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Hi All What are the steps to take when one's article is (in my case, two articles are) plagiarised? I discovered an article that heavily plagiarises two of my articles. I sent emails to: - The editor of my journal - The publishing house of my journal - The editor of the offending journal - The publishing house of the offending journal - The corresponding author of the offending journal - The Rector of the university at which the corresponding author teaches The only responses I have are - from my journal and publishing house, who a looking into it. That was months ago. - from the publishing house of the offending journal who told me to contact the editor (this was after I had told them I had already contacted the editor). I replied and told them this, and they did not respond. In all cases, I sent extracts from the papers, and copies of the actual papers with the passages highlighted. The offending paper is still there, months after these emails have been sent - and every time I go into Google Scholar, I still it is listed as a recommendation for me. Aargh! What happens next? Is there some sort of public place? Does one put this kind of thing on social media? I did tweet the extracts, but without identifying the offending authors or journal, hoping that that would do something. Although there were a couple of supporting tweets in response, it had no impact. Do I tweet again, this time identifying the article, and the authors and the university? Seems very heavy-handed, but I'm really ticked off. I have to admit that part of my frustration has been that I was one of the first researchers (perhaps the first) publishing on this topic, and I struggled to get papers published on the the topic. Now that the topic is becoming a little more respected, others are climbing in - that's great, because it's a big field, but I'm ticked off at seen my initial hard stuff being now being plagiarised. (Yeah, I know, just being a grumpy old man :-) Regards Ken ------ Dr. Ken Masters Asst. Professor: Medical Informatics Medical Education & Informatics Department College of Medicine & Health Sciences SQU, Sultanate of Oman Involved in medical education? See MedEdWorld at: http://www.mededworld.org/Home.aspx AMEE Guide to the e-patient http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0142159X.2017.1324142 <http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Before-Bang-Ken-Masters/dp/1312753269> ____/\\/********\\/\\____ ************************************************************************* You are subscribed to the JISC Plagiarism mailing list. To Unsubscribe, change your subscription options, or access list archives, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/PLAGIARISM.html *************************************************************************