I have a project that produced so much data that a complete presentation of the results would be very much longer than that which any journal would be willing to publish in a single article. What are my options other than dividing it into smaller portions to be published separately?
Cheers, Karl W. -----Original Message----- From: Claudia Stanny [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:08 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Can you plagiarize your own work? Publication rules about duplication generally apply to the data and findings reported (except for review and theoretical articles that don't present original data). In this case, each manuscript reported different data and different findings. In this sense, they are independent. Is the unique contribution of the article the findings or the literature review supporting the question posed? It seems a bit odd that the research questions posed in each article were supported by identical literature reviews, since the questions were different. I can understand some overlap, but not identical literature reviews. Perhaps the commonalities in the introductions were overstated? Another issue might be the chopping up of a study and piecemeal publication of the findings to get more publication count "bang" for the effort. Editors of journals discourage authors from chopping up work that might be better presented as a larger manuscript. But in some cases, questions related to different questions and audiences are deliberately interleaved. It might be a legitimate choice to present these finding separately. In either case, although we might object to the practice of piecemeal publication, I don't think it is plagiarism. Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. Director, Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Associate Professor, Psychology University of West Florida Pensacola, FL 32514 - 5751 Phone: (850) 857-6355 or 473-7435 e-mail: [email protected] CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/cutla/ Personal Web Pages: http://uwf.edu/cstanny/website/index.htm --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
