Annette, I'd have to look for specific examples/references, but I have seen this situation more than once. The authors create separate intros, results, and conclusions, but the methods section is as you describe. Very brief sketch of the who, what, where, but referring the reader to the previously-published article for more detailed information for this section.
In my prior life, my research was Health, so perhaps check Health Psychology or American Psychologist. Julie Julie A. Penley, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology El Paso Community College PO Box 20500 El Paso, TX 79998-0500 Office phone: (915) 831-3210 Department fax: (915) 831-2324 email: [email protected] webpage: http://www.epcc.edu/facultypages/jpenley ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 4:19 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] ethics question This is a question related to self-plagiarism. I hope Miguel is reading this! A collegue and I recently had a study published in ToP. In preparing that ms the editors wanted us to cut down the length of the article so we eliminated a research question completely. Now we want to publish that research question, and the answer to it; so we are using the same data set but analyzing it in terms of an additional variable that did not appear in the ToP article. At what point does using the same data set constitute a breach of ethics? Is it OK to reuse that data set for another, independent publication? And in that case, how much can we just refer a reader to the ToP article in terms of methodological details? Do we repeat all the methods information or do we refer back to the first article? Do people publish this way and how would you know? My colleague searched and searched the literature to see what others have done. If others have used the same data set for two publications, then they certainly did not explictly state that. Shouldn't one normally, however, state this explicitly? Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [email protected] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
