BMJ  2007;334:925 (5 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.39202.589086.DB

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Journal withdraws paper on grounds of prior publication but avoids issue of plagiarism

Jonathan Gornall

London

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After more than a year of deliberation the journal of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine is to withdraw a Korean paper at the centre of a dispute about authorship and plagiarism (BMJ 2007;334:717-20, 7 Apr doi: 10.1136/bmj.39168.517234.AD), solely on the grounds that it had been published previously in another journal.

In a statement issued last week the board of Fertility and Sterility made no reference to the allegations of perjury and plagiarism that had been made by its editor in chief in the LA Times two months earlier. On 18 February Alan DeCherney had told the newspaper, "I'm sure that it's plagiarism," and said he would be recommending to his editorial board that all the listed authors be banned from publishing in Fertility and Sterility for three years (www.latimes.com, 18 Feb, "Credit for U.S. journal article at issue," www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-research18feb18,0,6268481.story?coll=la-headlines-california).

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