Analysis of publication situation of rejected manuscript due to multiple submissions in medical manuscripts

Subjects: Digital Publishing >> Internet Journals submitted time 2024-02-23

yujing wujiajia sunhuilan xujie gaoguoquan

Abstract： [Purposes] To enhance the ability of medical journal editors to identify suspected academic misconduct in submitting multiple manuscripts, and to provide reference for improving the accuracy of initial review of manuscripts. [Methods] The research object is the multiple contributions and rejected manuscripts of Journal of Sun Yat-sen University (Medical Sciences) from January 2021 to December 2021. we track the publication status of manuscripts, analyze the behavior of submitting multiple manuscripts, republish journal issues and selected databases status, and construct a portrait of the first author group suspected of submitting multiple academic misconduct manuscripts. [Findings] In 2021, a total of 91 suspected academic misconduct manuscripts were published after rejected, of which 55 had changes in the authors’ name and affiliation at the time of publication. Out of 91 manuscript, 77 (84.6%) were published in various core journals: 27 (29.7%) were published in Peking University core journals, 17 (18.7%) were published in CSCD indexed journals, and 68 (74.7%) were published in CSTPCD indexed journals. The portrait of the first author group of 214 suspected academic misconduct manuscripts with multiple submissions has the following characteristics. 60% of this population is male and 40% is female; 54% hold intermediate titles and 34% hold deputy senior professional titles, but there are also some students on campus. The vast majority of educational qualifications are undergraduate and master's degrees. Most of them are concentrated in tertiary hospitals in non provincial capitals and municipalities directly under the central government. Most of them are clinical doctors, mainly distributed in internal medicine, surgery, and imaging departments. [Conclusions] It is recommended that medical journals strictly implement the three reviews and three schools, and prevent academic misconduct by establishing a technical process for detecting academic misconduct, strengthening academic integrity education for authors, and establishing an academic integrity alliance to share academic misconduct data.

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