Duplicate Publication and Simultaneous Submission

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How to avoid Duplicate Publication and
Simultaneous Submission?
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• Here, we discuss the two common and unethical
  publishing practices duplicate publication and
  simultaneous submission, and how to avoid them
  with your manuscript.

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1) Duplicate Publication

• When you publish a new paper similar to a
  published paper by another author or yours
  without acknowledging the source and without
  getting the permission of the original author, it
  is called a duplicate publication. Even if you
  change the title or the abstract, the data and
  the results remain the same.

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Why is duplicate publication a problem?

• It violates the copyright for the paper.
• Researchers who study the subject may count the
  same set of results twice, and thus distort the
  empirical evidence. Since empirical studies form
  the base of many health policies, it becomes a
  serious problem.
• Republication of your own work without
  attribution surmounts to self-plagiarism.
• It leads to the wastage of editorial and review
  resources.
• Republication of the same work unjustly takes up
  the limited journal space and denies other
  authors right to publish their work.

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What do journals say about the issue? 

• The editorial committees of the academic journals
  instruct the authors do not submit the papers or
  variations of papers already published elsewhere.
  
• They design stringent policies and ask the
  authors to send copies of older, related articles
  along with their submitted paper.

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However, republication is allowed in some cases
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Despite these exceptions, authors must adhere to
the following guidelines
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Dos and donts to avoid duplicate publication

• Do not replicate content from any of your other
  published papers.
• Do not offer preliminary reports about the
  published papers to any company without the
  permission of the journal.
• When quoting data from your published work,
  include only a few sentences, and place the text
  in quotation marks and cite the source.
• If you write more than one manuscript by using a
  single dataset, ensure
• Each manuscript addresses separate and important
  questions
• You cross-reference the manuscripts
• Inform the journal editors about this in a cover
  letter
• While submitting your paper to the journal
  editor, provide copies of your published and
  related papers for complete transparency.

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2) Simultaneous Submission

• The practice of submitting the same manuscript
  to two or more journals at the same time without
  informing the respective scientific journal
  editors is known as simultaneous or multiple or
  dual submission.

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Why is simultaneous submission a problem?
1) The journals consider simultaneous submission
as unethical because

• If more than one journal publishes the paper, it
  can lead to a copyright dispute.
• Since two publication houses will carry out the
  same task, it is a waste of academic and
  scientific resources.

2) However, simultaneous submission is acceptable
in following cases

• When the editors of the two or more journals
  agree to publish the paper simultaneously or
  jointly in the larger interest of the society.
• When scientific conferences allow the authors to
  simultaneously submit their papers to other
  meetings with overlapping submission periods.

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Dos and donts for the authors 

• Do not submit the same manuscript to more than
  one journal.
• If you wish to submit a paper that is under
  consideration at one journal to another journal
• Get a written consent from your co-authors.
• Inform the first journal editor asking about the
  paper withdrawal.
• Do not submit unless you get a formal
  notification from the first journal editor
  regarding the paper withdrawal.
• Submit this notification to the second journal
  along with your paper.

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• If you have written two related papers and wish
  to submit them to two different journals

• Disclose the details of each paper to both the
  journals.
• Inform both the editors that you have a similar
  paper under review at another journal (even if
  they are in different languages).
• Enclose the copies of both the papers along with
  your submission.

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Conclusion

• Thus, duplicate publication and simultaneous
  submission are a serious offence and you can
  spoil your research career by indulging in such
  practices.
• We recommend you to contact our
  professional journal publication services experts
  to understand and follow ethical submission
  practices for the welfare of the society and your
  career.

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