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Do you imagine that someone willing to blatantly steal a research paper and publish it as his own would be deterred by an NDA? Also an author does not have con
by dpark 10y ago
Do you imagine that someone willing to blatantly steal a research paper and publish it as his own would be deterred by an NDA?
Also an author does not have contact or control over peer reviewers and typically no way to demand an NDA.
- kkirsche 10y agoDeterred? No. But I do think it would add valuable ammunition for legal repercussions.
- wbhart 10y agoIt's not at all difficult to prove copyright infringement of a paper submitted for peer review. The editors will have a copy of the paper and its submission will be date stamped in the peer review submission system. That's simply not the issue here. What happened is the reviewer submitted substantially the same manuscript to another journal, hoping no one would notice. The difficulty isn't in remedying or proving copyright infringement, but noticing it!
- robotresearcher 10y agoThe publisher has already sent the original author a formal receipt for the manuscript, and a keeps a dated copy of the letter to the plagiarist asking for a review. This has been standard practice for a couple of hundred years, and is well understood legally.