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With multiple people working on a paper, some junior, some senior, tight deadlines, and last minute changes, honest mistakes are certainly possible. Paper figu
by JR1427 3y ago
With multiple people working on a paper, some junior, some senior, tight deadlines, and last minute changes, honest mistakes are certainly possible.
Paper figures are usually hand assembled using Adobe Illustrator or similar, which can be error prone.
For instance, placeholder images might have been added during drafting, and they were not later replaced.
- noobermin 3y agoSo my assumption is the figures must be vital data filled figures. If they're just diagramatic ones (fig 1 type) that are similar amongst articles from the same group on thr same line of work then it's probably plagiarism by the letter of the law but not the spirit of the law.
- JR1427 3y agoEven figures with images are typically assembled in Illustrator. You past in the image of your cells or western blot or whatever, and then add all the labels etc.