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A Proposal to Detect the Double Submission of a Manuscript Sent for Review

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Along with the rapid growth of editorial systems and publishers, the number of research articles is increasing, which creates a need for an effective dissemination strategy. Researchers commonly use editorial systems in a candid manner. However, when researchers concurrently submit the same contribution in more than one editorial system, it is considered unethical. In this paper, we propose a novel approach called DeMSum for detecting such duplicate submissions. DeMSum verifies a manuscript (MS) by processing the MS attributes that are accessed through the editorial system. To the best of our knowledge, DeMSum is the first system to address the double submission issue, thus enabling the use of diverse editorial systems for MS review. We implemented a prototype, and our evaluation of the prototype produced excellent results.

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  1. College of Arts and Science, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia

    Manjur Kolhar, Abdalla Alameen & Safar Bin Bkhit AlMudara

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Kolhar, M., Alameen, A. & AlMudara, S.B.B. A Proposal to Detect the Double Submission of a Manuscript Sent for Review. Sci Eng Ethics 24, 1315–1329 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-017-9958-3

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