasingly competitiveresearch environment in many countries. Deja Vu is a publicly available database of highly similar citationsidentified by eTBLAST from PubMed. We performed a bibliometric analysis of 116 pairs of duplicatedpublications whose earlier papers were published in the period 2004-2005. We selected all the cases that havebeen confirmed by experts. Our aim was to determine to what extent the duplicates with shared authors (SA) aredifferent from those with different authors (DA) in terms of citations and other relevant variables. To this extent,we hope to contribute to a better understanding of the scientific misconduct problem. Our results reveal thatthere is a clear differentiation between the two types of publications. In the case of papers with different authors,the duplicates received fewer citations than the duplicates with shared authors. Moreover, the DA duplicates arepublished with a delay of two years on average, one year more than that for SA duplicates. This pattern suggeststhat fraudulent scientists try to hide their scientific misconduct.
PB International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
PB Leiden University
PB University of Zululand
SN 978-90-817527-0-1
YR 2011
FD 2011
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/12664
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/12664
LA eng
NO 13th Conference of the international Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics. Durban, South Africa. July 4-7, 2011.
DS e-Archivo
RD 17 jul. 2024