The Experience of Detecting a Case of Plagiarism in Hepatitis Monthly

authors:

avatar Seyyed Mohammad Miri 1 , * , avatar Shahed Rezamand 2 , avatar Zahra Goodarzi 2

Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Disease, Baqiyatallah Hospital (Ground Floor, West Wing), info@hep.ir, Tehran, IR.Iran
Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Disease, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR.Iran

how to cite: Miri S, Rezamand S, Goodarzi Z. The Experience of Detecting a Case of Plagiarism in Hepatitis Monthly. Hepat Mon. 2008;8(3): 225-229. 

Abstract

Plagiarism is substantially duplicating another article without acknowledgement. Academic scientists, commercial or political motivations are the main probable reasons for this detrimental problem. We introduce a case of plagiarism in Hepatitis Monthly and present some valuable ways to tackle this complicated problem since we believe that prevention of duplicate publication can be achieved through increasing editors' awareness and reviewers' knowledge.

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