[AISWorld] Unauthorized Dual Publication

[Dijkman, R.M.]

Dear Prashant,

This seems to have happened to other papers as well. If you check the other papers in the issue in which you were published, they are also copied from DSS. Compare the contents of volume 3 issue 11 of this journal:
http://www.irjbas.sciencerecord.com/archive/2011/3%2811%29/archive.html
with those of volume 51 number 3 of DSS:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01679236/51/3

Other issues of this journal also appear to have been copied from DSS.

Probably Elsevier should be made aware of this situation, so they can take appropriate action.

Best regards,

Remco Dijkman


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dr.ir. R.M. Dijkman (Remco)
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From: aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org [mailto:aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of Prashant Palvia
Sent: vrijdag 23 maart 2012 20:14
To: AISWorld
Subject: [AISWorld] Unauthorized Dual Publication

Dear Colleagues,

I wanted to bring to the attention of the IS community something that happened last week which has us totally baffled.

On March 10, 2012, I received a message from a faculty member in South East European University which informed us about a double publication of the same article.  He was absolutely right. We checked and found that the article "Contextual Constraints in Media Choice: Beyond Information Richness" that we (Palvia, P., Pinjani, P., Cannoy, S.D., and Jacks, T) published in Decision Support  Systems (Vol. 51, 2011, pp. 657-670) was also published in the International Research Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences (Vol 3, Issue 11, Nov 2011).

We were appalled by this dual publication as we had submitted our article only to DSS and never to the International Research Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences or any other journal for that matter.  So we contacted the editors of DSS.  The Managing Editor of DSS told us that she had no knowledge of it and referred us to their Publisher, Elsevier.   Elsevier came back and told us the following:

"As for the other journal, International Research Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, this is not an Elsevier journal so we can rule out the possibility of your paper being submitted to that journal by someone from Elsevier. We would suggest that you contact the Editorial Office of the said journal and clarify with them this matter. They can confirm who submitted your paper to their journal."

At this point, I went to the publisher (The USA Science Record) web site of the International Research Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences http://www.journals.sciencerecord.com/ and found that they have several journals including this one in question.   For this journal, they have many names on the editorial board but no name for an editor-in-chief.  On March 16, I wrote to their general email address asking them about this dual publication and the name of the editor-in-chief.  I have not received any response from them.  In order to investigate further, I also wrote to three names on the editorial board but have not received any response.

At this point, we have reached the end of the rope and don't know what to do next.

I write to the AIWorld list for several reasons:


1.       My co-authors and I have no knowledge of the second publication and completely dissociate ourselves from this second publication.

2.       Does anyone have a logical explanation for this dual publication?

3.       Has it happened to others?

4.       If there is no logical explanation, then obviously it violates ethics and perhaps even some laws.  What can be done to stop this practice?  Should AIS get involved?

5.       What should we do now?

Prashant Palvia, Ph.D., Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Bryan School of Business and Economics
424 Bryan Building, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA



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