![]() ![]() As this investigation is still ongoing, we are unable to disclose how the corresponding author of the retracted papers may have obtained unpublished material.Īccording to Rupali Bhardwaj, she contacted the journal when she saw the paper. The EiC requested to retract three articles for which there was evidence that material had been plagiarized. We conducted an extensive investigation and found evidence that the peer-review process for a number of articles in MTAP may have been manipulated. Three researchers whose manuscripts were rejected from MTAP notified us that published articles in MTAP had been plagiarized from their unpublished work. All three papers were submitted within one week in December, 2017, and accepted between six and 15 days later.Ī representative of Springer Nature, which publishes the journal, told us: We’ve emailed Xiong, as well as journal editor Borko Furht at Florida Atlantic University, but haven’t heard back. The online version of this article contains the full text of the retracted article as electronic supplementary material. Authors Yuan Li, Ruxi Xiang, and Ju Zhu have not responded to any correspondence from the editor or publisher about this retraction. Author Chao Xiong does not agree to this retraction. This article is retracted at the request of Editor-in-Chief because its content has been duplicated from an unpublished manuscript authored by Rupali Bhardwaj without permission. Here’s a sample notice, for “Image-based reversible data hiding algorithm toward big multimedia data:” (All of the papers cover similar topics and were submitted around the same time, so it’s unclear why Xiong didn’t object to one retraction.) As the notices state, Xiong agrees with one of the the retractions, but not the other two. There are four authors in common to all three manuscripts, but only one - corresponding author Chao Xiong of the Changzhou Institute of Technology in China - has responded to any queries from MTAP, according to the retraction notices. ![]() Of course, one possibility is that an author was a peer reviewer of the manuscripts, and stole the unpublished material - something that unfortunately does happen. So imagine how she felt when, days after the paper was rejected, she saw the journal had published a plagiarized version of the paper by a group of different authors.Ĭlearly, something went very awry here - especially since the journal, Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP), has retracted three papers by the same group of authors, all of which plagiarized from unpublished manuscripts by other people. When a researcher submitted a manuscript to a journal about multimedia tools, she was frustrated to wait 13 months for the journal to make a decision - only to have it reject the paper outright. ![]()
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