Subject: Re: (off-topic) self-plagiarism From: "Michael H. Coen" <mhcoen@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:06:05 -0500 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Perhaps let the editors of the journal take action. As a reviewer, one is typically bound to reveal nothing about papers under review. I have certainly rejected papers with the comment, "This has already been published x times before," providing all x citations. (Although I've never seen x > 2.) That, and a separate communication to the journal's editors, seems reasonable. Michael Peter Lennox wrote: > You could post the paper (or indeed, the previous ones) to the Turnitin website if you have an account, - this will document areas of coincidence and, even if the paper is then taken down, future versions will be checked against it and receive a correspondingly high coincidence score > Regards > ppl > > Dr Peter Lennox > > Director of Signal Processing and Applications Research Group (SPARG) > School of Technology, > Faculty of Arts, design and Technology University of Derby, UK > > p.lennox@xxxxxxxx > (01332) 593155 > http://sparg.derby.ac.uk/SPARG/Staff_PLX.asp > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception [mailto:AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Laszlo Toth > Sent: 07 July 2009 15:03 > To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx > Subject: (off-topic) self-plagiarism > > Dear List, > I have a dilemma that I don't know where to turn with. I received a paper > from a journal for review. A quick search on google revealed that the > author has published the same paper (with negligible modifications) > already at least 6-7 times. Is there anything I can do besides rejecting > the paper from this journal? > Thanks, and sorry for the off-topic mail. > > Laszlo Toth > Hungarian Academy of Sciences * > Research Group on Artificial Intelligence * "Failure only begins > e-mail: tothl@xxxxxxxx * when you stop trying" > http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~tothl * > > The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this email was sent to you in error, please notify the sender and delete this email. Please direct any concerns to Infosec@xxxxxxxx > The policy is available here: http://www.derby.ac.uk/LIS/Email-Policy