WIKIMEDIA, GEORGY90Two journals appear to be involved in plagiarizing scientific articles that have been published elsewhere. In one case, a publisher called Science Reuters—which puts out the journal Pharmacologia—listed papers from PLOS journals and elsewhere in the table of contents of numerous issues of its Science Reuters journal. Another publisher, Insight Knowledge, also published parts of papers in Insight Biomedical Science that appeared in PLOS ONE and the African Journal of Biochemistry Research. Researchers whose papers were in Science Reuters's table of contents say they had no idea their work was being used by the journal.
“That is distressing, because we've never submitted an article to Science Reuters,” said Mark Johnson, an associate professor at Brown University. “I'm not even aware that Science Reuters is a journal.”
Subha Ganguly, the editor-in-chief of Science Reuters, which is not affiliated with the news organization Reuters, resigned his position a mere day after being contacted by this reporter about the re-published titles. Ganguly, a researcher at West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences in Kolkata, India, said he was unaware that Science Reuters was using other journals' papers as its own. “After hearing from you about all such irregularities in publication from the Science Reuters editorial office, I am withdrawing my name permanently from the position of editor-in-chief for the 'Science Reuters' journal ...
