Dear All, IMHO, this Is a subtle example of Hypnocracy. Doriano
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Doriano Lamba Istituto di Cristallografia Trieste Outstation Retired Senior Associate Fellow ORCID: 0000-0001-6859-7868 WoS Research ID: B-2961-2011 Cell.: 330 411 796 WhastApp: 329 261 6908 https://www.ic.cnr.it E-Mail: [email protected] Area Science Park - Basovizza, S.S. n°14, Km 163.5 I-34149 – Trieste www.cnr.it<http://www.cnr.it/> Devolvi il 5×1000 al CNR CF 80054330586 ________________________________ Da: CCP4 bulletin board <[email protected]> per conto di Kikuti Carlos <[email protected]> Inviato: giovedì 4 giugno 2026 09:10 A: [email protected] <[email protected]> Oggetto: Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic question: apparent verbatim plagiarism Marian, Maybe they are using your and other articles to fish for "clients" – people who will submit manuscripts using the @gmail.com address in the fake journal website? With the aim to make the clients pay for publication? I haven't tried, to be honest, just a suspicion. Anyways, plagiarism is bad, no matter the aim, so thank you for warning everyone. This concerns us all, and it is too easy to copy and fake stuff these days. Makes me wonder why it hasn't happened before – if it hasn't. If someone finds a solution for this kind of situation, please keep us posted. (+ I agree with Paola, and those are very frequent first and last names in Brazil) Suerte, --------------------------------------------------- Carlos KIKUTI, PhD Structural Motility Team UMR144 - CNRS - Institut Curie 12 rue Lhomond - 75005 Paris, France [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> De : CCP4 bulletin board <[email protected]> au nom de Marian Oliva <[email protected]> Répondre à : Marian Oliva <[email protected]> Date : jeudi 4 juin 2026 à 08:16 À : "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Objet : Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic question: apparent verbatim plagiarism Dear colleagues, Thank you all very much for your helpful suggestions, comments, and for taking the time to look into this matter. Following your advice, we have already contacted the Editor of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, since ACS owns the copyright of the original article and may have experience dealing with similar situations. We have also informed the Ethics Committee of our institute and are preparing a report for PubPeer so that the case is publicly documented. The comments pointing to the possibility that this may not be an isolated incident are particularly concerning. The example provided by Gareth strongly suggests that other articles in the same volume have also been copied verbatim from legitimate publications. This indicates that the problem extends far beyond a single case and may affect a large number of researchers, institutions, and publishers who are completely unaware that their work has been duplicated. I also found Pascale observation especially intriguing. If this is indeed a fake journal mimicking the identity of a legitimate one, I struggle to understand the purpose behind creating such a website and populating it with plagiarized content. What is the end goal? Generating web traffic? Advertising revenue? Creating the appearance of a legitimate journal for some later purpose? At the moment, the whole operation seems difficult to comprehend. In our case, we only became aware of the problem thanks to the librarians at our institute, who systematically monitor publications associated with our researchers and maintain our institutional databases. Without their vigilance, we would almost certainly never have discovered the duplicate publication. If, as suggested by the example identified by Gareth, multiple papers within the same volume are plagiarized, then there may be a very large number of affected authors who remain completely unaware that their work has been copied. The entire situation is quite extraordinary and, frankly, rather alarming. Thank you again for all your advice and support. Best, Marian Marian Oliva Unit for Biological, Immunological, and Chemical Drug Development Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS +34 918669485 [email protected] C/ Ramiro de Maeztu, 9. 28040-Madrid **NOTA DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD** Este correo electrónico, y en su caso los ficheros adjuntos, pueden contener información protegida para el uso exclusivo de su destinatario. Se prohíbe la distribución, reproducción o cualquier otro tipo de transmisión por parte de otra persona que no sea el destinatario. Si usted recibe por error este correo, se ruega comunicarlo al remitente y borrar el mensaje recibido. **CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE** This email communication and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the designated recipient named above. Distribution, reproduction or any other use of this transmission by any party other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender and delete all copies. El 3 jun 2026, a las 14:14, MARCHOT Pascale <[email protected]> escribió: Hello all, This so-called "Journal of Research in Health Sciences" is a fake. DOI: 10.31472/JRHS.2024.2.3 is not found in PubMed And have a look at the funny titles of, e.g., Vol 18, Issue 1 (2026)... The "real" one (with PMID, PMCID, DOI) is here: https://jrhs.umsha.ac.ir/ Best - PM ________________________________ De : CCP4 bulletin board <[email protected]> de la part de Hall, Gareth A.F. (Dr.) <[email protected]> Envoyé : mercredi 3 juin 2026 14:01 À : [email protected] Objet : Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic question: apparent verbatim plagiarism Ce mail provient de l'extérieur, restons vigilants I have had a look at another article from the Journal of Research in Health Sciences using the same volume (16) and issue number (2) as that highlighted by Marian, and it is the same story. The paper by Rejc, et al. has been copied verbatim: Effects of Oral Iododiflunisal on Hippocampal Amyloid-β Formation in a Transgenic Alzheimer’s Mouse Model: A Longitudinal Imaging Study Dr. Haruto Sato, Dr. Yuki Tanaka, Dr. Rina Kobayashi, Dr. Kenji Nakamura, Dr. Aoi Yamamoto, Dr. Daichi Fujimoto (2024) DOI: 10.31472/JRHS.2024.2.2<https://jrhsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/Vol16I2-2.pdf> Oral treatment with iododiflunisal delays beta amyloid plaque formation in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer Disease: a Longitudinal in vivo molecular imaging study L. Rejc, at al. (2020) doi.org/10.21203/rs.2.23011/v1<https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.2.23011/v1> Dr. Gareth Hall BSc MSc PhD FHEA Associate Professor Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology Division of Molecular and Cell Biology School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences College of Life Sciences Henry Wellcome