J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2001;121:1029-1030
© 2001 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery
Consensus statement on submission and publication of manuscripts
Increasing problems of duplicate and fraudulent submissions and publications have prompted the undersigned editors of surgical journals to support these overall principles of publication.
Duplicate submission and publication
In general, if a manuscript has been peer-reviewed and published, any subsequent publication is duplication. Exceptions to this general rule may be as follows:
- Prior publication in meeting program abstract booklets or expanded abstracts such as those published by the Surgical Forum of the American College of Surgeons or Transplantation Proceedings. However, these must be referenced in the final manuscript.
- A manuscript which extends an original database (a good rule might be expansion by 50% or more) or which analyzes the original database in a different way in order to prove or disprove a different hypothesis. Previous manuscripts reporting data from the original database must, however, be referenced.
- Manuscripts which have been published originally in . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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