Academic temptations

First case study: claiming other researcher’s work as your own. This is a common academic temptation. You worked with a colleague. You have a collaborative paper. After some time, you take the work (or part of it) and submit it to a journal as a single author of the work. The plagiarism check identifies the problem. I had this case study several times: as an Editor-in-Chief of the Business & Management Compass (https://bi.ue-varna.bg/ojs/index.php/bmc/index), as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of another journal and as a reviewer. In all such cases, I declined the submission.

 

Second case study: Published work of author A in a hard copy journal is submitted to the Business & Management Compass journal (https://bi.ue-varna.bg/ojs/index.php/bmc/index) by author B, marking author A as a co-author. When submitting the manuscript through the Open Journal System, all co-authors get notification emails. As a result, I got the following email.

 

“Greetings

I am not aware of the manuscript submitted by author B. The paper in question is my Work and I haven't authorized author B to submit to any Journal for publication. Therefore, I call for the termination of the peer review process and withdrawal of the manuscript.

Thank you.

Best Regards”

 

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Editor-in-chief of the Business & Management Compass journal.