Annette This happens all the time on large grants in which the data collected are shared by many researchers who each have their own piece of the pie. Often a publications committee will setup a process by which the pie is spit so that different researchers don't inadvertently publish research using the same questions (or steal questions that have been earmarked for other researchers on the grant).
Anyway, you give basic details in the method section but refer to the earlier published article for the details. If the methodology is not that complicated it might be better to just describe it again in the new article (I personally like not having to dig up another article to figure out the methods of the one I'm reading). Marie **************************************************** Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology Kaufman 168, Dickinson College Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971 http://www.dickinson.edu/departments/psych/helwegm **************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 6:20 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])
