A Claim of Prior Discovery by a Reviewer
Author(s):
Caroline Whitbeck
As the editor of J.AAA you ask Prof. Sharp to review a manuscript submitted to your journal by Prof. Wright, because you know that Sharp works in the same area.
Sharp takes the full time allowed for review of Wright's article and, at the end of the review period, sends a letter recommending that J.AAA reject the work by Wright, on the grounds that it is not novel. Sharp claims that it is simply a repeat of the work that Sharp has published in the J.BBB, but Sharp does not give a full citation of that work.
What do you do?
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Caroline Whitbeck
"A Claim of Prior Discovery by a Reviewer"
Online Ethics Center for Engineering
9/9/2006 1:51:21 PM
National Academy of Engineering
Accessed: Thursday, November 20, 2008
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