Hong Sung Tae
Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
J Korean Med Sci. 2017 Feb;32(2):183-185. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2017.32.2.183.
I have encountered 3 cases of plagiarism as editor of the Journal of Korean Medical Science (JKMS). The first one was copying figures from a JKMS article without citation, the second was submission of a copied manuscript of a published article to JKMS, and the third was publishing a copied JKMS article in another journal. The first and third cases violated copyrights of JKMS, but the violating journals made no action on the misconduct. The second and third cases were slightly modified copies of the source articles but similarity check by the Crosscheck could not identify the text overlap initially and after one year reported 96% overlap for the second case. The similarity of the third case was reported 3%. The Crosscheck must upgrade its system for better reliable screening of text plagiarism. The copy of the second case was committed by a corrupt Chinese editing company and also by some unethical researchers. In conclusion, plagiarism still threatens the trustworthiness of the publishing enterprises and is a cumbersome burden for editors of scholarly journals. We require a better system to increase the vigilance and to prevent the misconduct.
作为《韩国医学科学杂志》（JKMS）的编辑，我遇到了3起抄袭事件。第一起是未引用而抄袭JKMS一篇文章中的图表；第二起是将已发表文章的抄袭稿件提交给JKMS；第三起是在另一家期刊上发表抄袭的JKMS文章。第一起和第三起事件侵犯了JKMS的版权，但涉事期刊未对这些不当行为采取任何行动。第二起和第三起事件是对原文进行了轻微修改的稿件，但Crosscheck最初未能识别出文本重叠，一年后报告第二起事件的文本重叠率为96%。第三起事件的相似度报告为3%。Crosscheck必须升级其系统，以便更可靠地筛查文本抄袭。第二起事件的抄袭行为是由一家腐败的中国编辑公司以及一些不道德的研究人员所为。总之，抄袭仍然威胁着出版企业的可信度，对学术期刊编辑来说是一个沉重的负担。我们需要一个更好的系统来提高警惕并防止这种不当行为。