Building University of Leicester | Lancaster Road | Leicester | LE1 7RH | UK t: +44 (0)116 229 7418<tel:+441162297418> e: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> w: www.le.ac.uk<http://www.le.ac.uk/> Follow us on Twitter<https://twitter.com/uniofleicester> or visit our Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/uniofleicester> page <image001.jpg> From: CCP4 bulletin board <[email protected]> on behalf of Paola Lanzoni-Mangutchi <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, 3 June 2026 at 12:45 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic question: apparent verbatim plagiarism You don't often get email from [email protected]. Learn why this is important<https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> ***CAUTION:*** This email was sent from an EXTERNAL source. Think before clicking links or opening attachments. Hi Marian, I'm sorry that you and your group have been targeted by such ridiculous misconduct. The papers are literally a copy of each other - and you can tell which one is the original by the resolution of the figures! Being Brazilian myself, I find it very odd that the authors' names are composed of a single name and a single surname. The institutions' addresses are also suspiciously incomplete - I believe people would indicate their affiliation along the lines "Hospital de Clinicas, Department of XYZ, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Unicamp" for instance. Putting together the vary suspicious over simplicity of the names and the over simplicity of their institutions, I find it hard to even track who the authors could be - making me believe that someone trying to take advantage from this paper probably failed even at this sphere. I am quite sure that all institutions mentioned: USP, UNICAMP and UFRJ have a research integrity office and you should get in touch with them. However, at this level, PubPeer seems to be a good option as well. I am also wondering if the other papers in that same magazine volume could be plagiarised? Paola ________________________________ From: CCP4 bulletin board <[email protected]> on behalf of Marko Hyvonen <[email protected]> Sent: 03 June 2026 12:14 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic question: apparent verbatim plagiarism ⚠ External sender. Take care when opening links or attachments. Do not provide your login details. Dear Marian, Sorry to hear this has happened. A shocking case of plagiarism, even the fact that they left the original corresponding authors details there. I suspect you will not get reply from the journal. Having a statement “All manuscripts are checked for plagiarism and ethical compliance.” on their website and publishing a verbatim copy of a paper is hardly reassuring of their processes. I would, in this order: Contact the “new” authors, both to ask if they know about this and, if not, to alert them in case it was done without them knowing. I suspect they have not done this but perhaps journal itself to boost its impact factor and traffic to site. I would also contact J Med Chem Editor-in-chief to let them know about this – they might offer advice as this is probably not the first time they see this and affects them too. If it seems that the “new” authors are responsible, contact their host institutions’ offices of research integrity. I know University of São Paulo has one, suspect UFRJ and UNICAMP have too. Write a note on PubPeer portal https://pubpeer.com/ , but only if do not get any traction otherwise, especially as you might name and shame innocent parties inadvertently with that. Best, Marko From: CCP4 bulletin board <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Marian Oliva Sent: 03 June 2026 11:11 To: [email protected] Subject: [ccp4bb] Off topic question: apparent verbatim plagiarism Dear CCP4 colleagues, I would like to bring to your attention a very unusual and concerning case of apparent plagiarism and to seek advice from the community on how best to proceed. Recently, we discovered that an article we originally published in 2020 in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00855) appears to have been republished in the Journal of Research in Health Sciences under a different title and with a completely different list of authors (DOI: 10.31472/JRHS.2024.2.3<https://jrhsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/Vol16I2-3.pdf>) in 2024 (https://jrhsjournal.com/volume-16-issue-2-2024/) What is particularly striking is that the overlap is not limited to concepts, text fragments, or results. The manuscript appears to reproduce, essentially verbatim the main text, paragraph by paragraph; the figures, reproduced identically; the figure legends; the experimental descriptions; the acknowledgements section and; even the name of the original corresponding author remains present in the text. In other words, apart from the title and author list, the article appears to be an exact copy of the original publication. We have already contacted the Editor of the Journal of Research in Health Sciences and provided documentation of the overlap. However, we have not yet received a response. In an attempt to understand what may have happened, I searched for the listed authors. Most appear to have ResearchGate profiles and publication records. Interestingly, the allegedly plagiarized paper does not appear among their listed publications, and none of the authors seem to have a research background related to the scientific field of the original work. This raises the possibility that the listed authors may themselves be unaware of the publication. The journal itself appears to be indexed in Medline and has been present in PubMed for several years, making the situation even more surprising. I would therefore be grateful for any advice from colleagues who may have encountered similar situations. In particular: - What additional steps would you recommend beyond contacting the journal editor? Should the matter be reported to PubMed/Medline or other indexing services at this stage? - Are there organizations or formal procedures that have proven effective in obtaining investigations and retractions in comparable cases? Any guidance or shared experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much for your time and advice. Best regards, Marian Marian Oliva Unit for Biological, Immunological, and Chemical Drug Development Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS +34 918669485 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> C/ Ramiro de Maeztu, 9. 28040-Madrid **NOTA DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD** Este correo electrónico, y en su caso los ficheros adjuntos, pueden contener información protegida para el uso exclusivo de su destinatario. Se prohíbe la distribución, reproducción o cualquier otro tipo de transmisión por parte de otra persona que no sea el destinatario. 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