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Telling the Same Tale Twice: Déjà vu and the Shades of Grey in Self-Plagiarism

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The integrity of medical and scientific publishing depends on responsible and honest practices by authors. Some of the practices that threaten the integrity of scientific publication include publishing the same paper in more than one journal (i.e. duplicate publication), presenting data from one study in multiple small papers (i.e. salami-slicing), copyright infringement, and text recycling [1]. While this subject is of vital interest to authors and investigators, as well as to journal editors and reviewers, it is also relevant to the readership of these publications. This chapter will explore and analyze examples of these practices.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Denver VA Medical Center, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, USA

    Andrea L. Suárez & Robert P. Dellavalle

  2. University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

    Jeffrey D. Bernhard

  3. Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, USA

    Robert P. Dellavalle

  4. Department of Veterans Affairs, Dermatology Service, Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Denver, CO, USA

    Robert P. Dellavalle

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  1. Brown University, Providence, 02912, Rhode Island, USA

    Lionel Bercovitch

  2. Brown University, Providence, 02912, Rhode Island, USA

    Clifford Perlis

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Suárez, A.L., Bernhard, J.D., Dellavalle, R.P. (2012). Telling the Same Tale Twice: Déjà vu and the Shades of Grey in Self-Plagiarism. In: Bercovitch, L., Perlis, C. (eds) Dermatoethics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2191-6_38

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