BMJ  2007;334:717-720 (7 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.39168.517234.AD

Feature

Research ethics

Duplicate publication: a bitter dispute

London

Korea's scientific community is once again under scrutiny as a row erupts about the origins of a study published in a Korean and a US journal. JonathanGornall investigates

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A bitter dispute over the authorship of a twice published medical paper has pitted a 35 year old Korean doctor against one of the most powerful players in the country's struggle for biotech supremacy. The battle is threatening to disrupt Korea's efforts to recover scientific credibility in the wake of the recent scandal over Woo-Sok Hwang's stem cell research.¹

On one side is Jeong Hwan Kim, a Korean doctor now working in Singapore. On the other is Kwang Yul Cha, a fertility specialist with important medical business interests in Korea and the United States and an emerging front runner in the race to inherit the disgraced Hwang's crown as Korea's foremost stem cell research pioneer.

Dr Kim claims a paper about premature ovarian failure that he originally published in the Korean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in January 2004² was translated and republished in the American journal Fertility and Sterility . . . [Full text of this article]

Origins

Duplicate publication

Disputed history

Twists of evolution

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